Letter: Administrative bloat at CSUS

San Francisco Chronicle 2/20/07

Re "Blitz is on for college recruits," Feb. 14: Steve Boilard of the Legislative Analyst's Office could not have portrayed the attitude of Sac State administrators any better than his observation "that schools can add students without much cost and therefore pocket the difference."

Building projects on the California State University, Sacramento, campus have not added the classrooms and laboratories needed to teach the students who are being aggressively recruited.

The faculty who are needed to teach these students are being alienated in contract negotiations with the CSU chancellor that have dragged on for 20 months. While building projects have focused on athletics and private companies, faculty workloads have increased and administrative salaries have soared. Pocketing the difference is exactly what the CSUS administration plans to do.

Students will see through this farce and enroll elsewhere; faculty will vote with their feet.

- Winston C. Lancaster, Sacramento

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences