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OT: Cal State Univ Management Audit

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https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2016-122.pdf

It's an interesting read for those concerned with such matters.  Other than the obvious; the growth in management positions and compensation far exceeding growth in all other employee categories, there's this little nugget:

Also, San Diego State improperly classified eight assistant coaches as management personnel instead of faculty specifically to increase their salaries. Pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement, CSU is required to classify coaches as faculty unless they supervise two or more fulltime employees in the faculty bargaining unit. In a 2011 memo, San Diego State’s associate athletic director of business administration (associate athletic director) stated that new assistant football coaches would be hired as management personnel and would receive starting annual salaries of $150,000 each to keep pace with comparable coaching salaries across the country, based on previous discussions. In addition, he requested that three existing assistant football coaches be reclassified as management personnel and receive the same higher salary. San Diego State’s assistant director of employment services, the recipient of the memo, told us that  the campus reclassified the assistant coaches because their salaries, which were at the maximum allowed for faculty under the collective bargaining agreement before the reclassification, were too low to be competitive in the labor market and attract sufficient talent. However, as previously stated, the bargaining unit agreement that governs assistant coaches requires CSU to classify these employees as faculty unless they supervise two or more fulltime employees in the same bargaining unit. The assistant director of employment services confirmed that the campus’s assistant coaches do not supervise other individuals in the faculty bargaining unit.

 It appears we are not the first to question San Diego State’s reclassification of the assistant coaches. In the margin of the associate athletic director’s 2011 memo, we observed a handwritten note from an unidentified individual asking “why?” with an underline below the narrative describing the reclassification. When we asked the assistant director of employment services for further explanation, she acknowledged that San Diego State may not be in compliance with the Chancellor’s Office’s interpretation of the bargaining unit agreement, but she asserted that the assistant coaches are program managers, therefore qualifying them to be management personnel in accordance with state regulations.

However, the Public Employment Relations Board decided in 1981 that coaches were properly classified as faculty. Further, the Chancellor’s Office policy on this subject requires any athletic coaches not supervising two or more fulltime faculty bargaining unit members to be included in the bargaining unit and excluded from the management personnel plan. We found this policy to accurately convey requirements in the bargaining unit agreement. When we examined position descriptions for some of the assistant coaches, we did not find adequate support for San Diego State’s claim that these employees are program managers.

Given the foregoing, we disagree with San Diego State’s assertion and believe that San Diego State improperly classified these assistant coaches as management personnel and thus inappropriately granted the three existing assistant coaches raises averaging 33 percent at a total annual cost of more than $111,000. Eventually, San Diego State hired more assistant coaches as management personnel and misclassified a total of eight assistant coaches.

 If San Diego State believes that its eight assistant coaches are underpaid, it should work with the Chancellor’s Office, bargaining unit representatives, the Public Employment Relations Board, and others as necessary to come to an agreement on the appropriate classification of assistant coaches.

 

 

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What a joke.  I hate the high pay of coaches in the NCAA but if you are going to field a team, you have to play the coaching game.  Those coaches should not be classified as anything but coaches and their pay structure should be different.  Too much has changed since 1981 to follow this policy. 

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2 hours ago, Wyobraska said:

What a joke.  I hate the high pay of coaches in the NCAA but if you are going to field a team, you have to play the coaching game.  Those coaches should not be classified as anything but coaches and their pay structure should be different.  Too much has changed since 1981 to follow this policy. 

Exactly.  That is a typical example of why public G5 teams are hamstrung from competing against P5 schools.

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My guess is that much like the SDSU president was given an exception to be paid better than the base CSU system allows -- they will find a way to make exceptions for the FBS programs of the CSU in order to remain competitive.

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4 hours ago, HighNTight_SD said:

My guess is that much like the SDSU president was given an exception to be paid better than the base CSU system allows -- they will find a way to make exceptions for the FBS programs of the CSU in order to remain competitive.

 Audits such as this don't just materialize.  They are typically requested as the front end of a series of corrective actions. The state legislature, and Gov Brown are on a long march to  slow the growth of education spending. The way forward is through endowment funded stipends or some other means outside of the state civil service framework.

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

-Richard Feynman

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

-P.J. O’Rourke

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17 minutes ago, SDSUfan said:

 Audits such as this don't just materialize.  They are typically requested as the front end of a series of corrective actions. The state legislature, and Gov Brown are on a long march to  slow the growth of education spending. The way forward is through endowment funded stipends or some other means outside of the state civil service framework.

Interesting, if I read this correctly, your Gov is looking at cutting coaching salaries for CSU schools.

At least monies that are provided by the state.

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29 minutes ago, DestinFlPackfan said:

Interesting, if I read this correctly, your Gov is looking at cutting coaching salaries for CSU schools.

At least monies that are provided by the state.

The report is much broader in scope. This is just one  thing the auditors found,  not the worst. The basic thrust is that managers are growing in ranks in both numbers and salaries with little or no documented justification. 

 

 

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

-Richard Feynman

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

-P.J. O’Rourke

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5 minutes ago, ph90702 said:

Is there an adult film administration major at Cal State Northridge?

No. If you want to be a fluffer, you'll have to attend a trade school.

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-Richard Feynman

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

-P.J. O’Rourke

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1 minute ago, ph90702 said:

I want to get it to directing.  Where do I go to learn about lighting and stage set up?

There are no shortcuts. You start at the bottom, so to speak. Fluffer, lube man, towel boy, grip, best boy then maybe they let you hold  the light.

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

-Richard Feynman

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

-P.J. O’Rourke

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7 hours ago, Wyobraska said:

You can start by holding the light while Dre is banging yer mom and shaving her back.  

Actually, I'd prefer him to be a "go-fer". He can get me a case of Budweiser, a pack of Marlboro reds, and a can of Lysol for the smell his mom permeates.

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