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 proposalThe Contract Says Segal Delivers an Editable Model. CSU Says It Has No Further Records.
A Public Records Act request, a $1.1 million contract amendment, and the gap between what the CSU bought and what it says it holds.
Read the articleExecutive pay decisions, 2006 to 2026
Twenty years of Board actions on president, chancellor, and vice chancellor pay, year by year, with charts of the increase and the policy in force at each step.
Open the recordCSU Eliminated Remedial Prerequisites, Not Remediation
EO 1110 ended the stand-alone developmental course. One in three first-year students is still placed in math with support, and the system's own tables show how far behind they remain.
Read the articleThree graphs from the CSU's own reports
Before and after EO 1110, Category II versus IV across five cohorts, and Dominguez Hills against Long Beach, with the practices that may explain the gap.
Open the sectionTwenty years of the faculty salary schedule
Enter a 2005 starting salary and watch the contract raises compound against U.S. and California inflation, with the Assistant Professor and Lecturer ranges at every schedule.
Open the toolWho was in the room, 2016 to 2026
Ten years, every appointed trustee, one color-coded square per Board meeting, from the approved minutes.
Open the gridWho was in the room, 2024 to 2026
Attendance at 22 Board plenary days from the approved minutes, with a link to every meeting and the minutes' own roll-call inconsistencies.
Open the recordWhat CSU Watch is watching now
| Line of inquiry | Status | Next step |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty compensation: the Segal model and the public-records audit | Published (Articles 1 and 2) · Follow-up pending | CSU's reply to the September 14 letter; the May, June, and September Excel deliverables; comparator and job-matching rules. |
| Executive compensation: what the summary lists and leaves out | Published (decision record) · Researching | Incentive dollars actually paid under the 2025 policy; the fund source certified for deferred compensation; the November 2025 Segal presidents' deck now in hand. |
| Construction: cost per GSF, change orders, and final project cost | Source verification | Log the first binder projects in the workbook's Source Register; obtain change-order records for one completed project. |
| Academic preparation: what EO 1110 moved, and where the Category IV students are | Published (Article 3, section) · Source verification | Confirm the Dominguez Hills rows against the report PDFs; request per-campus category tables as data; Early Start participation and fee totals. |
| Faculty salary schedule and the 2026–27 impasse | Published (interactive record) · Follow-up pending | Factfinding report (November 2026); strike authorization result; any settlement's GSI and effective date. |
| Trustee access: public questions, campus visits, response standards | Published (proposal, two-year and ten-year attendance records) · Follow-up pending | September 2026 attendance when minutes are approved in November; appointment and term dates for every trustee; a response matrix from the Board to any written comment on the proposal. |
How 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?