On the same July day that the UC Board of Regents cut $813 million from UC budgets - setting in motion pay cuts, layoffs and campus cutbacks - the board quietly approved pay raises, stipends and other benefits for more than two dozen executives.University officials were quick to characterize the increased pay in a positive light.
"It's really a story about cost savings," said Barbara French, a UCSF spokeswoman, adding that three people on her campus who won hefty pay increases took on new duties and deserved to be compensated.
No one could have imagined that the upstanding drivers of the UC system would take advantage of the state's fiscal crisis to line their own pockets!
Same O' same O' the UC system is more corrupt than most banana republics---has been for decades.
Posted by: mandt | August 23, 2009 at 04:04 PM
The kind of "socialism" the Rushpubliscums have been practicing for about a hundred years now.
Posted by: JollyRoger | August 23, 2009 at 07:17 PM
It looks like the budget for my dept. will be cut by 45%, yet the district office has a rainy day fund of $23 million they don't want to part with...
And the chancellor of the district just got a large salary increase...
Posted by: The CultureGhost | August 25, 2009 at 06:49 PM
And so it goes.
Posted by: Agi | August 26, 2009 at 07:10 AM
Can you imagine having a job that requires one to mouth such inanities? God, how can she sleep at night?
Posted by: BrianM | August 26, 2009 at 02:29 PM