Join your fellow CFA members next week for our rally on November 18 at the CSU Board of Trustees (BOT) Long Beach meeting. Let CSU trustees know that their behavior prioritizing CSU executives over faculty and students cannot continue: register to attend here and register for public comment here (virtual comment available)! . 

This rally and meeting are critical for our union to show up and show out, given the lack of financial accountability at the CSU! First, the CSU BOT will discuss giving raises to CSU executives. Second, they intend to remove a key policy that currently prevents them from increasing an incoming president’s pay by more than 10% above the previous president’s salary. 

It’s clear: Chancellor García and the CSU BOT are explicitly asserting that their priorities are to increase presidents’ salaries—which already average half a million dollars annually, not including their housing and automobile allowances. To help legitimize the move, outside consultants will be presenting their own curated reports to the BOT that conveniently justify exorbitant salaries. 

This is the same group of trustees, including Chancellor García, who claim they have no money to continue funding instruction of key programs. This is the same BOT who have made drastic recommendations for mass faculty and staff layoffs, increased workload demands, and program closures—all while increasing student fees and tuition costs. 

While the chancellor continues to sell this tragic story that there’s never any budget for students, faculty, or staff, she personally profited handsomely. In 2024, she made $1,062,000 when factoring in her deferred payment and outside pay as vice chair on the Educational Testing Service Board of Trustees. CSU vice presidents hired within the last fiscal year made on average $314,000. Compare this to the roughly $71,000 average pay that faculty receive—an average that appears higher after management laid off hundreds of lower time-base lecturers who made significantly less. (You can read more about the ongoing cycle of executive salary increases here.) 

Not only do we need to protest any executive salary increase that may happen during this meeting, we must also ensure that the chancellor spends the 0% interest state loan in a way that makes a difference for our stakeholders. The chancellor has entirely disregarded our requests to use the money to restore programs and premature jobs, though we have been demanding this for months. 

In an email to all faculty sent in October, García stated that she would use the funds to provide one-time bonuses for CSU employees, but a one-time bonus falls significantly short of adequately compensating faculty for their labor. It is not calculated in our base salary nor does it change our pension basis. 

Whenever managers have offered one-time bonuses in the past, they’ve been used as a tactic for refusing to offer real salary increases at the bargaining table. Our salaries must keep pace with inflation and more. One-time compensation does not build lasting change; base pay increases do. 

Don’t let the chancellor and BOT sell us short! They are more than eager to give presidents and other higher up managers an obscene amount of money but are unwilling to even pay us a fair wage. Our fight belongs at the bargaining table, not through a petty e-mail where she tells us what she wants to happen. 

That money must be spent on instruction and restoring jobs. 

We are CFA! Our workplace won’t organize for us: this is why we need you at the BOT rally next week. Sign up here to let us know how you can support your colleagues on November 18th and register here if you wish to offer public comment. 

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