(02-19-2021 10:04 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(02-19-2021 05:13 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  I do think that Cal Poly should have a seperate system away from Cal State. As large a state as California? They only have like 2 systems unlike the states of Texas and Florida. Arkansas have like 3 systems with UA, Arkansas State and Arkansas Tech, no other schools have branches in the state.

I completely agree.

Also SDSU would be much better as an independent.

A few others would probably be better off alone, too (Fresno, SJSU, Northridge, maybe Fullerton).

The Cal State system is a clusterf#&k of the highest magnitude. One minor example: I worked there until a few years ago. My paycheck for teaching summer classes was 7 weeks late, despite constant pestering from me, my department chair, and our department secretary. CSU said they were having "a hard time calculating how to include the annual raise into summer pay." Can you imagine the sheer magnitude of incompetency that implies? In the days of the internet and excel spreadsheets, this problem sat on some idiot's desk in Long Beach (at CSU HQ) for almost two months. And don't even get me started about the number of hoops our department had to jump through to get reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses.

That has to do with it being government and California, not the number of systems. The Texas setup is very dysfunctional. California with their two distinct types of entities (along with community colleges) is much better.