CSU Trustees still don't get it; neither does legislature Wednesday, 12 September 2012 01:16 Written by The Valley Chronicle Thomas D. ELIAS ‐‐‐‐‐‐ SoCal Focus It became clear early last spring that the trustees of the 23‐campus California State University system just don't get it. Shuffling administrators from school to school and bringing in the occasional outsider, they began giving new college presidents salaries far higher than what predecessors had received. The rationale for this, as it often is in government, was that CSU had to match what other potential employers might be willing to pay. Over a period of weeks, the trustees voted tens of thousands of dollars more to new presidents at five campuses than chiefs of those schools ever before received. Bleats of protest arose because the raises were coupled with tuition increases of just under 10 percent, bringing Cal State tuition to $7,017, a 37 percent increase from the $4,440 it was in November, 2010, less than two years ago (more details of historic Cal State tuitions are in this report: http://www.calstate.edu/Budget/fybudget/2011‐2012/documentation/13‐historical‐suf‐rates.shtml).
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