[T]he CFA presents a devastating critique of the “for-profit” direction that Chancellor Charles Reed and the Board of Trustees have taken the CSU system. “Leveraging the public’s hunger for ‘access’ and the opportunistic moment of crisis,” the paper’s summary states, “the CSU’s executive leadership is quietly pursuing a vision of the university that will have permanent consequences and irrevocably harm the CSU’s quality and reputation.” The detailed and densely footnoted report takes on the gigantic executive salaries and perks that have become central to the Chancellor and Trustees’ approach to university governance even in a period of austerity. The paper also critically examines the top management’s proposed expansion of Extended Education programs to by-pass public accountability as well as its promoting of on-line courses that can be farmed out to organizations outside the university in an effort to open up new opportunities to exploit California’s struggling student population.

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by Joseph A. Palermo, The Huffington Post.

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