The Chronicle: U. of California Regents Vote, Amid Controversy, to Give Top Administrators a Raise
The University of California’s Board of Regents voted on Thursday to increase salaries for senior administrators by an average of 2.5 percent. The raises, although smaller, proportionally, than those recently approved for other university employees, came one day after the regents voted to increase student fees and amid controversy over articles in the San Francisco Chronicle on the salary and perquisites received by top university officials.
L.A. Daily News: UC’s soaring cost Regents have some nerve seeking another fee hike now
The University of California Regents must have a sick sense of humor. What other explanation can there be for their decision to hike fees for the fifth straight year – this time by a whopping 8 percent?
According to a recent investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle, the UC system has doled out massive bonuses, stipends and perks to some 8,500 of its top employees as well as big raises to those at the top end of the wage scale.
To cite just one egregious example, two years go, when UC San Francisco hired David Kessler as the dean of its medical school, it publicly announced a “total compensation” package of $540,000 a year. But that tidy sum was only the beginning. Kessler also got a $125,000 moving allowance, $30,000 to cover six months’ rent, all his moving expenses reimbursed and a low-interest loan for his new home.
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