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      <p align="left"><b>The latest reports on the scandal at California's Universities:</b></p><p align="left"></p><p style="margin-left: 80px;" align="left"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2369292.html" target="_blank"><big>California auditor says CSU wrong to pay official's $152,441 expenses</big></a><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee</span><br>California

State University reimbursed a high-ranking official in the chancellor's

office $152,441 for expenses he should not have billed to the

university, according to a report released Thursday by the state

auditor. Between July 2005 and July 2008, the official billed CSU for

expensive hotel stays, travel around the world, meals that cost nearly

$167 a head, phone and Internet service at home, and more than $43,000

for commuting between his home in Northern California and his job at

the chancellor's office in Long Beach, according to the audit. The

audit by Elaine Howle does not name the CSU official. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">It says he worked

in the information technology services department and left the

university in July 2008. Howle called attention to the CSU official's

frequent global travel, including trips to Amsterdam, Singapore, London

and Melbourne, Australia. "We found the official took trips that did

not appear to have a clear or demonstrable benefit to the state or

university. In addition, there was no need for the official to

regularly attend nonuniversity events, particularly given the costs

involved," she wrote.</span><br></p><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-calstate4-2009dec04,0,5206069.story" target="_blank">Former Cal State official was improperly reimbursed, audit finds</a><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">David J. Ernst, who was chief of IT services and is now at UC, collected more than $150,000 he shouldn't have, the state says.</span><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">A

former high-ranking California State University official collected more

than $150,000 in improper expense reimbursements, including claims for

unnecessary trips to Amsterdam and Shanghai, meals that exceeded

allowable amounts and travel between his Northern California home and

the university's Long Beach headquarters, a state audit has found. </span>The

audit, released Thursday, scolds the university for a lack of oversight

in approving the expenses, saying they were "unnecessary and not in the

best interest of the university or the state." The report, by the state

auditor's office, comes at a troublesome time for the university

system, which has recently taken a series of controversial actions such

as steep student fee hikes, enrollment reductions and drastic

cost-cutting measures across its 23 campuses to help close a

half-billion-dollar budget gap. Cal State officials said the subject of

the audit was its former chief of information technology services,

David J. Ernst. Ernst left the university in July 2008 for reasons not

related to the audit, the officials said; he is now associate vice

president for information resources and communications at the

University of California.</div><p style="margin-left: 80px;" align="left"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/25/BALA19D3RT.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea" target="_blank">Legislature OKs protections for UC workers</a><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">The

California Legislature approved a bill Monday to give UC employees the

right to sue the university for damages if they are fired for reporting

wrongdoing or unsafe conditions. </span>The measure, approved by the Senate on

a 22-14 vote, is a response to a state Supreme Court ruling last year

that found the state's whistle-blower law protects UC from monetary

claims as long as the university conducts its own investigation and

reaches a conclusion in a specific amount of time. The bill now heads

to the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">Two computer scientists who

worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had sued the

university, claiming they lost their jobs due to their criticisms of

work conditions on a project to determine the safety and reliability of

nuclear weapons on the United States.</span> The state Supreme Court rejected

the suit. "UC executives should not be judge and jury on whether or not

they are liable for monetary claims. This was not the intent of

California's whistle-blower law," said Sen. Leland Yee, D-San

Francisco, who authored the legislation.</p><p style="margin-left: 80px;" align="left"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1956384.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California" target="_blank">UC backs new UC Davis chief, won't probe her role in Illinois controversy</a><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Diana Lambert, Sacramento Bee</span><br>University

of California officials are standing firmly behind their selection of

Linda Katehi as UC Davis chancellor, despite a scandal brewing in a

department she oversees as provost at the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign. The position of UC President Mark Yudof, who had

recommended Katehi for the position, "is that he's 100 percent behind

her and has no reason not to be," said spokesman Peter King. A Chicago

Tribune investigation last month reported that the Illinois university

had put hundreds of applicants � some with weak academic records � on a

list for special consideration after influential people lobbied on

their behalf. The investigation looked at documents and e-mails from

2005 to the present.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" align="left"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/08/MNJC15O8QR.DTL" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 175px; height: 269px; float: left;" alt="" src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/05/01/ba-ucchancellors_0500096191.jpg" hspace="22"></a><big><big><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/15/BANG187M9K.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea" target="_blank">Lawmaker demands answers from new UC Davis head</a></big></big><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle </span><br>The

new chancellor of UC Davis hasn't even arrived yet from the Midwest,

but already she's neck deep in California politics, with a state

lawmaker demanding that she respond to "corruption charges." Incoming

Chancellor Linda Katehi is provost at the University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign, where it was revealed last month by the Chicago

Tribune that about 800 underqualified students won admission to the

prestigious campus only after powerful people intervened. Katehi has

responsibility for student admissions, but was not named in the Tribune

series, called "Clout Goes to College." She takes over at UC Davis on

Aug. 17. The situation - and Katehi's hefty $400,000 salary and

benefits - caught the eye of state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco,

who saw an opportunity to call attention to his bill pushing for more

legislative control over the University of California. Yee says his

bipartisan bill is needed "to hold UC Regents accountable to the people

of California" following regents' efforts in recent years to withhold

financial decisions from the public, and the regents' practice of

raising student fees while also raising top salaries. (Katehi will earn

27 percent more than the current UC Davis chancellor, and the regents

voted last month to raise tuition by 9.3 percent - the sixth increase

in seven years.)</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" align="left"><big><big><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 150px; height: 234px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/11/26/mn-ucpay27_ph1_0499496609_part1.jpg" hspace="22"></big></big><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/08/MNJC15O8QR.DTL" target="_blank"><big><big>UC admits misleading public about buyout-taker</big></big></a><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">UC

Berkeley officials have acknowledged misleading the public in the

controversial case of a high-paid executive aide who left her job at

the university's headquarters and the next day began a new job on the

Cal campus - qualifying for a $100,202 severance check along the way</span>.

