There were more than 250,000 people employed by the University of California system in 2007. Of those, 3,018 earned a gross pay of $200,000 or more.Wow, I guess. Meanwhile, we’ve been hearing a lot lately about college and university presidents refusing raises, what with the hard economic times and all. On Saturday, the New York Times joined in the fun (Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay). Big bucks, baby.
Garsh, I wonder if the world knows that the Chancellor of the SOCCCD, the worthless and execrable Raghu P. Mathur, makes about $300,000?
Do you suppose he plans to give some of it back?
That seems unlikely. It turns out that UCI’s Chancellor, Michael Drake, makes $387,000 (plus the use of a fancy schmancy house at the university). Raghu occasionally hobnobs with the Drakester.
My guess is that Tom Fuentes will arrange for another raise for Mr. Goo.
DOUBLE DIPPING AGAIN. Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that
YOUNG REPUBLICANS. Then there’s this:
DOUBLE DIPPING AGAIN. Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that
The University of California plans to review the pay arrangements of hundreds of double dippers — retirees who are collecting their pensions while also having been rehired into jobs, in some cases at salaries that are higher than they received before retiring, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The paper reviewed a university database and reported that it found “widespread violations” of guidelines that limit retired workers to no more than one year of post-retirement employment and generally only for part-time work. At least 440 people were identified as violating the one-year limit and 181 were found to be working full time.BOB JONES SAYS SORRY. IHR also reports that “Bob Jones University has issued a formal apology for its past racist policies, such as refusing to admit black students until 1971 and banning interracial dating until 2000.” Oh good. Back in 2000, Bush spoke there.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS. Then there’s this:
John Fike has resigned as faculty adviser to the Young Conservatives chapter at Texas A&M University at College Station after student members put up posters attacking four professors at the university who had signed a petition defending William Ayers, the one-time Weather Underground leader who is now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The Bryan/College Station Eagle reported. Fike said he was “ashamed beyond words” at the attack on colleagues. The posters suggest that the A&M professors who signed the petition back his Weather Underground views. The petition actually defends his work as an education professor and criticizes the way Republicans attacked him during the presidential campaign. Student leaders of the Young Conservatives responded to Fike’s resignations by questioning whether he really is conservative, and one alleged that he had an Obama sign outside his house.Did you know that Raghu used to advise the Young Republicans here at IVC? Yeah. Plus he's the president of the Indo-American Republican Club of California.
I bet it has no members, though.
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Didn't Barry Munitz, former chancellor of the CSUF system, get hired back at a huge salary after his corrupt and ill fated term at the Getty?
Down here at Southwestern College, in the middle of a budget crisis (we are most certainly not a "basic aid" district)our president, Raj Chopra, and the Board have been talking about cutting class sections and layoffs.
Meanwhile, last Wednesday, Chopra was granted a contract extension through the year 2012 and a 7.9% pay raise.
There's some real leadership, no?
To make things even more interesting, someone googled Chopra's Thanksgiving Day message to employees and found that the entire last paragraph was plagiarized.
--100 miles down the road
Do you think the public is finally awakening to the endless money pit we call education?
About how much do you think top admins should make? Or, how much more than others should they make?
NO one in admin, at a public institution, should earn any more than the top faculty.
period
Dear 100 miles,
You should be happy he plagiarized. If he had to work hard enough to write his own stuff, he'd probably want more money.
Re: Payment -- We should rotate more administrative duties. We all lose sight of the others' side of every problem, and don't appreaciate what each other does.
Granted, there are some administrators who should never be foisted on students, but there are some faculty that shouldn't be also, and are. Also, although some faculty turn into little Hitlers when given any power, rotation promotes disciplinary karma for that too.
It's not without problems, but perhaps some of them could be met by using the resources we'd be saving by cutting down on empire-building and salaries (to say nothing of negotation expenses, costly buy-outs, and endless raise cycles).
I've always wondered why we don't hire adjunct administrators. Pay 'em by the hour and only for the hours they spend in their offices, and give them no medical benefits, retirement, or job security. Sauce for the goose . . .
--100 miles down the road
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