Fire Chancellor and End Over a Decade of Failed and Corrupt Oversight
- by: California taxpayers
- recipient: Governor Jerry Brown
We the undersigned demand that you fire CSU Chancellor Charles Reed immediately and cap all CSU executive salary and benefits from exceeding those of the governor of California. We further demand that all tuition fee increases for students and pay cuts for faculty be linked to decreases in executive pay and benefits of an equal or greater percentage.
Chancellor Reed's tenure has been marked by an obscene degradation of the CSU system. Reed has three passionate pursuits that define his management style: raising student fees; undermining real pay and benefits for faculty and support personal; and raising pay and benefits for his hand-picked administrators.
Reed has overseen astronomical tuition increases for students totaling 318% since the 01/02 academic year. Reed has instituted multiple tuition fee increases for students each year resulting in increases of 48.3% since 2009-2010 alone. For the 2011-2012 year Reed enacted a 10% tuition increase followed by another 12%. The resulting $1446 single-year tuition increase represents an astounding 26.2%! On 11/16/2011 Reed and the CSU trustees again raised tuition an additional 9%. Students protesting the tuition increase at the 11/16/2011 meeting were first ejected from the trustees' meeting, then university police maced and arrested some students.
These tuition fee increases have bought students less. Reed has matched tuition fee increases with increases in class sizes, increases in the ratio of students to faculty, fewer course offerings, decreased operating hours, higher parking fees, and a general backlog of maintenance for facilities. Reed's efforts have resulted in an 18% increase in student enrollment while maintaining 0% growth in tenure-line faculty numbers.
Reed's second passion--forcing decreased or stagnant pay for faculty and support personnel--is just as shocking. Reed has relentlessly demanded give-backs in real wages and benefits with every contract negotiation. General faculty pay has fallen 16% adjusted for inflation. Reed's current position in contract negotiations with faculty is to demand a 0% pay increase for the coming year together with the ability to dictate pay cuts for the next two years. In effect, Reed's position is to demand a 6% real wage loss for faculty after inflation over the next two years. Likewise, faculty have endured increased workloads resulting from lower numbers of faculty teaching ever higher numbers of students. Ever increasing numbers of courses have been shifted to piece-work format utilizing lecturers or offered through extension at substantially lower wages and benefits.
Reed's fervor for punishing workers and raising student fees while degrading quality is rivaled only by his egregious lust for increases in administrative positions and administrative compensation. Reed matched an increase in student enrollment of 18% with a 0% increase in tenure-line faculty numbers. Reed has, however, increased the number of non-instructional managerial and administrative positions 22%. Reed has likewise relentlessly pushed through pay increases for administrators like himself and campus presidents. Reed's own official salary has increased 66% and now hovers just below half a million dollars a year--roughly twice the governor of California's pay rate. He receives an additional $30,000 in yearly retirement compensation from the largely non-transparent, unregulated CSU foundation. Reed likewise enjoys a benefit package including housing and transportation subsidies. The housing (provided) and travel subsidies ($12,000) alone exceed the average yearly pay of tenured full professors. Reed has likewise pushed through pay increases of 71% for administrative positions like campus presidents. These individuals also enjoy additional compensation in the form of benefit packages. The housing and travel benefits for campus presidents, excluding other perks, averages around $72,000 a year.
Any response by the governor's office, short of firing Reed and instituting executive pay and wage reforms, represents an endorsement by the governor of Reed's destructive and selfish mismanagement.
We the undersigned demand that you fire CSU Chancellor Charles Reed immediately and cap all CSU executive salary and benefits from exceeding those of the governor of California. We further demand that all tuition fee increases for students and pay cuts for faculty be linked to decreases in executive pay and benefits of an equal or greater percentage.
Chancellor Reed's tenure has been marked by an obscene degradation of the CSU system. Reed has three passionate pursuits that define his management style: raising student fees; undermining real pay and benefits for faculty and support personal; and raising pay and benefits for his hand-picked administrators.
Reed has overseen astronomical tuition fee increases for students totaling 263%. In the last three years Reed has instituted multiple tuition fee increases for students each year resulting in increases of 36% since 2009-2010 alone. For the 2011-2012 year Reed enacted a 10% tuition increase followed by another 12% . The resulting $1446 single-year fee increase represents an astounding 26.2%! These tuition fee increases have bought students less. Reed has matched tuition fee increases with increases in class sizes, increases in the ratio of students to faculty, fewer course offerings, decreased operating hours, higher parking fees, and a general backlog of maintenance for facilities. Reed's efforts have resulted in an 18% increase in student enrollment while maintaining 0% growth in tenure-line faculty numbers.
