Unfortunately, I feel I must join the voices of others in expressing my dismay with your statements about the CSU employees and with your espoused intentions to run the system like a business Admittedly, my expertise in the field of Economics is limited to two undergraduate classes many years ago, but if memory serves, your intentions to model our system on the principles of business and free enterprise fail the test of face validity. Business, as I recall works on the supposition that the enterprise has a product or service for sale.
Businesses exists to provide a good or service in order to make a profit.
If the above analysis is even close to accurate, your intentions are doomed. The University, in fact all public education, does not derive its worth from a product for sale, we have no product or service for sale. We do not sell information or knowledge, diplomas, students, or degrees. We do not determine our worth from what any market will bear, nor do we pay our employees, determine our capital outlay, reinvestments, or research based on the income derived from such sales. We are actually, a governmental service, much more like a fire department, library or a museum than a business.