In November, when the severance payment became public, The Chronicle

asked for an explanation of how Linda Morris Williams could get a

buyout for leaving her $200,400-a-year headquarters job in Oakland and

starting her new job paying the same salary in the office of UC

Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. Williams and UC Berkeley

spokesman Dan Mogulof released a statement suggesting that the Berkeley

job opportunity had developed coincidentally after she had applied for

the buyout. "At the time of my Voluntary Separation Program

application, the associate chancellor position on the Berkeley campus

was not open and therefore played no role whatsoever in my decision

making," Williams said at the time. In their latest statement, Williams

and Mogulof apologized "for our initial statement that unintentionally

created an impression" that Williams was unaware of the possibility of

future employment at the Berkeley campus.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" align="left"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-outofstate4-2009jan04,0,2413423.story" target="_blank">UC officials debate accepting more non-Californians to boost revenue</a><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Out-of-state and international students could help the public university system cushion cuts in funding</span><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times</span><br>UCLA

sophomore Ying Chen could have stayed at home in New Jersey for

college, but instead she traveled cross-country, where she willingly

pays about $20,000 a year more for her education than most of her

classmates. Some UC officials think that increasing the number of

students like Chen would be a smart way for the university system to

bring in more revenue at a time when the state budget is tight. They

point to other state university systems that enroll much higher

percentages of out-of-state students. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Opponents of the idea warn that

it could squeeze out qualified California students.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;" align="left"><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_UNIVERSITY_BUYOUTS_CAOL-?SITE=CAANR&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank">UC workers paid $682,431 to leave, then rehired</a><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By the Associated Press, Orange County Register</span><br><span style="background-color: yellow;">More

than half a dozen employees at the University of California each

received thousands of dollars in severance payouts even though they

landed new jobs within the system. </span>Robert Stern, president of the

Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, says taking a severance

package from one arm of the university and getting rehired is abuse of

the system.</p>





		

      

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        <p><a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_9327090?nclick_check=1" target="_blank">UC seeks to rein in retirement</a><br><span style="font-style: italic;">By Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times</span><br>After

tough questions from state senators about the rehiring of the retired

UC Berkeley police chief, the University of California said Tuesday it

would strengthen its retirement policies. The university will create

"formal policies" to replace "policylike parameters" that have guided

UC administrators in bringing back retired employees, said UC spokesman

Paul Schwartz. The new rules will better explain under what

circumstances an employee may be rehired, he said. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The reforms follow a

May 6 Senate committee hearing during which lawmakers criticized the

university for allowing UC Berkeley police Chief Victoria Harrison to

retire with a $2.1 million lump-sum payment and then immediately rehire

her last year.</span></p><p><big><big><small style="color: red;">"Most Californians would be shocked to find out they are subsidizing a South Pacific getaway for UC professors"</small></big></big><a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/bayandstate/ci_8908521?nclick_check=1" target="_blank"><br>

        <big><big>UC's research 'paradise' draws ire of lawmakers</big></big></a><br>

        <span style="font-style: italic;">By Steve Geissinger, Contra Costa Times</span><br>

        <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The

University of California has created a little-known South Pacific

station it calls a research "paradise" </span>on what some travelers consider

the most beautiful island in the world. Surrounded by clear waters

white-sand beaches and covered by forests topped by jagged peaks, it's

"UC Berkeley's best-kept secret," declares the Berkeley Science Review.

Real estate agents call it "Fantasy Island." The problem is, critics

say, UC has developed Gump Station on Moorea Island near Tahiti as<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"> a

sweet deal for academic insiders while, at the same time, hiking

already high tuition due to state budget deficits. </span>UC officials

dismissed criticism, saying study of the tropics is important to the

fight against global warming and that the station is a bargain.

        <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Students and professors pay a UC-subsidized price of about $40 per

person nightly for a waterfront bungalow, according to a facility

Internet site. Nearby five-star resorts on Moorea, which is a popular

destination for honeymoons, charge up to about $900 a night for an

over-water bungalow on poles.</span></p>

        <p><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_7758717" target="_blank">Dean says he was forced out<br>

        </a><span style="font-style: italic;">By the Associated Press, Contra Costa Times</span><br>



        <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

Dr. David Kessler, a nationally known public health advocate, says he

was forced out as dean of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine after

raising questions about "financial irregularities." </span>Kessler, who was

appointed to the UCSF job in 2003, said that shortly after arriving, he

found a "series of financial irregularities" that predated his

appointment. He said he reported the issues to university officials and

tried to work with them on the matter.<br>



        <br>



        <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/19/ED54TE19R.DTL&amp;feed=rss.opinion"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/19/ED54TE19R.DTL&amp;feed=rss.opinion">UC: Tin cup, tin ear</a><br>





		</b><i>By the San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Could there be a worse time 

		to offer the University of California's chancellors a huge pay raise?

		</span>The state of California is facing a $10 billion budget shortfall. 

