Pay issues at the CSU System.


The LA Times just came out with an article focusing on a Cal State Faculty survey that describes low pay and hardship.  Tensions are getting high at the CSU system.  The median pay rate at the CSU system hovers around 45,000 dollars, but the report by the LA Times combines both Full Time and Part Time instructors and averages the rate.  Apparently half the instructors are reported to be teaching courses at the CSU system are part time.  

The report begins: 
Some California State University faculty say their salary is so low that they must work two jobs, can’t afford to buy a home and at times depend on food stamps and other government assistance to get by.
Those and other hardships were recounted in a new report released Tuesday by the California Faculty Assn., which contends that the 23-campus system is failing to invest in its teaching workforce.
The faculty group this year surveyed more than 5,500 members and found widespread discontent and demoralization about their financial well-being.
We at Compton Education Center and in the community college system in general already knew about this.  Part time pay has been low relative to workloads.  This is despite growing bloat in the Administrative ranks who often contribute to violations of the 50% law which demands that minimally 50% of the budget goes to instruction.

Some of the posted numbers are disturbing.  The LA Times states:

More than half of CSU faculty make less than $38,000 in gross earnings, according to the report. In addition, the average faculty salary at each campus lost purchasing power over the last decade when adjusted for inflation, from about a $7,114 loss at San Diego State to a $13,796 loss at Chico State.
In terms of take-home pay, 95% of lecturers make less than $4,000 per month and 43% of them take home less than $2,000 a month; 72% of assistant professors and 52% of associate professors take home less than $4,000, and 88% of full professors take home less than $6,000 per month.
Most of our faculty take home less that $6,000 a month as well, and we have to deal with Student Learning Outcomes and other unfunded mandates.

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