Research and Data Center

Equity Report 2022:
Boldly Forward: Changing Faces of the CSU Faculty and Students Vol. IX

Equity Report 2020:
CHANGING FACES OF CSU FACULTY AND STUDENTS VOL. VIII

Data about CSU faculty demographics and employment trends can be found in the reports, tables, and charts below. Data are normally available for the CSU system as a whole and for each campus. If you are looking for information that you don’t see, contact us to find out if we have it.

You also can find 2015 data in our Race to the Bottom paper series.

Tenure Density

• Tenure Density by Headcount and FTEF, 2012-2018, by Campus (Summary and Detailed Tables)
• CSU Instructional Faculty by Tenure Status, Systemwide, 1985-2018 (Tables) 
• CSU Instructional Faculty by Tenure Status, Systemwide, 1985-2018 (Charts)
• Tenure Density at CSU Campuses, by Headcount, 2012-2016 (Tables)

Cultural Taxation

• Assembly, Spring 2019, Poster. (PDF, Charts and Figures)
• Student to Tenure Line Faculty Ratio, all Campuses, for each race/ethnicity (PDF)

Reports on CSU Faculty and Student Diversity

• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2020. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. VIII
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2018. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. VII
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2016. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. VI
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2014. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. V
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2012. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. IV
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2010. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. III
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2008. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. II
• CFA Equity Conference Report, 2006. “Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students, Vol. I

Find summaries and analyses of the CSU budget and finances on this page. We post reports and data about the CSU budget and share links where additional information is published by the CSU administration and the government.

• The CSU Budget for 2021-22
• CSU Transparency & Accountability Portal

A report from the California Faculty Association on disinvestment and its impact on students in ‘The People’s University’.
Click here to view the Equity Interrupted report

Data on CSU management and executive compensation. You also can find management trends for 2015 in our Race to the Bottom paper series.

CFA receives and summarizes data on management growth on the 23 campuses & the Chancellor’s Office. In the California State University, only the 23 campus presidents and a handful of top administrators at the Chancellor’s Office are considered Executives. The remainder of the administrators and managers are known as “MPPs” – management personnel.

Data regarding CSU Executives

• Executive Compensation Summary, updated Fall 2018
• CSU Executive Compensation History: 2004 to 2012
• CSU Under Chancellor Reed (fact sheet, Sept. 2011)

MPP data – summarized

• Number of CSU Managers and Administrator MPP Employees, by Campus, 2012-2018 (table)
• Number of CSU Managers and Administrators, Systemwide: 1993-2018 (chart) 

Data about CSU student demographics, enrollment, fees, etc.
CFA analyzes and summarizes current information regarding student fees, enrollment trends, demographics, and more. We update these data regularly. Most of these statistics are available for the whole CSU system and for each campus.

Student Fees, Financial Aid: Rising Cost to Attend the CSU

• Tuition history, 2000 to 2017 (chart)
• Facts and Myths about Financial Aid (flyer)
• Student fees vs. executive pay (chart)
• Pell Grants Awarded by Campus 2013-14

This four-part series, released in Spring 2015, analyzes the impact of California State University administration’s priorities and decisions on CSU faculty, students and public higher education.

• Paper 1: CSU’s 10-year Failure to Fund its Core Mission.
• Paper 2: Salary, Staffing Priorities and the CSU’s 1%.
• Paper 3: Losing Ground and Losing Faith.
• Paper 4: The Price Students Pay.

CFA researches and publishes special reports and white papers of interest to the CSU and public higher education, more generally. On occasion, CFA has also contracted with other researchers to produce reports that will help us do our work. Read and review these recent reports here. 

• For-Profit Higher Education and the California State University: A Cautionary Tale (March 2012)
• The CSU Graduation & Achievement Gap Initiative: Doing Our Part to Educate 1 Million More Graduates by 2025 (April  2010)
• “Restructuring” the CSU or Wrecking It? What Proposed Changes Mean and What We Can Do about Them (Winter 2009-10)