CSU Faculty and Chancellor

It was disheartening for California State University faculty to read the interview with Chancellor Charles B. Reed (Opinion, June 28). There were no questions regarding strong faculty disagreement with his leadership or the bitter contract dispute with faculty, which threatens labor strife throughout the CSU system.

The fact is that Reed finds his faculty unnecessary. He neither wants to pay us fairly, provide job security, give us decent class sizes or keep workloads at realistic levels. Instead he wants the CSU to increasingly use part-time faculty, videotaped lectures and to run a university like an assembly line. And clearly, he doesn’t want to include faculty in the most vital discussions regarding the future of the system.

I’m proud to be a CSU faculty member. I’m proud of what we do with limited resources. I am not proud of the way the system has declined so that our most needy citizens, particularly students from substandard primary and secondary schools, are faced with a system so cynically run by Chancellor Reed with the help of The Times.

MORLEY GLICKEN, San Bernardino

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Chancellor Reed talked of some truly worthwhile, innovative and thoughtful changes for the CSU system. It is, therefore, incomprehensible to me that he can think of nothing except to “experiment” with tenure. Who really thinks that it is a good idea to “experiment” with academic freedom? With 100,000 new students, all the tenured teachers who can be persuaded to stay will be needed.

JOANNE N. NAGY, Granada Hills