LOS ANGELES — California State University, which has been buffeted by sexual harassment and bullying allegations, will pay its former chancellor at the center of the controversy hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary for a year and allow him to retain the option to take a faculty position.
According to documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, former Chancellor Joseph I. Castro will receive $401,364 until February 2023 and will be classified as an adviser to the board under the terms of a settlement agreement.
The salary, paid by the chancellor’s office on behalf of the Board of Trustees, is the midpoint between Castro’s final salary as chancellor and the maximum of the salary range for a full-time professor. The settlement keeps in tact a previous agreement for “retreat rights,” allowing him to become a faculty member at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo when he recently resigned as chancellor of the 23-campus system. Castro will have the option to utilize that option next year.