		The last few years have brought executive pay scandals and crippling 

		hikes in student tuition and fees.</p>



        

        <p><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/los_angeles_metro/la-me-ucla14nov14,1,6292938.story?track=rss">UCLA dentist school scandal</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Cheating on licensing exams is probed, and a 

		highly competitive program is accused of giving preferential treatment 

		in admissions<br>





		</font></b><i>By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times <br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The UCLA School of Dentistry 

		was hit by separate scandals Tuesday involving allegations of favoritism 

		toward relatives of deep-pocket donors and student cheating on licensing 

		examinations,</span> university authorities acknowledged. The American 

		Dental Assn. is investigating allegations of cheating by at least a 

		dozen UCLA students as well as students from USC, Loma Linda University 

		and New York University, UCLA officials said. The students were alleged 

		to have improperly obtained questions to a test that is a step toward 

		fulfilling qualifications for a license to practice dentistry.</p>





		

        

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		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/486830.html">

		Regents to consider pay hikes for UC system chancellors</a><br>





		</b><i>By Dorothy Korber, Sacramento Bee<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">At a closed committee 

		meeting Tuesday in Los Angeles, University of California regents will 

		consider a proposal to increase their top executives' pay by 33 percent

		</span>over the next four years. This year, the initial pay increases 

		would range from 13 percent to 17 percent for the chancellors at the 

		UC's 10 campuses. The full Board of Regents is expected to vote on the 

		pay raises Thursday at their regular meeting held at UCLA.</p>





		

        

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		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071112/news_mz1ed12top.html">

		Time to close down CSU's get-rich factory</a><br>





		</b><i>By the San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">California State University 

		board Chairwoman Roberta Achtenberg and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed 

		appear not to comprehend a highly critical state auditor's report on 

		compensation for university executives. </span></p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/482098.html">A 

		peek inside a Sac State foundation</a><br>





		</b><i>By David Holwerk, Sacramento Bee<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">After you've been in this 

		business awhile, certain phrases in news stories make the hair on the 

		back of your neck stand up. I had one of those moments last Wednesday 

		while reading about a report on pay for top executives at California 

		State University.</span></p>





		

        

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		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci9nov09,1,6219004.story?track=rss">

		<font size="4">UC Irvine gave Bren a say in dean selection</font></a><font size="4"><br>





		</font></b><i>By Tony Barboza, Henry Weinstein and Garrett Therolf, Los 

		Angeles Times<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">UC Irvine gave Orange County 

		billionaire Donald Bren the right to be consulted in the selection of a 

		dean for its new law school in return for his $20-million donation</span>, 

		according to documents released to The Times on Thursday. The eight-page 

		gift agreement reveals the scope of what Bren received for his money, 

		ranging from major matters such as selection of the dean to specific 

		rules governing how prominently signs featuring his name were to be 

		displayed on the campus. Signs on law school buildings must read "Donald 

		Bren School of Law" and be at least twice the size of the building name. 

		Bren's must be the largest and most prominently displayed name on the 

		building, according to the agreement. </p>





		

        

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		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/03/BAAOT5MKR.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea">

		UC owes millions in refunds to students, appeals court rules</a><br>





		</b><i>By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle <br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The University of California owes millions of dollars in refunds to 

		about 40,000 students who were promised that their tuition fees would be 

		held steady but were hit with increases in 2003</span> when the state ran short 

		of money, a state appeals court ruled Friday. The First District Court 

		of Appeal in San Francisco upheld a lower court judge's ruling last year 

		that entitles the students to nearly $40 million in reimbursements and 

		interest, said Andrew Freeman, a lawyer for the students. Freeman said 

		that decision by a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">San Francisco Superior Court judge also blocked an 

		additional $20 million in fees that the university had planned to charge 

		to more than 9,000 students at law and medical schools and other 

		professional graduate programs.</span></p>





		

        

        <p><b><font size="4">

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_7103629">

		Poorly packed anthrax gets UC $450,000 fine</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Vials became uncapped in package shipped by 

		Livermore lab<br>





		</font></font></b><i>By the Oakland Tribune<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The University of California 

		has been fined $450,000 for a release of anthrax in September 2005 from 

		a shipped package that was improperly packed at Lawrence Livermore 

		Laboratory, which the university managed until earlier this week</span>. 

		The fine, which came to light Friday during a congressional hearing on 

		the safety and security of biodefense research laboratories, was levied 

		on Sept. 24 by the Department of Health and Human Services. Though the 

		Livermore incident did not result in any human exposure or injuries,

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">it is the largest of 11 fines 

		issued by the HHS Office of the Inspector General since 2003.</span></p>





		

        

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		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/18/BATGS859U.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea">

		As fees rise, CSU execs stand to get 11.8% raises</a><br>





		</b><i>By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle <br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The governing board of the 

		California State University system is poised to award pay increases 

		averaging 11.8 percent to Chancellor Charles Reed, his four chief 

		deputies and 23 campus presidents as part of a plan to significantly 

		boost their salaries over the next few years</span>. The Board of 

		Trustees meets today and Wednesday in Long Beach, and

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">chairwoman Roberta Achtenberg 

		has signaled her intent to raise the executive salaries about 46 percent 

		over the next four years</span>.</p>





		

        

        <p><b><font size="5">

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/20/BAFDRKMES.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea">

		Golden parachutes galore for departing UC prez</a><br>





		</font></b><i>By Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">One thing departing 

		University of California President Robert Dynes won't have to worry 

		about is money.</span> It turns out that Dynes - who was nudged out as 

		UC's top dog after a string of embarrassing stories about the 

		university's liberal pay and perk packages for top managers - is in for 

		a few goodbye goodies himself. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">

		Goodie No. 1: A year off with pay. Goodie No. 2: </span>Now that he has 

		to vacate the UC-provided president's mansion in Kensington, Dynes - 

		like all senior administrators - is eligible for

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">a low-interest home loan</span> 

		to help him relocate. F<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">inally, 

		there's the pension.</span></p>





		

        

        <p>

		<img src="http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/11/04/ba_denton.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="172" hspace="10" width="125"><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_6669001?source=rss">Partner 

		sues over UC Santa Cruz chief's estate</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Woman seeks cut, says chancellor's will had not 

		been updated since they met more than 10 years before her death in 2006<br>





		</font></b><i>By Jennifer Squires, Contra Costa Times<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The partner of Denice Denton 

		says she was mistakenly left out of the late UC Santa Cruz chancellor's 

		will and is suing Denton's estate for $2.25 million.</span> Denton, who 

		died June 24, 2006, after jumping from the 33rd floor of a San Francisco 

		high-rise where her former partner Gretchen Kalonji lived, left her 

		estate to her three siblings. She was 46. Kalonji, her partner of more 

		than 10 years, filed suit in Santa Cruz County Superior Court in June 

		after her attempts to negotiate with Denton's family for a portion of 

		the estate -- which includes at least two homes, a six-figure life 

		insurance policy and more than $700,000 in other assets -- faltered.</p>





		

