Category: Politics
Limiting CSU Presidents’ Pay: Proposed SB 755
News comes today of SB 755. Sponsored by Senator Ted Lieu the proposal would cap CSU Campus Presidents’ pay at 150% of the salary of a California State Supreme Court Justice. If the proposal p... Read More
If I Were a Middle-Class White Guy
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. –Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Read More
Five Best Books on Congress
Inadvertently my string of “best of” lists continues today. Earlier this year Choice magazine asked me for a list of the five books about Congress that I would like my students to read bef... Read More
Why Students and Faculty Rebel
The CSU Board of Trustees recently cancelled their December meeting. At the December meeting the Board was expected to consider recommendations regarding executive [read: campus presidents’] com... Read More
VIDEO: Cornell West Addresses CFA Strikers at CSU East Bay
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8T1B6vafe8]... Read More
Charlie Reed’s Theory of Leadership
Students, faculty, staff, and community deserve the very best leadership I can possibly find, and you’re not going to get that for nothin’. –Charlie Reed, Chancellor, California Stat... Read More
Not In Our Town National Week of Action: Communities stand together against hate
Hate crimes are a unique, and uniquely destructive form of violence. Hate crime victims are targeted because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. They become victims for simply bein... Read More
This is Not a Game
House GOPers met this morning to discuss the Boehner Plan to raise the debt ceiling. During this pep talk in which Boehner angrily exhorted his caucus to “get their asses in line,” Represe... Read More
A Little Kvetching about the Debt Ceiling Debate
I am a political scientist, so I hope you excuse my momentary detour from kvetching about the California State University system and indulge a detour into the world of politics. As the country heads t... Read More- 2 of 3
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