{"id":8121,"date":"2010-04-13T08:28:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:28:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:28:34","slug":"uc-berkeley-bloated-wasteful-consultants-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/04\/uc-berkeley-bloated-wasteful-consultants-say\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley bloated, wasteful, consultants say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/04\/12\/BAIH1CTI5M.DTL\">UC Berkeley bloated, wasteful, consultants say<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nFor a world-class university studded with Nobel laureates and innovative research, UC Berkeley manages its finances a bit like a sloppy undergrad, a new report suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The campus could save about $75 million a year by streamlining purchases, concentrating job duties and laying off &#8220;redundant&#8221; managers, according to consultants hired last fall to help the school become a leaner operation<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/04\/12\/BAIH1CTI5M.DTL#ixzz0kzxgNagR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle: UC Berkeley bloated, wasteful, consultants say For a world-class university studded with Nobel laureates and innovative research, UC Berkeley manages its finances a bit like a sloppy undergrad, a new report suggests. The campus could save about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/04\/uc-berkeley-bloated-wasteful-consultants-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[8027,4018],"class_list":["post-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-managerial-waste","tag-u-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}