CSU Students Face Cutbacks But Not Campus Presidents

[The Northerner]

It's no wonder that college students and their families in California are disgusted.

Just a day after the 23-campus California State University system announced that it is planning to freeze enrollment next spring due to budget woes, university trustees are poised to grant a 10 percent pay increase to incoming presidents at the Fullerton and East Bay campuses.

Talk about bad timing.

New CSU Fullerton President Mildred Garcia is in line for a $324,500 salary. Her predecessor made $295,000.

It's the same for new CSU East Bay President Leroy Morishita. His salary will be $303,660, which is 10 percent above what the previous executive made. That doesn't include a housing and car allowance, of course. Those are extra.

Read more: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/prop-zero/CSU-Students-Face-Cutbacks-But-Not-Campus-Presidents-143511536.html

How ridiculous is it that the CSU presidents receive higher salaries while the students attending pay ever-increasing tuition fees and incoming students are less likely to be accepted?

[mike_c]

1. faculty and staff salaries have been flat for YEARS, dammit....

[eissa]

2. It's the privatization of public universities

Offer the CEOs more to attract "better" talent, and have them implement a corporate model of top-heavy administrations, while gutting employees and services, and particularly the unions. Why hasn't Gov. Brown fired Chancellor Reed yet?!