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Charles B. Reed announced Thursday that he would retire as chancellor of the California State University System after 14 years. During that period, Cal State has grown in size by about a quarter (to 427,000 students), implemented several programs that have become national models (including a major initiative to expand outreach to minority and low-income high school students), and shepherded the campuses through one massive budget cut after another. Along the way, even his well-honed political acumen -- he was a former chief of staff to the governor of Florida -- was not enough to satisfy many critics, especially members of Cal State's faculty union.
Reed spent 13 years as chancellor of Florida's public university system before moving to Cal State, meaning that he has overseen two of the country's biggest public university systems for more than 25 years in total.
