Today I was awarded the
@csumb
Faculty Senate Award for Outstanding Teaching! Thank you to my students and my colleagues for nominating me. It is my pleasure to do what I do each and every day. 🥰❤️
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
A group of 7 teenagers just rolled up on bikes and tore down our
#pride
flag and threw it in our trash can. I got out to the front porch just as the last one was riding away. Multiple words were yelled. The flag was back up within 10 min. Fuck the haters.
Cal State University workers deserve livable wages.
@CFA_United
is fighting for those wages.
Here are the folks rejecting livable wages.
---> Please share 💡
Let's start at the top... a salary thread 🧵
Mildred Garcia, Cal State Chancellor
Annual Salary: $875,000 (2024)
CSU Chancellor, Dr. Mildred García, makes just shy of $1,000,000 per year and is refusing to raise the salary floor for the lowest paid faculty in the system she oversees. Shame on her. Share this to show you are
#UnionStrong
.
#MillieMcDuck
#MillionDollarMillie
@CFA_United
…
When an administrator ranks your work efforts as "Less Than Adequate" in a formal review and you arrive to your office the very next day to find the LOVE of your department colleagues on full display. ❤️ 🤣😂
This is why we strike.
We strike for livable wages.
We strike for decent working conditions.
Our working conditions are student learning conditions.
The CSU has the resources to make this right.
Please share to show the workers your support.
@CFA_United
#UnionStrong
🧵 Chancellor García, is anti-faculty & anti-student. FACULTY working conditions are STUDENT learning conditions. This is why we STRIKE. We demand fair wages, more student mental health counselors, and safe campuses.
#UnionStrong
#MillionDollarMillie
Please share 📢
@CFA_United
Josh is 100% correct. We are suffering under the leadership of Chancellor Garcia and she has only been on the job for a few months. It is time our Governor support the folks that make the Cal State System the social mobility machine that it is today! What say you
@GavinNewsom
.…
BREAKING: Nearly 30,000 faculty members at California State University are on strike.
They're shutting down the biggest four-year public university system in the country to demand pay increases and better benefits.
Some faculty are food unstable, or have unstable housing.
🚨🚨 The strike is ON. 🚨🚨
29,000 workers in the CSU are standing up for this essential social mobility machine. We won't let the overpaid top brass threaten the good work faculty and staff do for Californians. Tell
@GavinNewsom
we need his help:
🧵 Chancellor García, is anti-faculty & anti-student. FACULTY working conditions are STUDENT learning conditions. This is why we STRIKE. We demand fair wages, more student mental health counselors, and safe campuses.
#UnionStrong
#MillionDollarMillie
Please share 📢
@CFA_United
This strike is over. Good luck repairing the damage you caused, Chancellor García. What a way to start your position leading California’s social mobility machine. You are still grossly overpaid.
@CFA_United
The full board approved the compensation package, 18-2 with one abstention.
García will earn $795,000 in base salary, deferred compensation of 80,000, auto allowance of $1,000 and a monthly housing stipend of $8,000.
Trustees Diana Aguilar-Cruz and Douglas Faigin voted no.
It was my pleasure to travel to
@Fresno_State
this week and serve as a poster and oral presentation judge at the 45th annual Central California Research Symposium (my 10th year!). Such a great student and community event💪🏼🔥❤️
“The more than $8 billion savings account was amassed by not spending the financial resources that taxpayers intended to go to providing educational services.”
@jacobin
@CFA_United
Favorite student comment this term:
"This instructors ability to not give you the answers but guide you towards figuring things out is some of the strongest I've seen here
@CSUMB
."
Students like this are the reason faculty do what they do.
@CSUMB
is a special place where students can explore, learn, think, wonder, & thrive. Faculty & staff are here to support their journey from beginning to end. Professors have a challenging role, but this is why we do it!
Wow, this response! 😮 We really do have complex jobs, huh? My doctoral research was on burnout, & I won't say that is UNRELATED to the graphic either.
Here's a slightly updated version. And as per requests, link to a PPT version you can download & adapt
First of all... The faculty, coaches, counselors, and librarians of the
@calstate
system DESERVE to be paid fairly. We have endured years of no raises and inflation. Folks are hurting and barely scraping by month to month. THIS is not sustainable.
@CFA_United
Cal State University workers deserve livable wages.
@CFA_United
is fighting for those wages.
Here are the folks rejecting livable wages.
---> Please share 💡
Let's start at the top... a salary thread 🧵
Mildred Garcia, Cal State Chancellor
Annual Salary: $875,000 (2024)
Just got an email from CSUMB HR asking faculty to report their absence if they were on strike Monday, so pay could be reduced. Email started: "Your work is vital to the success of our students and to this institution. Thank you!" Deadline to report: Noon tomorrow.