        

        <p>

		<img src="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070816/images/news-dynes.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="198" hspace="10" width="140"><b><font size="5"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070816-9999-1n16dynes.html">Regents 

		say it was time for Dynes to move on</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Departing UC president denies he was forced out<br>





		</font></font></b><i>By Eleanor Yang Su, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Members of the University of 

		California's governing board spent the past month orchestrating the 

		departure of President Robert C. Dynes after losing confidence in his 

		leadership</span>, officials said yesterday. The behind-the-scenes 

		conversations that took place between regents provided a sharp contrast 

		to Dynes' explanation earlier this week that his departure was prompted 

		by his recent marriage and a long-term plan to serve as president for 

		about five years. Dynes yesterday reiterated that he had not been 

		pressured to resign. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070811-9999-1m11ucsd.html">

		UCSD to go through audit by IRS</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">University reviews are unusual, official says<br>





		</font></b><i>By Eleanor Yang Su, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





		</i>The University of California San Diego is undergoing an IRS audit � 

		an uncommon procedure that may become more prevalent in the coming 

		months. UCSD officials declined to provide many details, except to say 

		the Internal Revenue Service will spend several months reviewing the 

		university's payroll, accounts payable, student accounting and other 

		financial transactions processed in 2005. The campus characterized the 

		audit as �routine.� But <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Marvin 

		Friedlander, chief of the IRS' exempt-organizations technical branch, 

		said university audits are not common at all, although he declined to 

		comment on UCSD specifically. Currently, the IRS audits public 

		universities when it believes business income or employment taxes are 

		not being appropriately reported or paid, he said. </span></p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_webchiu07.24bc85c.html">

		Former UCR administrator pleads</a><br>





		</b><i>By Marisa Agha, Riverside Press-Enterprise<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">A former UC Riverside 

		administrator who was indicted by a federal grand jury on a bribery 

		charge in February, has reached a plea agreement with federal 

		authorities</span>. Theodore Chiu, 54, pleaded guilty last week to 

		soliciting a $50,000 bribe from Irvine-based FTR International Inc., 

		which contracted with the university to construct a psychology building. 

		Chiu was accused of proposing the payment in exchange for resolving the 

		company's concerns about the project.</p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/25/BAG9CPEL5C139.DTL&amp;feed=rss.bayarea">

		Extra pay, perks continue to flow despite scandal</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Officials override rules to give more than $1 

		million to 70 execs<br>





		</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">In the 15 months following 

		the University of California's executive compensation scandal, UC 

		President Robert Dynes and the governing Board of Regents have handed 

		out more than $1 million in extra pay and perks</span> to about 70 top 

		executives. The extra compensation was allowed under rules that let 

		Dynes and the regents grant exceptions to policy -- in effect

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">overriding regulations that 

		otherwise would not allow the payouts</span>. The extras included 

		stipends and bonuses, auto allowances, relocation incentives, 

		below-market home loans, and extended temporary housing for new hires. </p>





		<b><font size="5">

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/18/BAGEIPTFEF1.DTL">

		Regents excuse UC president in salary scandal</a><br>





		</font><font color="#ff0000" size="4">Report essentially gives President 

		Robert Dynes, whose leadership was questioned by some critics, a mere 

		slap on the wrist<br>





		</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>Scores of University of California administrators have been disciplined 

		-- from letters of reprimand to reductions in salary -- for last year's 

		executive compensation scandal, according to a report released Thursday 

		by the UC governing Board of Regents. But the report declined to name 

		the executives or disclose what punishment was meted out to individuals, 

		saying to do so would violate privacy rules. Prepared by the regents' 

		compensation committee and adopted by the full board Thursday meeting at 

		UCSF-Mission Bay, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">the report essentially gives President Robert Dynes, 

		whose leadership was questioned by some critics, a mere slap on the 

		wrist. </span>

		

        

        <p>

		<b><font size="4">

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070518/news_1n18ucaudit.html">

		Staffers disciplined for their roles in UC compensation case</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Dynes largely unscathed<br>





		</font></font></b>By Eleanor Yang Su, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





		Scores of unidentified University of California employees have been 

		disciplined for their roles in a compensation controversy involving 

		millions of dollars in undisclosed executive pay, but UC President 

		Robert Dynes appears to have emerged largely unscathed.

		<font class="newstext"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">A final audit on the topic, conducted by a regent 

		committee and released yesterday, found that Dynes violated policies on 

		more than 20 occasions, often by not seeking regents' approval for 

		senior executives' compensation.&nbsp; The blame often was placed on 

		Dynes' advisers.</span></font></p>





		

        

        <p><b><font size="5">

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/04/BAG79PL5F51.DTL">

		Union calls for closer look at finance experts</a><br>





		</font><font color="#ff0000" size="4">"What concerns us most is that 

		UC's lack of good governance policies might allow even more serious 

		conflicts or other problems that have not yet been uncovered"<br>





		</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>A University of California employees union is calling for closer 

		scrutiny of the financial holdings of some outside experts who

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">recommend how UC's 

		multibillion-dollar asset and retirement portfolios should be invested</span>. 