Reed's second passion--forcing decreased or stagnant pay for faculty and support personnel--is just as shocking. Reed has relentlessly demanded give-backs in real wages and benefits with every contract negotiation. General faculty pay has fallen 16% adjusted for inflation. Likewise, faculty have seen increased workloads resulting from lower numbers of faculty teaching ever higher numbers of students.
Reed's fervor for punishing workers and raising student fees while degrading quality is rivaled only by his egregious lust for increases in administrative positions and administrative compensation. Reed matched an increase in student enrollment of 18% with a 0% increase in tenure-line faculty numbers. Reed has, however, increased the number of non-instructional managerial and administrative positions 22%. Reed has likewise relentlessly pushed through pay increases for administrators like himself and campus presidents. Reed's own official salary has increased 66% and now hovers just below half a million dollars a year--roughly twice the governor of California's pay rate. He receives an additional $30,000 in yearly retirement compensation from the largely non-transparent, unregulated CSU foundation. Reed likewise enjoys a benefit package including housing and transportation subsidies. The housing (provided) and travel subsidies ($12,000) alone exceed the average yearly pay of tenured full professors. Reed has likewise pushed through pay increases of 71% for administrative positions like campus presidents. These individuals also enjoy additional compensation in the form of benefit packages. The housing and travel benefits for campus presidents, excluding other perks, averages around $72,000 a year.
Any response by the governor's office, short of firing Reed and instituting executive pay and wage reforms, represents an endorsement by the governor of Reed's destructive and selfish mismanagement.
Sign PetitionSign PetitionChancellor Reed's tenure has been marked by an obscene degradation of the CSU system. Reed has three passionate pursuits that define his management style: raising student fees; undermining real pay and benefits for faculty and support personal; and raising pay and benefits for his hand-picked administrators.
Reed has overseen astronomical tuition fee increases for students totaling 263%. In the last three years Reed has instituted multiple tuition fee increases for students each year resulting in increases of 36% since 2009-2010 alone. For the 2011-2012 year Reed enacted a 10% tuition increase followed by another 12% . The resulting $1446 single-year fee increase represents an astounding 26.2%! These tuition fee increases have bought students less. Reed has matched tuition fee increases with increases in class sizes, increases in the ratio of students to faculty, fewer course offerings, decreased operating hours, higher parking fees, and a general backlog of maintenance for facilities. Reed's efforts have resulted in an 18% increase in student enrollment while maintaining 0% growth in tenure-line faculty numbers.
Reed's second passion--forcing decreased or stagnant pay for faculty and support personnel--is just as shocking. Reed has relentlessly demanded give-backs in real wages and benefits with every contract negotiation. General faculty pay has fallen 16% adjusted for inflation. Likewise, faculty have seen increased workloads resulting from lower numbers of faculty teaching ever higher numbers of students.
Reed's fervor for punishing workers and raising student fees while degrading quality is rivaled only by his egregious lust for increases in administrative positions and administrative compensation. Reed matched an increase in student enrollment of 18% with a 0% increase in tenure-line faculty numbers. Reed has, however, increased the number of non-instructional managerial and administrative positions 22%. Reed has likewise relentlessly pushed through pay increases for administrators like himself and campus presidents. Reed's own official salary has increased 66% and now hovers just below half a million dollars a year--roughly twice the governor of California's pay rate. He receives an additional $30,000 in yearly retirement compensation from the largely non-transparent, unregulated CSU foundation. Reed likewise enjoys a benefit package including housing and transportation subsidies. The housing (provided) and travel subsidies ($12,000) alone exceed the average yearly pay of tenured full professors. Reed has likewise pushed through pay increases of 71% for administrative positions like campus presidents. These individuals also enjoy additional compensation in the form of benefit packages. The housing and travel benefits for campus presidents, excluding other perks, averages around $72,000 a year.
Any response by the governor's office, short of firing Reed and instituting executive pay and wage reforms, represents an endorsement by the governor of Reed's destructive and selfish mismanagement.
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