In an act of supreme irony TIAA-CREF last week awarded CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed the 2012 TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence, “one of the most prestigious honors in academic...Read More
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
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
Oh it just could not last, could it? On Tuesday I posted a list of my top 10 favorite albums of all time. It was an attempt to divorce myself from the idiocy of the CSU leadership. I tried. But now co...Read More
“This is a critical time in our nation’s history, and our future is not assured. We have to work at it, and that work most certainly includes more and better civic learning” Les Fran...Read More
Outsourcing. It is ubiquitous in the private sector. Low skill jobs are shipped to low wage countries to increase the bottom line for corporations. Outsourcing is also common in the public sector. For...Read More
It seems that the prevailing philosophy in the Chancellor’s Office–and by extension in his Board of Trustees–is that the CSU should be “run like a business.” This is a re...Read More