Closing the book on a contentious salary negotiation that began in 2014, the California State University Board of Trustees voted yesterday to ratify a multi-year contract agreement with the California Faculty Association.

The agreement includes 10.5 percent in raises split over three years for the more than 26,000 faculty, librarians, coaches and counselors across all 23 CSU campuses.

“We are pleased that we managed to avoid a strike and come to a reasonable agreement that takes fair and necessary steps toward resolving long-standing and much-aggrieved salary problems for the faculty,” said Jennifer Eagan, president of the California Faculty Association.

CSU Chancellor Timothy White said he was pleased the agreement had been ratified.

“Investing in our faculty is an investment in our students’ learning and discovery environment, enabling student achievement and degree completion,” White said in a press release.

The strike was averted just before its planned start date after Chancellor White came to the bargaining table after staying out of the process personally for the length of the negotiations.  

For more information on the details of the salary dispute before it was resolved, more information can be found here.