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.

The decision comes amidst palpable student, faculty and staff anger over how the system is being managed by CSU Chancellor Charles Reed.

“The fact that the Trustees were even scheduled to meet about executive compensation just 19 days after hiking student fees to record levels is absurd,” said CFA President Lillian Taiz, a professor of history at CSU Los Angeles.

She continued, “The leadership of the CSU is completely out of touch with the people the CSU serves. Students are paying more for less and everyone is fed up with the Chancellor’s obsessive ‘executive first’ management approach.

“These are funds that should be used to help serve our students – not executive salaries. If the CSU’s so-called leaders think they can cancel this meeting and take it on in January without anyone noticing, they are badly mistaken. CSU students and faculty have seen enough and will hold the Board accountable for their misplaced priorities.”

The Chancellor and Board of Trustees have come under fire for overreacting to student protests and for ordering an overly aggressive police response – including pepper spray – to disperse student protestors. During the same meeting, the Trustees held a vote on a controversial fee hike in a closed session where most faculty, students and members of media were not allowed witness the vote.

View a video of police pepper spraying students and placing a baton in a glass door, which eventually led to the door shattering.

A coalition of CSU students – including members of Students for Quality Education (SQE) –condemned the Trustees’ actions and have launched a petition urging a revote on the fee hike.

The CSU Labor Council – a coalition of unions for all the represented employees in the system – also issued a statement on the matter.