		According to the union, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">some of 

		the unpaid advisers to the governing Board of Regents have a financial 

		stake in or a direct family connection to companies that manage hundreds 

		of millions of dollars in UC investment accounts.</span> "The conflicts 

		that (the union) has uncovered show that

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">UC's pension-governance policies 

		are so lax that even fairly obvious conflicts are passing unnoticed,"</span> 

		said Faith Raider, a research analyst for the 19,000-member American 

		Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299. </p>





		

        

        <p><b><font size="5">

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/24/BAGA7PE6RS1.DTL">

		$7 million study will seek savings in UC chief's office</a><br>





		</font><font color="#ff0000" size="4">Dynes' office under scrutiny in 

		the wake of revelations that UC officials violated university policies 

		in awarding hidden compensation and special perks to some top executives</font><font size="5"><br>





		</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>The University of California has

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">hired a consultant for about $7 

		million to study how to most efficiently reorganize the office of 

		President Robert Dynes</span>. It's

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">part of an effort to save money</span> 

		in the university's financial and administrative operations and shift 

		those savings to other needs, such as increasing salaries, reducing 

		class sizes and improving facilities, said UC Regents Chairman Richard 

		Blum. The new <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">study -- which did 

		not need approval from the Board of Regents because it is below a $10 

		million threshold requiring a board vote -- will be paid for by a loan

		</span>from the university's endowment. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/18/BAGO2PAKFC1.DTL">

		Lawmakers OK audit of CSU salary practices</a><br>





		</b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Special perks and extra 

		compensation awarded to top executives of the California State 

		University system must be investigated by state auditors</span>, a 

		California legislative committee decided Tuesday. The Joint Legislative 

		Audit Committee voted unanimously to explore CSU's spending practices 

		just as it did last year after a pay scandal enveloped the University of 

		California system. The committee's action Thursday followed an 

		investigative series by The Chronicle last summer that found that as 

		much as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">$4 million in special 

		perks and extra compensation has been paid to departing CSU officials 

		during the past decade without public disclosure by the chancellor or 

		the Board of Trustees</span>. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/142015.html">

		CSU, UC exec pay defended</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">System chiefs admit some mistakes but say hikes 

		justified<br>





		</font></b><i>By Judy Lin, Sacramento Bee<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">State lawmakers on Wednesday 

		grilled the two leaders of California's public university systems for 

		handing out millions in what they said was excessive compensation to 

		executives and urged them to close all lingering loopholes.</span></p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/16/MNG4GOMICH1.DTL">

		UC officials told to get tough on pay</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Regents order administrators to create plans that 

		would prevent improper compensation<br>





		</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The top administrators at 

		the University of California's campuses and a research laboratory were 

		told Thursday to come up with policies and procedures to prevent 

		overpayment of vacations, improper payment of honoraria and other 

		financial mistakes </span>that have embarrassed university officials in 

		the past. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/28/BAGJ9OCH9V1.DTL">

		UC exempt from $1.1 million fine levied for Los Alamos lab mishaps</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">The fine would have been the largest single civil 

		penalty in the history of the Nuclear Safety Enforcement Program</font></b>

		<b><br>





		</b><i>By Keay Davidson, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>The federal government has recommended that the University of 

		California pay a $1.1 million fine for incidents at Los Alamos National 

		Laboratory that resulted in 15 nuclear safety violations, including a 

		case in which an employee accidentally spread radioactive material to 

		three states and episodes in which workers inhaled radioactivity. The 

		university won't have to pay the fine, however, because at the time of 

		the incidents in 2005, its federal contract for managing the lab 

		exempted it from financial liability for such mishaps. Otherwise,

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">the fine would have been "the 

		largest single civil penalty in the history of the (U.S. Energy 

		Department's) Nuclear Safety Enforcement Program," </span>Thomas P. 

		D'Agostino, acting administrator of the U.S. National Nuclear Security 

		Administration, said in a Feb. 16 letter to UC Vice President S. Robert 

		Foley Jr. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-calstate24jan24,1,2408814.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		Raises OKd for Cal State presidents</a><br>





		</b><i>By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i>Trustees of the Cal State University system Tuesday approved 4%

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">salary raises for the 23 campus 

		presidents and five other top officials</span>. The move, retroactive to 

		July, was strongly opposed by the faculty union, which is in stalled 

		salary negotiations with the university. "I'm disappointed. I think it 

		sends a signal to everybody that the priorities of the board are with a 

		relatively small group of people," said John Travis, president of the 

		California Faculty Assn. With the raises, most of those

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">administrators will earn well 

		over $240,000 a year,</span> but trustees said that their average pay 

		remains significantly lower than at comparable institutions nationwide.

		</p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/23/BAGU1NN72J1.DTL">

		Top Cal State executives are in line for 4% salary hike</a><br>





		<font color="#dc143c">Lawmakers cry foul as student fees are going up, 

		faculty pay talks bogging down<br>





		</font></b><i>By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Twenty-eight of the 

		California State University system's highest-paid executives are in line 

		for another pay raise this week</span> --

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">just days after students learned 

		they could face a 10 percent tuition increase next fall</span>. The 

		executive salary increase, scheduled to be considered today in Long 

		Beach by the Board of Trustees, has drawn fire from state lawmakers who 

		have criticized the chancellor for seeking additional pay while the 

		faculty is bogged down in labor negotiations. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/14/BAGRNNIHHB1.DTL">

		All 230,000 UC employees required to take ethics course</a><br>





		</b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">In the wake of last year's 

		executive compensation scandal</span>, the University of California is 

		requiring every employee -- from President Robert Dynes down to the guy 

		who empties his trash basket -- to complete an online course about 

		ethics. The course, which takes about 30 minutes, is designed to brief 

		UC's 230,000 employees on the university's expectations about ethics, 

		values and standards of conduct. Members of UC's 26-member governing 

		Board of Regents, including ex officio members such as Gov. Arnold 

		Schwarzenegger, are supposed to complete the training too. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla22dec22,1,6475306.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		UC regents vote unanimously to hire the University of Virginia provost, 

		who will take the reins by Aug. 1</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Pay will be nearly $100,000 more than that of his 

		predecessor, Albert Carnesale</font><br>





		</b><i>By Rebecca Trounson and Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i>University of California regents on Thursday unanimously approved 

		the appointment of University of Virginia Provost Gene D. Block as 

		UCLA's next chancellor, bringing to an end a search process that began 

		more than a year ago. Block, a 58-year-old biologist, will take over 

		from interim Chancellor Norman Abrams by Aug. 1. The UC board, which has 

		spent months dealing with fallout from a debilitating controversy over 

		previously undisclosed � and what

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">some critics termed excessive � 

		compensation for top UC administrators, approved a base salary for Block 

		of $416,000 a year</span>.</p>





		

