At least five will retire soon. Filling the raft of vacancies will be a challenge in the new fiscal era… The university’s leaders face the challenge of finding replacements during the state’s fiscal crisis and at a time when Cal State is also under scrutiny for recent hiring and compensation decisions… Cal State leaders were criticized this summer after they decided to pay Elliot Hirshman, the new president of San Diego State, an annual salary of $400,000, $100,000 more than his predecessor. That vote followed the board’s controversial decision in January to pay $380,000 to the new president of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Reed and other officials said the salaries were necessary to attract talented administrators for the jobs of running large campuses and raising millions of dollars in private funds.

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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.

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