1. The CSU system is not structured or well administered. It desperately needs an overhaul. Right now it functions like the 1950s Soviet politburo. Swapping chancellors doesn’t help.
2. The CSU (and the UC) need stable funding from the state much higher than current levels.
There IS steady funding. But the admin funnels it to BS like construction and their own salaries rather than education. This meeting was NOT mostly about the CSU but about the horrendous “non plan” announced by an interim president and a call to action to save the university and the county from it
I’m an SSU alum and have been a professor in the CSU system for over twenty years. There has never been stable funding from the state- never, neither under republicans and democrats. You are correct about the way the chancellors office and individual
campus administrators spend the money though.
I think every body commenting here has some ties to the CSU. CA has increased budget for the CSU by 5 % for the next 5 years. It doesn’t mean it is enough. Especially since the Chancellor’s Office spends as much as a whole CSU campus. That is obscene and it is not the legislators’ fault
Not sure where you are getting this information from, but there is an 8% across the board cut this year. Also many years when there were supposed to be increases, the increase gets removed in the May revised budget. CSU is chronically underfunded, and IMHO chronically mismanaged.
The 5%increase will not apply this academic year. And yes I do know about the infamous 8%cut. What I do not know is why the CSU admin does not implement austerity measures on itself but only on faculty
I watched the meeting. The interim president meant well but she followed the CSU party line. The legislators all seemed to care but didn’t really address the two BIG issues:
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2. The CSU (and the UC) need stable funding from the state much higher than current levels.
campus administrators spend the money though.