        

        <blockquote>

			

          

          <p>

			<img src="http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/12/22/ba_ucla_chancellor_l.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="115" hspace="10" width="150"><b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/22/BAG7DN4FTO1.DTL">UCLA's 

			new chancellor comes from Virginia</a><br>





			</b><i>By Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>The campus' ninth chancellor, Block will receive an annual 

			salary of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">$416,000, putting 

			him on par with his UC Berkeley counterpart and well above the 

			$323,600 salary of former UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale, who 

			retired in June</span>. </p>





		</blockquote>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci22dec22,1,2217723.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		UCI names vice chancellor to oversee health affairs</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Dr. David N. Bailey, who will also be dean of the 

		medical school, hopes to reform the university's scandal-plagued 

		programs and hospital<br>





		</font></b><i>By Roy Rivenburg, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i>The linchpin of UC Irvine's plan to reform its scandal-plagued 

		medical programs fell into place Thursday with the hiring of Dr. David 

		N. Bailey as vice chancellor for health affairs. The new position, which 

		will oversee UCI's medical school and hospital, begins April 1. Bailey 

		comes to UCI after three decades at UC San Diego, where he now serves as 

		interim medical school dean and interim vice chancellor for health 

		services. A graduate of Yale University, Bailey is also a professor of 

		pathology and director of UC San Diego's toxicology lab.

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Bailey will receive a base 

		salary of $512,000 at UCI</span>.</p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/BAGAAMPI351.DTL">

		UC enters era of consultants, public relations</a><br>





		</b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francsico Chronicle<br>





		</i>The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">University of California 

		has spent about $500,000 trying to figure out what people think of the 

		university and how it can change the public's perception</span>. It 

		appears to be an uphill climb. UC consultants have found, for example, 

		that some middle-income parents think they can't afford to send their 

		kids to UC, and various high school counselors, befuddled by the murky 

		admissions process, tell students they can't get in and shouldn't even 

		try. And <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">the public thinks UC 

		wastes money and spends too much on executive pay </span>-- an 

		impression that existed even before UC was rocked by a scandal over its 

		compensation practices. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/16/BAGJGMDIPA17.DTL">

		UC leader declines a pay raise</a><br>





		</b><i>By Carrie Sturrock, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">President Robert Dynes will 

		not get a raise at his request following a year of controversy over UC's 

		executive compensation practices</span>, the university system's 

		governing Board of Regents announced Wednesday. In agreeing not to 

		consider him for a raise, the regents nonetheless expressed their 

		unanimous "unconditional" support for Dynes' leadership. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-calstate16nov16,1,1290129.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		Activists protest Cal State perks</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Demonstrators march on CSU offices to rally 

		against what they say are lavish benefits for administrators<br>





		</font></b><i>By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">About 1,000 faculty and 

		students rallied Wednesday in Long Beach outside a meeting of the 

		California State University trustees to protest what they said are 

		lavish benefits for administrators</span> and stalled contract talks 

		between professors and the 23-campus system. At one point, demonstrators 

		disrupted the meeting with chants, such as "End of perks," and a group 

		of 22 professors linked arms and sat down in front of the trustees' 

		desks. Amid the noise, the board dropped normal procedures and with a 

		quick voice vote approved items discussed in committees.

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">That included changes to a 

		controversial policy that gave top administrators a year's pay after 

		they left their jobs but before their actual retirements.</span></p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_4647149">

		CSU faculty to rally against administration</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Protesters say university is spending money on 

		executives, not fighting soaring student fees<br>





		</font></b><i>By Michelle Maitre, Oakland Tribune<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">As many as 1,000 California 

		State University faculty members</span> are expected to rally Wednesday 

		at the Board of Trustees meeting in Long Beach

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">to protest what they say are 

		misplaced priorities of university administration.</span> Union 

		officials say administrators are spending too much money on executives 

		and aren't doing enough to fight soaring fees that are making it hard 

		for students to stay in school or to address sagging faculty and staff 

		salaries. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">"We believe that they 

		have not been representing the real and true needs of the CSU and that 

		they misallocated the resources" on factors such as transitional pay 

		programs for top executives and other expenses, </span>said John Travis, 

		a Humboldt State University professor who is president of the California 

		Faculty Association. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/11/BAGETMAKBM1.DTL">

		Chancellor hopes to keep CSU perk</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Reed wants current execs to be exempt from new 

		restrictions<br>





		</font></b><i>By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>The chancellor of the California State University system is 

		proposing to modify a controversial executive benefit that allows some 

		top officials to continue collecting paychecks for a year after leaving 

		their jobs. Reed, his<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> four top 

		deputies, and 17 of CSU's 23 campus presidents would be eligible to stay 

		on the payroll for an extra year after leaving the university -- 

		regardless of how long they worked for CSU</span>, whether they plan to 

		return to the university, and whether they accept other employment.<font size="4">

		</font> </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chancellor4nov04,1,7420698.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		Ex-chancellor in hospital before suicide</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Denice Dee Denton had been released from a 

		Bay Area psychiatric facility the previous day<br>





		</font></b><i>By the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i>A former <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">University of 

		California chancellor was discharged from a psychiatric hospital just a 

		day before she plummeted to her death from a city apartment building,</span> 

		according to a report released Friday. Denice Dee Denton, 46, committed 

		suicide June 24 by jumping from the roof of the 43-story Paramount 

		high-rise, according to a San Francisco medical examiner's 

		investigation. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Denton was 

		suffering from severe depression and had spent the six days before her 

		death at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in San Francisco</span>, 

		the report said. Her doctor had <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">

		prescribed her the antidepressant Zoloft and the sleep aid Ambien, and 

		antidepressants were present in her system when she died</span>. Denton 

		came under fire in the two years before her death for d<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">emanding 

		expensive remodeling to her campus home and for helping her partner 

		secure a top-paying university position</span>. Denton's mother, Carolyn 

		Mabee, told investigators that her daughter "was under severe stress" 

		from her job and her relationship with her partner, the report said. 

