Executive Compensation

Chancellor Reed

KCBS/KCAL, the Los Angeles CBS affiliate, aired an investigation on Monday revealing more than $750,000 in questionable spending by the California State University Chancellor's Office.

Faculty take fight to Trustees

The CSU Trustees were meeting inside today, first in closed session to discuss “executive personnel matters” and collective bargaining. Then they met in committee on yet another new policy to give more raises to campus presidents, now from university auxiliaries.

CSU Presidential Perk Carousel

Even as raises for CSU presidents (who are making lateral moves to new campuses) get panned widely, the “CSU Presidential Perk Carousel” continued to turn.

Executive Pay Increases

Bowing to years of pressure to curb university executive compensation hikes, the CSU Trustees at their meeting on Wednesday adopted a last-minute change to a new pay policy for campus presidents.

State Senator Ted Lieu has taken action to protect vital CSU funding. He is speaking out against a possible change to the CSU’s executive pay policy that would put more money in executives’ pockets and less money in the classroom.

Protest at CSU Board of Trustees Meeting

In an unprecedented development, the CSU Board of Trustees have cancelled their meeting – originally slated for Monday – in which they were set to take up executive compensation and hiring practices for the wealthiest one percent of Administrators.

CFA and the Chancellor’s Office went head-to-head Tuesday morning over whether the people who run the CSU must tell the public in advance when the doors are opened to higher pay and perks for top executives.

The judge in the case ruled with the Chancellor, accepting the argument that while salary ranges may be important to some employees, they are a meaningless and bureaucratic matter in the case of executives.

As the CSU Board of Trustees’ Special Committee on Executive Compensation prepares to meet again this week, questions have emerged about the ethics of using foundation dollars to enhance already exorbitant presidential salaries.

Last week the Legislative Analyst's Office called into question CSU's decision to supplement the new president of San Diego State’s $350,000 state pay with $50,000 from the campus' nonprofit foundation.

Campus Academic Senates are taking a stand a against the proposed revision to the Trustees Policy for the Selection of Presidents that would eliminate campus visits by the final slate of candidates for a CSU campus presidency.

Last month, the CSU Trustees Special Committee on Presidential Selection and Compensation recommended changes to the selection process for campus presidents that could eliminate the only avenue faculty, staff, and students have to interact with candidates before they are hired.