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Cal Poly faculty to picket over administrator pay

May 13, 2015
Jeffrey Armstrong

Jeffrey Armstrong

Cal Poly faculty members will picket outside the administration building on campus Thursday to protest overspending on administrators and lack of spending on the university’s other employees. [Tribune]

The university faculty union says it will deliver a petition to Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong calling for a moratorium on administrator pay increases and a roll back of administration pay rates to the 2010 levels. But, the petition also calls for allowing pay hikes for administration, if faculty members, too, receive increases.

From 2010 to 2014, Cal Poly increased the number of administrators by 39 percent, according to the faculty union. The university also increased spending on administrators by 43 percent.

“Meanwhile, the number of faculty has increased slowly, and most of those are temporary positions,” a union statement says. “And faculty pay has stagnated. This, even as the number of students increases.”

Armstrong began his tenure as university president in Feb. 2011. Upon his hiring, CSU trustees approved a compensation package that included $350,000 in yearly pay plus an annual supplement of $30,000 that comes from the Cal Poly Foundation.

Until then, the university’s published salary range for campus presidents was $223,584 to $328,212.

Previous Cal Poly president Warren Baker is currently San Luis Obispo County’s highest earning pensioner. Baker received a $250,687 pension in 2013, which was the 20th-highest in the entire CalPERS system.


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The university system should stop worrying about how deeply they can line their pockets and start worrying about whether the value of an education is worth the costs.


IF I have to save $100k each for my 2 kids, I am seriously considering utilizing those funds to stake them in a business rather than spend 4 years in liberal indoctrination camp where they learn about diversity, taking back the night, and doing keg stands (at Ucsb at least).


The debt kids are coming out of school with is unfathomable these days and many are no better off than they were with just thei hs diploma (see liberal arts degree).


Start worrying less about building new hotels and more about the value of an undergraduate degree mr president.


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Put everyone on Double Secret Probation.


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So Warren Baker gets a quarter of a million bucks a year? For doing absolutely nothing? Must be nice to be a retired university president. #ripoff


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$350K sounds a little excessive, to say the least.


Don’t forget he gets a free house to live in, servants (sorry, household staff) never buys himself a meal and is without a doubt the singe most powerful person in SLO County, just as Warren Baker was.


The Poly president is the absolute ruler over a small city of what, 18,000 students and 10,000 staff? He’s responsible and in chargge of literally everything at Cal Poly.


Kids get hurt off campus at a giant party when a roof collapses, who does everyone look to, to DO SOMETHING! Armstrong, along with the SLOPD chief (see what’s happened to him but not Armstrong) that’s who.


If he says your frat, club, or any individual is done there, you’re gone. No appeals or anything.


He wants to build a dorm at Grand and Slack? You can bet the farm it’s going to happen.


This guy has City officials kissing his ass, too. You can bet secretly they are scrunching up their butt cheeks he doesn’t build out that master plan, new restaurants, faculty-student housing, motel-conference center. That would have a huge impact on the city’s economy. Maybe put a few bars and restaurants out of business, hurt some of the motels too.


Would a Cal Poly motel have to collect bed taxes? No way Jose. That’s a 10% savings for the traveler right there.


It’s a tremendous responsibilitty, so maybe he’s underpaid? I mean how much should the king be paid?


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“Cal Poly faculty to picket over administrator pay”

I guess the cross gender bathrooms didn’t quell the anxiety.


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And one wonders why college tuition is rising so fast and gutting out the finances of the

middle class. It is ironic-the liberal educators of the University (over 90% Democrat)

taking money from the middle class who they say they politically represent, and brainwashing

students into being liberal, too. In California, they have the victimized middle class coming and

going!


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Is it true that the upper Admin jobs get 3.5% per year of there employment, using highest gross salary as their pension formula? I hate to count their money but the money can be spent on available classes or #%*@.


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Check it out: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/california-state-university/


Damn.


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I can only conclude that the Thumbs Down was from Jeffrey Armstrong. What are you doing on here? lol


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Society is undergoing a paradigm shift at present (do not put your Big Mac down and take your eyes off your Big Screen TV to notice this, please). In order to create a more cohesive living environment—we must balance earnings and power–and rely on community intelligence for the formation of this new paradigm.


Future cities may need to be more water efficient, storm-proof and be centered around spiritual and knowledge centers that offer conglomerative energy healing, features such as yoga, qi gong, community gardens, meditation instruction and touch therapy (we live in a society that sees touch as sexual or painful—due to our “nurture starvation”).


We might also need to decide (for the good of the community) how much population growth we will abide by. (This would mean having sloppy, drunk sex that results in abortions or unwanted children would fall by the wayside–we would approach this from a more centered approach). Supreme accountability to earth, society and other individuals would be key.


Yes, I am talking about a shift to collectivism. Not the old “I’ve got my country club membership, six figure salary and I’m comfy—now screw you” that we are accustomed to. Educators are our key to a better future. Lest we become extinct. Which sometimes seems like a viable option.


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sounds like a hippie commune. good luck with that.


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Collectivism is one thing, but collectivism achieved through coercion and force is another. Collectivism for one group at the expense of another is a problem. Large-scale centralized collectivism, where one has no direct input on matters, models are one-sized-fits-all, and there is no accountability will be our undoing, and it will set any legitimate, voluntary, and beneficial efforts at collectivism back several hundred years, if not more.


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Well said. If collectivism can work well, it can only work as a voluntary thing and on a local level where everyone that wants to can have a say. (Having said that, I doubt that any community larger than about 200 people could reach sufficient agreement on things to make for a workable collective and even then they would need a similar philosophical-political orientation.)


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In other words, what is the difference between the model your quote mocks, and “I’ve got my pension, six figure salary, and I’m comfy, now screw you taxpayers. I’ve got YOURS!”


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OOOOOMMMMMM!


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