The battle of how much administrators and staff are being paid is hitting another bump in the road.<\/p>\n
This started back in November of 2025, when the CSU Board of Trustees approved a resolution that authorized pay increases for CSU executives that range from five to 20% on top of any bonuses they receive.<\/p>\n
State Assembly Member Patrick Ahrens of Cupertino explains why this approval comes at a bad time.<\/p>\n
“This occurred in the immediate aftermath of a period in which the CSU denied promised salary step increases to CSU workers citing budget conditions,\u201d Ahrens said \u201cIn addition, the CSU implemented a policy raising tuition annually at all campuses.”<\/p>\n
According to Ahrens by the 2028-29 school year, tuition will be 30% higher than what it was back in 2023.<\/p>\n
“The state of California has provided the CSU budget increases nearly every single year for the past decade between 100,000,000 and $400,000,000 each year, increasing state support by nearly $2,000,000,000 annually ongoing,” Ahrens said.<\/p>\n
This prompted him to create Assembly Bill 1831.<\/p>\n
This bill would cap the amount of increases that university leaders would receive from fiscal year to year.<\/p>\n
But progress of this bill has been paused by the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee and has not been officially approved to move to a full senate vote and won’t be voted on until a future legislation.<\/p>\n
This concern over administration salaries was even echoed by the president of the California Faculty Association Margarita Berta-Avila, who explains the growing gap between affordability.<\/p>\n
“We talk about the growing gap between the rich and the poor,\u201d Berta-Avila said. \u201cWe are literally watching this happen in the CSU. The lowest paid full time lecturer makes just over $66,000 a year, but most lecturers are not full time and make less than half that amount. In comparison, the lowest paid CSU campus president makes $370,000 a year. The highest paid president makes $611,203 a year, and the CND CSU’s chancellor base pay is $750,000.”<\/p>\n
Berta-Avila stressed the importance of funding the classroom and not the boardroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle of how much administrators and staff are being paid is hitting another bump in the road.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-450441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}