		Mabee said Denton was "acting completely irrationally" after being 

		picked up from the hospital and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">

		believed "that the police had been chasing her," </span>according to the 

		report. </p>





		

        

        <p align="center">

		<img src="http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/11/04/ba_denton.jpg" border="0" height="300" width="217"></p>





		

        

        <p align="center"><b><font size="2">&nbsp;Denice Denton died after 

		plunging from a 42-story San Francisco apartment building on June 24.

		</font></b></p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/04/BAGH0M68B61.DTL">

		Chancellor's final days before jump from roof</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">UC Santa Cruz official treated for severe 

		depression, report says<br>





		</font></b><i>By Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>Shortly before jumping to her death from the roof of a 42-story San 

		Francisco building in June, UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton spent 

		six days at a psychiatric facility in San Francisco, according to a 

		medical examiner's report released Friday. </p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-berkeley28oct28,1,7127429.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		A money gap and a brain drain</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">UC Berkeley, long on reputation but short on 

		funding, is losing talent<br>





		</font></b><i>By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i>Corey Goodman and Carla Shatz had a grand vision for UC Berkeley: to 

		build the greatest neuroscience program in the world, to figure out how 

		healthy brains work, and to use that understanding to cure disease. They 

		wanted a place where chemists and physicists, geneticists and other 

		scientists could work alongside neurobiologists like themselves to 

		unlock the secrets of the body's most mysterious organ. They wanted to 

		change the world. The university wanted them to do it. But

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">there was no money to build 

		their neuroscience center or equip their hoped-for high-tech 

		laboratories</span>. Today, Shatz is pursuing similar research at 

		Harvard Medical School, and Goodman is the chief executive of a 

		biotechnology company that develops drugs to treat neurological disease.</p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/81024.html">

		First 5 draws scrutiny for use of researchers</a><br>





		</b><i>By GRETCHEN WENNER, Bakersfield Californian<br>





		</i>A simple question is slamming doors fast at the local tobacco-tax 

		agency, First 5 Kern. That is: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">

		Who has oversight of its contract with Cal State Bakersfield 

		researchers? </span>At stake is the thorny issue of who's ultimately 

		responsible for how some $3 million of public First 5 Kern funds were 

		spent by former faculty researchers -- one of whom received a monthly 

		car lease payment from First 5 with apparently little more than a 

		handshake.</p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-csf27oct27,1,7001882.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

		Audit of CSU Fullerton shows past fiscal abuse</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">Shoddy business practices and financial 

		mismanagement, state report says<br>





		</font></b><i>By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i>Cal State Fullerton's business operations were rife with 

		mismanagement and waste, including an instance in which husband and wife 

		administrators oversaw millions of dollars in spending involving a 

		corporation he owned stock in, according to a state audit.

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The audit found that from 

		January 2001 through December 2004 there was "waste and abuse," poor 

		record-keeping, shoddy business practices and financial mismanagement. 

		The audit found that employees feared retaliation if they reported 

		waste, fraud or abuse</span>.</p>





		

        

        <p><b>

		<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-losalamos25oct25,1,7876181.story?coll=la-headlines-nation">

		Another breach at Los Alamos</a><br>





		<font color="#ff0000">What appear to be classified files from the 

		nuclear lab are seized in a trailer park drug raid<br>





		</font></b><i>By the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times<br>





		</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">A drug raid at a trailer park in New Mexico turned up what appeared 

		to be classified documents taken from the Los Alamos</span> nuclear weapons 

		lab, the FBI said Tuesday. Police found the documents while arresting a 

		man suspected of domestic violence and dealing methamphetamine from his 

		mobile home, said Sgt. Chuck Ney of the Los Alamos, N.M., Municipal 

		Police Department. The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">documents were discovered during a search of the 

		man's records for evidence of his drug business</span>, Ney said. Police 

		alerted the FBI to the classified documents, which agents traced back to 

		a woman linked to the drug dealer, officials said. The woman is a 

		contract employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to an FBI 

		official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive 

		nature of the case. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061018/news_7m18sdsu.html">

			CSU trustees cancel SDSU meeting</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Campus gathering's cost was criticized<br>





			</font></b><i>By Lisa Petrillo, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





			</i>San Diego State University professors yanked the red carpet out 

			from under their bosses. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The 

			uninvite happened yesterday after some SDSU faculty balked at the 

			estimated $225,000 cost to host the California State University 

			board of trustees' March meeting.</span> Holding their two-day 

			meeting at SDSU would mark the first time trustees took a road trip 

			since suspending such travel in 2004 during the state's budget 

			crisis. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Professors 

			complained the trip was tantamount to university executives ordering 

			champagne when faculty and students subsisted on meatloaf.</span> 

			�It's outrageous the university administration wanted to spend this 

			kind of money on itself when we are really hurting,� said English 

			professor Peter Herman. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">

			�Class sizes are ballooning beyond reason; the quality of 

			instruction is getting more threadbare.�</span> </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/06/BAGS0LK72H1.DTL">

