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CSU chancellor to faculty: No pay raise
At right, California State University Chancellor, Charles Reed.
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CSU chancellor to faculty: No pay raise
CSU chancellor to faculty: No pay raise
Three days before a planned faculty strike at two campuses, California State University’s chancellor reiterated in a teleconference this morning that the university system can’t afford to offer professors a pay raise.
In stalled contract talks the California Faculty Association has requested a quarter-percent pay raise for faculty at the system’s 23 campuses. University Chancellor Charles Reed said that translates to $20 million a year.
"The only way that we could do that would be to take it from students in the sense that we would have to divert the money from classes and sections and offer fewer classes and sections to students," Reed said.
In protest, the faculty association is moving forward with a one-day strike this Thursday at Cal State Dominguez Hills in south L.A. County and Cal State East Bay in northern California.
Reed said he believes most professors at those campuses will show up to work. Don’t count on it, the California Faculty Association responded. It plans to bus professors from other campuses to support the strike. Cal State is stepping up security on the campuses, the chancellor said, but the system hasn’t made plans to hire substitute professors if faculty don’t show up to work.
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