San Diego Union-Tribune: Administrators’ pay hike raises ire of CSU faculty
Students turned away because of funding
Some California State University faculty members are angry the system has awarded pay raises of up to 19 percent to high-level administrators while turning away students because of inadequate funding.
The raises represent a fraction of the CSU system’s proposed $5.1 billion budget and were approved during the course of the year.
At a time when the 23 campuses are under pressure to trim budgets, and 10,000 applicants are being shut out by a newly enforced enrollment cap, the salary increases seem ill-advised to some.
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An Authoritative Word on Academic Freedom
New York Times: An Authoritative Word on Academic Freedom
More than a few times in these columns I have tried to deflate the balloon of academic freedom by arguing that it was not an absolute right or a hallowed principle, but a practical and limited response to the particular nature of intellectual work.
Now, in a new book — “For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom,” to be published in 2009 — two distinguished scholars of constitutional law, Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post, study the history and present shape of the concept and come to conclusions that support and deepen what I have been saying in these columns and elsewhere.
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