Cal State Raises

Final approval is scheduled today for raises averaging 12% for the chancellor and campus presidents of California State University system. These are the third annual raises for the presidents as part of a three-year effort to narrow the salary gap between Cal State’s leaders and those of comparable universities around the country. Campus presidents received 12% raises last year and 7% the year before. Yet other universities have also lavished big raises on their top executives, so Cal State presidents’ average salaries still lag 15.1% behind the average of their peers at 20 comparable institutions such as Georgia State, Florida A&M; and the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. On Tuesday, a committee of Cal State’s Board of Trustees gave preliminary approval to raise the average salary to nearly $196,000, within 3% of the presidents’ peers. The full board is expected to approve the recommended raises at a meeting in Long Beach today.