Management salaries, spending habits take away from Poly faculty pay

Congratulations to the Cal Poly faculty for “We don’t want to strike, but we will if necessary” (Feb. 20). Exorbitant six-figure salaries, benefits, perks and pensions of chancellors down to an array of administrators extract funds from faculty, students, taxpayers and the infrastructure.

Here are additional collected impediments against efficient use of funds:

1. Departments “must spend all,” leaving nothing for a reserve.

2. There is no “cost-saving award” system to benefit faculty members.

3. There are no “individual merit” salary increases for outstanding accomplishment.

4. Prerequisite and basic correspondence classes are not maximized to save space and increase emphasis on upper-level courses.

5. Selected campus maintenance and improvements by foundations, faculty and students are not accomplished for cost savings and academic credit.

Also, Cuesta College management chose an exorbitant “diverse” property tax bond from one of the most expensive options. The above impediments also apply except where a former employee reported an excessive semester space downtime of 34 percent. The “life-cycle cost analysis” to select the least-costly improvement and maintenance alternative was ignored.

This story was originally published March 21, 2016 at 8:33 PM with the headline "Management salaries, spending habits take away from Poly faculty pay."