| The California State University will reinvest in its faculty to maintain its primary mission as a teaching-centered comprehensive university. Faculty scholarship, research and creative activity are essential components of that mission. |
| Recommendations | Current Status | Constituencies | Priorities | Actions |
| 4a. A commitment to a systemwide faculty development and reinvestment plan, including steps to define and address the faculty salary gap, investment in faculty reinvestment and development, improvement of the faculty role in shared governance, strengthening the diversity of the faculty, including faculty determination of improved measures for recognizing a wider range of engaged scholarship in addition to teaching, research, and creative activity. The Academic Senate, the faculty union, and CSU administration must be appropriately involved in developing this plan. | | | High | |
| 4b. A commitment to develop system and campus policies guiding decisions on the replacement of retiring faculty. | Campus practice is now to use retirement dollars as potential for reallocation. | | High | Need systematic curricular planning at department level. |
| 4c. A commitment to support research, scholarly and creative activities for the faculty as a central element of a rich learning environment for our students. | Campus not using the flexible workload provisions of the MOU. | | High | |
| 4d. A commitment to work with graduate schools...to develop criteria that ensure prospective CSU faculty have sound training in teaching and learning, particularly in modes of active learning. | | | Very low for the campus | Campuses should focus on hiring faculty with appropriate expectations. |