Do CSULB faculty deserve more pay?
Do the faculty at Cal State Long Beach deserve the pay they are asking for? In short, yes, many do, but certainly not all of them. The California Faculty Association (CFA) has had faculty protests and threatened the CSU system with a two-day strike at each CSU in order to get more pay after months of failed negotiations and stagnant talks between the groups. According to an e-mail from Elizabeth Hoffman, the CSULB representative on the board of directors for the CFA, the talks between the CSU system and the CFA halted in July 2006. Hoffman, who is an associate vice president and represents lecturers, says CSU faculty are earning 18 percent less than other faculty at comparable universities and are earning less than the average faculty member at community colleges. According to the CSU Web site, the CSU system has offered an “unprecedented amount” in compensation to teachers and made a proposal which “provides for a four-year contract with guaranteed funding for the incentive portion of