@CFA_United
You cannot “cancel” student loans any more than you can cancel a car payment or credit card debt. That money has to come from somewhere.
Proponents of this literally wanted student loan debt transferred to other people. It’s obnoxious.
LONG BEACH -- In a remarkable display of support to their students, Chancellor García and the 23 CSU campus Presidents announced today the donation of their annual salaries to a newly formed scholarship fund. Totaling $6.75 million, the fund will help students across the State.
The new presidents of
@ChicoState
&
@sacstate
will be making $450,000+ a year each (unanimous approval by
@calstate
trustees). Last week at
@CSUMB
we cancelled catering for multiple student events last minute to “save money.”
@CFA_United
🚨🚨
The CSU Chancellor’s Office is searching for a new “Associate Vice Chancellor of Strategic Communications and Brand Marketing” with an anticipated salary of about $24,167 per month. Meanwhile campuses are millions in the red.
@CFA_United
Huge university President/Chancellor investiture ceremonies are a waste of resources, ESPECIALLY in times of budget crises. Looking at you California State University.
They ❤️ raising tuition on their family.
They ❤️ denying livable wages to their family.
They ❤️ hoarding taxpayer dollars from their family.
Don't buy the hype folks. This is pure marketing.
My CalState Family deserves better. 💔💔💔💔
@CFA_United
@CSUSQEstatewide
Please RT.
"The CFA is asking for a 12-percent increase, among other demands. “Anything less than that is a pay cut in real dollars,” O’Donnell says. The union wants the lowest paid workers, lecturers who teach most of the classes, to make more than the current average for a lecturer with…
Admins here recently introduced a Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VSIP) for Faculty as a measure to "mitigate a long-term structural budget deficit." Our students deserve better solutions.
@ImprovNutrition
The colleague who wrote it (I can tell by the handwriting) is my bestie and they KNEW I would KNOW, and that I would laugh my ass off... and I did.
Today, 29,000 Cal State professors, lecturers, coaches, librarians, and counselors walked out on strike. For years these workers have been denied job stability and fair pay – I stand in solidarity with
@CFA_United
’s demands for a fair contract now!
I swear one does all the things to conserve energy... laundry only at certain times, thermostat down at night, efficient appliances, and the bills stay the same or increase.
I am now up to 24 emails for an incorrect $4.80 charge on my p-card. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to reconsider my career. I take my responsibility over managing funds very seriously, but this is absolutely a waste of everyone’s time.
ASKING FOR LETTERS OF REC OUT OF THE GATE FOR FACULTY APPS IS TOTAL BULLSHIT JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE A SEMI SHORT LIST AND SAVE EVERYONES FUCKING TIME AND ENERGY
“I don't want to sound like I'm just sour grapes, I dearly love working with my students ... I just don't understand how the valuation is calculated on the management side, because it seems like they don't think what we do is actually that important.”
She REFUSES to raise the salary floor of the lowest paid full-time faculty members from about $54k a year to about $64k a year. While she sits pretty with her fortunes, the workers in her system struggle to make ends meet. Shame on her.
Please share 📢
@CFA_United
We could probably hire 2-3 tenure track full time faculty to TEACH CLASSES with his salary. I am just assuming here, but previous data would suggest I am not that far off.
Meanwhile "every campus is in a budget crisis"
@CFA_United
This is why we take labor actions. We as labor providers need to advocate for our own well-being and $ stability (not to mention other critical points we are bargaining over). So, WILL I BE WITHHOLDING MY LABOR in solidarity?!
OF COURSE I WILL!
@CFA_United
#UnionStrong
@CFA_United
Also let’s not forget that the strike being called off late Monday night required many, including myself, to pivot hard and field student inquiries THAT NIGHT, then prep for classes that were going to happen the VERY NEXT morning. So yeah I worked on Monday AT NIGHT.
Cal State University workers deserve livable wages.
@CFA_United
is fighting for those wages.
Here are the folks rejecting livable wages.
---> Please share 💡
Let's start at the top... a salary thread 🧵
Mildred Garcia, Cal State Chancellor
Annual Salary: $875,000 (2024)
Not just in higher ed but other sectors as well. Rank and file are tired, overworked, and underpaid relative to their "bosses". This is why we are fighting for a 12% wage increase THIS YEAR. Faculty deserve nothing less and we are prepared to withhold labor.
@CFA_United
The CEO of General Motors just went on CNN and it went like this:
"You've seen a 34 percent pay increase in your salary.
You make almost 30 million. Why should your workers not get the same type of pay increases that you're getting leading the company?"