Two taxpayers who graduated from CSU San Bernardino have filed suit against the CSU and Chancellor Reed, challenging the recent executive pay increases. The suit argues that the retroactive pay increases are unconstitutional and an illegal gift of public funds, and seeks to have the money returned.
California Faculty Association President Lillian Taiz has an article in the California Progress Report on the executive pay raises, the lawsuit, and AB 1413:
The plan to raise executive pay by 40% over the next four years and the move to make it retroactive so that executives already earning over a quarter of a million dollars a year is just another example of a CSU Administration that is running the CSU more like Enron than a public institution. Plain and simple – the CSU Administration doesn’t make decisions based on what is best for students and faculty, they make decisions that benefit themselves financially.
Anyone who has picked up a newspaper over the past several years is likely to be well versed in the laundry list of executive abuses and scandals that have plagued the CSU system. The Administration handed out millions of dollars in six-figure deals for “no show” consulting gigs and for departing executives (transition pay). One campus president took a job in Paris while another system executive went to a new position in Atlanta. Between them they pocketed over $330,000.
Media coverage of the lawsuit:
- Suit claims CSU officials' retroactive pay hikes illegal (San Francisco Chronicle)
- CSU graduates sue chancellor, trustees for return of retroactive pay (Press-Enterprise)
- Two Grads Sue Over CSU Executives' Retroactive Raises (Sign On San Diego)
- CSU system raises face legal challenges (Eye Out For You)
- California State University Executive Pay Hikes -- Illegal Gift of Public Funds -- Another Reason AB 1413 Needs to be Signed by the Governor (California Progress Report)
- Lawsuit Targets CSU Executive Pay (CFA Headlines) [PDF]
- Cal State's High Rollers (Los Angeles Times)
- Students, Faculty, Staff Unite to Reform Higher Education Governance and End Executive Pay Scandals (California Chronicle)
- Students Demand Hearings on UC, CSU Executive Pay (NBC 11 - San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland)
- California Governor Ponders Bills on Tighter Rules for Paying University Executives (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- CSU execs paid only what we will allow (North County Times)
- Top Cash for CSU Executives (Golden Gate XPress Online)
- HSU's Richmond gets salary hike (Eureka Reporter)
- CMA employees angry over raise (Vallejo Times Herald)
- Trustees vote to give Gonzalez, 27 other CSU execs pay raises (State Hornet)
- CSU executives given pay raises, raising ire of faculty and students (Sign On San Diego)
- CSU Trustees approve executive pay raises (Daily Sundial)
- Bill to Clarify Salaries (Daily Aztec)
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University administrators are nearly always undereducated and mendacious self-serving plutocrats.
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