Just hours after California Governor Jerry Brown released his budget plan on Jan. 10, members of the Cal State system were quick to criticize. Brown’s plan offered to allocate $92.1 million toward the California State University system, an amount that many in the university system agree is unsustainable. “If lawmakers[Read More…]
Tag: California Faculty Association
Across the CSU system, faculty will get a salary increase
During the second day of the Board of Trustees meeting, the board ratified an extension for the collective bargaining agreement between the Cal State system and the California Faculty Association, which included a faculty salary increase. The board extended the agreement until June 30, 2020; the original agreement was set[Read More…]
California Faculty Association invited faculty members to voice their individual campus safety opinions
A forum geared toward faculty safety took place Wednesday at the Karl Anatol Center and allowed 40 members of Cal State Long Beach to voice their concerns about protocol in the event of an emergency. Deborah Hamm, California Faculty Association representative and education lecturer, led the discussion alongside Mark Wiley,[Read More…]
CSU Board of Trustees extends bargaining with faculty
The Cal State University Board of Trustees have extended a tentative bargaining agreement with the California Faculty Association to incrementally raise faculty pay over the next two years. Michael Uhlenkamp, interim senior director of public affairs for the CSU system, explained that the bargaining agreement reached on Tuesday Sept. 26[Read More…]
California State University Employee’s Union calls for change in employee contracts
With just nine weeks before contract renewal with California State University, the CSU Employee Union has recently began the bargaining process of their contract in order to secure and better the rights of employees covered by the union. The CSUEU represents approximately 16,000 employees across all 23 CSU campuses. According[Read More…]
CFA sponsors moratorium on tuition increases
The general public was introduced to a tuition-freezing bill known as the Student Protection Act Tuesday morning at Sacramento State University. Written by Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva of the 65th district and sponsored by the California Faculty Association, Assembly Bill 393 proposes a four-year moratorium on systemwide tuition and student fee[Read More…]
CSULB Academic Senate applauds new pay range agreement
California Faculty Association Long Beach chapter president Doug Domingo-Foraste announced to the Academic Senate on Thursday that the CFA worked out an agreement with the California State University Chancellor’s office to fix the range-elevation pay scale for lecturers. Lecturers are hired into a salary range: A, B, C or D,[Read More…]
CSU salary drought
The California Faculty Association released on Tuesday the first of a series of four “White Papers,” which is a report that accuses California State University administrators of failing to invest in student success. Titled “Race to the Bottom: CSU’s 10-year Failure to Fund its Core Mission,” the first paper is[Read More…]