More pay issues at California state universities
Fearing violence, California State University trustees will cancel next week’s vote on salaries for campus presidents, they said Wednesday — the same day a state senator criticized the University of California regents for handing out state-funded raises of up to 22 percent to some of UC’s best-paid executives.
“Time and time again, rather than protecting the needs of students and California families, the regents and trustees line the pockets of their top executives,” Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said Wednesday after learning that the pay raises were among the actions taken by the regents in a Monday teleconference protested by students on campuses around the state.
Yee’s assessment echoed that of thousands of student protesters who have joined the Occupy movement in
