Category: life in the csu
Meet the New Boss…
After a long period of darkness the CSU is preparing to welcome a new Chancellor. Timothy White will take the reins from Charlie Reed in December. Charlie was a common target for lifeinthecsu over t... Read More
The Magical Money Merry-Go-Round
Next week the CSU Board of Trustees will likely vote to increase the pay of the President of the Northridge Campus. Dianne Harrison arrives at CSUN from the CSU Monterrey Bay campus where, as presiden... Read More
Putt’s Law: It’s not just a bad idea, it’s The Law
How can an organization be so completely and utterly ineffective? Working in the CSU it is a question that I ask myself on a regular basis. I have worked at several universities that evidenced various... Read More
George Will is Right! Well, kind of…
In a sign of the coming apocalypse I agree with the general tenor of George Will’s column in The Washington Post today. Will’s general complaint is about the trend toward administrative bl... Read More
Blowing it–in Slow Motion
With Charlie Reed on his way out the CSU Board of Trustees has an opportunity to redeem itself. When Reed was hired it was done entirely in secret. The results of that process were a disaster. Reed wa... Read More
Hire the Next CSU Chancellor in the Open
When Charlie Reed was hired as the Chancellor of the CSU in 1998 it was done in complete secrecy. The Brain Trust running the CSU at the time argued that secrecy was essential to recruiting the best p... Read More
‘Dear Leader’ Charlie Reed Retires–Reaction Mixed
News of the Chancellor’s resignation arrived on my phone as I sat at a conference session in Athens, Georgia. Sitting with a CSU colleague we high-fived each other, the audible slap causing a br... Read More
How Many Administrators Does it Take to Educate a Student in the CSU?
It sounds like the beginning of a joke. I suppose that, in a way, it is. As a matter of fact universities rely on administrators to do the sort of work that faculty cannot do. We are not able, qualifi... Read More
