CSU San Jose Action for Education

The California Faculty Association recently conducted a "CSU San Jose Action to Defend Public Education" in San Jose, staging a mock car wash of CSU Chancellor Reed's car. The event was held to protest the low salaries paid to "SJSU" professors who must live in an area with one of the highest costs of living in the United States.

Lecturer Elena Dorabji, who teaches political science states, "I want to believe that I am working in a secluded ivory tower where I am given the resources to teach my students to the best of my ability. But everywhere I look I see the evidence of mismanagement, willful neglect and general malfeasance."

In addition to poor resources, CSU educators, students and alumni at "San Jose State" are not even permitted to identify and market themselves under a prestigious California State University identity, which could help make the school better known, more broadly appealing and wealthier, and could also help make the school's CSU degrees more recognizable and valuable.

This is the policy of the SJSU Administration and SJSU Alumni Association, both of which represent only the small minority of the school's students and alumni who support the provincial and limiting "SJSU" identity that disenfrancises thousands of CSU students, alumni and educators in San Jose.

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