CSU faculty will receive 10.5 percent raise over next two years

Just days before California State University professors were expected to walk out on the job, Chancellor Timothy White and the California Faculty Association jointly announced Friday a tentative contract agreement far more expansive than the 5 percent raise teaching staff sought for nearly a year.

The three-year deal averts a massive five-day strike at CSU’s 23 campuses and likely brings to an end months of wrangling over instructor salaries. Among other terms, it will provide a staggered pay increase of 10.5 percent over the next two years to approximately 26,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches.