Salary trends at the California State University.

[Lionel Mandrake]

CSU Students and faculty have suffered, but administrators (who call themselves "managers&quot have done very well over the last ten years, according to Parts 1 and 2 of "Race to the Bottom: CSU's 10-year Failure to Fund its Core Mission", published by the California Faculty Association (CFA).

Here is an excerpt from Part 1:

When compared to other university systems around the country, and to every education segment in California, the CSU stands out for its unparalleled failure to improve faculty salaries or even to protect them from the ravages of inflation. As this paper details, administrators at other colleges and universities inside and outside California dealt with similar circumstances, made different decisions, and produced different outcomes.

Case in point: Over the past 10 years, while the average CSU faculty salary on every campus lost purchasing power, the average University of California faculty salary on each UC campus increased in real dollars. At UC San Francisco, the average faculty salary from 2004 and 2013 (adjusted for inflation) rose $16,138, while at San Francisco State, the average faculty salary lost $9,748.

Here is an excerpt from Part 2:

over at least the last decade, CSU administrators, like many corporate executives, have consistently and vigorously prioritized those at the top of the organizational hierarchy, while others in the CSU have been left to languish. At the same time that faculty salaries have plummeted in terms of purchasing power and student fees and student debt have skyrocketed, those at the top have done very well.

Read more:
http://www.calfac.org/race-to-the-bottom

And stay tuned for Parts 3 and 4 of this series.

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1. Administrative bloat

And countless assistant and associate deans that make six figure salaries and don't really DO anything important.

[Lionel Mandrake]

2. Administrators do something important, but nothing good.

Diverting resources to themselves, like a cancer, they sap the life of the university.