UC, Cal State to freeze salaries, delay construction projects
Looks like legislation from Anthony Portantino that would have stopped the college systems from giving any more raises to top administrators for the next two years may have gotten the attention of the school systems. From the Oakland Tribune:
With the economy in crisis and the state's budget in tatters, California's public universities announced Friday that they will freeze salaries for hundreds of top administrators and halt construction projects.
The University of California and California State University systems said they would not give raises to executives on campuses or at university headquarters this year, and the UC system -- pending approval by the Board of Regents next week -- will cancel some bonuses for the highest-paid administrators.
The move affects hundreds of officials in the two systems: about 285 at UC and 150 at Cal State. Most of them have six-figure salaries.
The Cal State system also announced that it had suspended bond-financed construction on all 23 campuses after a state board said it would withhold payments.
The school system had been criticized for making pay raises even as it considered plans to cut back enrollment. In the past, the school has also given out pay raises around the same time it has raised student tuition fees.
The Portantino legislation would have been largely symbolic, since the extra money for pay raises is a drop in the bucket for the school systems, but it would have been a good and fair symbol.
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