The CSU publishes conclusions. This site follows the paper that is supposed to support them.
Each piece opens with a document, names the gap between what the CSU says and what its own records show, explains the system that produced the gap, proposes a remedy, and ends with a test any student, employee, or taxpayer can run in five minutes.
CSU Says Faculty Pay Is Competitive. The Public Still Cannot Audit the Model.
The August 2026 Segal report offers useful findings. Its missing work papers create the larger transparency question.
Read the articleCSU construction-cost comparison workbook
A spreadsheet that turns Board of Trustees binders into cost-per-square-foot comparisons, with a source register and a warning on every tab: variance is not proof of overpayment.
Open the workbookA CSU Trustee Access and Public Accountability Standard
Nine measures that would let information reach trustees through more than one controlled channel, from a public question log to earlier pre-vote materials.
Read the proposalHow to read this site
Every claim carries one of four labels, and every article ends with a source box that lists the primary document, its date, the page, what the document proves, and what remains uncertain. If a page cannot point to a record, it says so.
Can a member of the CSU community answer, in five minutes and from public records, what this decision costs, who is responsible for it, and what happens next?