			CSU board accused of politics</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Dem questions cancellation of pre-election 

			meeting with vote expected on student fees<br>





			</font></b><i>By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>Election-year politics spilled over into budget considerations 

			for the California State University system Thursday, with a top 

			state Democrat insinuating that university trustees may be trying to 

			shield the GOP governor from potential criticism over student fee 

			increases. In a letter to the CSU Board of Trustees, Assembly 

			Speaker Fabian N��ez demanded to know

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">why the board recently 

			canceled its Oct. 26 meeting. That meeting was to consider the 

			university's proposed budget for fiscal 2007-2008, as well as a 

			possible student fee increase</span>. Now those matters won't come 

			up until after the gubernatorial election in November. </p>





			

        

        <blockquote>

				

          

          <p><b>

				<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-csu6oct06,1,4908275.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

				Cal State Leaders Postpone Budget Vote Until After Election</a><br>





				</b><i>By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times<br>





				</i>Assembly Speaker Fabian Nu�ez has asked California State 

				University leaders to explain why a university budget meeting 

				typically held in October has been pushed back several weeks, 

				and will now occur after the November election. Nu�ez, who is a 

				Cal State board member because of his state office, said he

				<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">would be disturbed to 

				learn that university officials or trustees, some of whom were 

				appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, "allowed election 

				politics to impact the timing" of a budget vote.</span></p>





			</blockquote>





			

        

        <p align="left"><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/28/EDG6PKDU6U1.DTL">

		Higher ed's senior moments</a><br>





		</b><i>By Debra J. Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





		</i>File this under: Why am I not surprised? 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Seniors at the University 

		of California know less about American history, government and politics 

		than freshmen</span>.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_willedside23.99f997.html">

			Past scandals spur programs to change</a><br>





			</b><i>By LAURIE LUCAS, Riverside Press-Enterprise<br>





			</i>The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">head of the 

			willed-body program at UC Irvine was fired in 1999</span> after 

			being <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">accused of selling 

			spines on the black market</span>, and the

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">director of UCLA's program 

			was arrested on similar charges in 2004.</span></p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla29sep29,1,1157730.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

			UCLA Agrees to 'Holistic' Approach to Admissions</a><br>





			</b><i>By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times<br>





			</i>UCLA announced Thursday that it will shift immediately to a more 

			"holistic" student admissions process, much like UC Berkeley's, in 

			which all facets of each applicant can be considered at once by 

			admissions reviewers. Some details remain to be worked out, but the 

			announcement came after the third of three faculty panels, all of 

			which had to approve the plan, endorsed it this week. The move had 

			been expected; the revisions have been strongly backed by acting 

			Chancellor Norman Abrams and key faculty leaders. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/25556.html">

			CSU, union aim for mediation</a><br>





			</b><i>By the Sacramento Bee<br>





			</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">California State University administrators and the union 

			representing faculty members have been unable to reach an agreement 

			on a new salary plan</span>. After negotiating for 18 months, CSU wants an 

			impasse declared with the California Faculty Association, in order 

			to bring in a third-party mediator to broker a contract. The faculty 

			association, which represents more than 22,000 faculty members and 

			lecturers at 23 CSU campuses, supports the idea. 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">CSU officials say 

			they offered a proposal that includes a 24.87 percent salary 

			increase over four years,</span> beginning in 2006-07. Jackie R. McClain, 

			CSU vice chancellor for human resources, said she was "disappointed" 

			that the "generous salary increase" was rejected.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_4360766">

			Report: UC struggling with mental health services</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Understaffed, underfunded programs on campuses 

			present risk to students<br>





			</font></b><i>By Michelle Maitre, Oakland Tribune<br>





			</i>In a very personal plea last year, Victor and Mary Ojakian 

			called on University of California officials to do more to prevent 

			student suicides. Their son, Adam, 21, a senior at UC Davis, had 

			committed suicide just nine months before. Unknown to his parents, 

			Adam was in a despondency the Ojakians believe was exacerbated by 

			intense academic pressure and negativity from campus officials. A 

			new report says the Ojakians have reason to be concerned. 

			Understaffed and underfunded, mental health services on UC campuses 

			struggle to maintain their role as the safety net for students. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pe.com/digitalextra/metro/immigration/vt_stories/PE_News_Local_D_navarro18.3a435c3.html">

			Professor is man of many battles</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">UCR ethnic studies professor is in Mexico City 

			protesting</font><br>





			</b><i>By SHARON McNARY, Riverside Press-Enterprise<br>





			</i>Armando Navarro, the longtime Inland activist for immigrant and 

			Latino rights, is in Mexico today, deep into at least his third 

			political battle this year. "We're going into a very precarious, 

			explosive, volatile situation," said the

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">UCR ethnic studies 

			professor, who is in Mexico City protesting the narrow loss by a 

			candidate in July's Mexican presidential election</span>. Earlier 

			this summer, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">he fought 

			against a San Bernardino city initiative that would have made it 

			illegal to hire or rent homes to undocumented immigrants.</span> The 

			initiative failed to reach the ballot after a judge ruled it had too 

			few signatures.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/BAGPJL5DHN1.DTL">

			Job suits cost UC $12 million in 3 years</a><br>





			</b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>The University of California

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">paid out at least $12 

			million over three years on employment lawsuits involving 

			allegations such as sexual harassment, discrimination and 

			"consensual relations" between faculty and students,</span> 

			according to an internal audit and letter obtained by The Chronicle. 

			The payout covers <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">cases 

			arising out of the 10 campuses, various medical centers and two 

			national laboratories </span>-- Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence 

			Berkeley -- under UC's management.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci6sep06,1,2680043.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

			2 UCI Doctors Face State Inquiry</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">No reason is given for medical board's look at 

			anesthesiology department head and a former vice chair<br>





			</font></b><i>By Roy Rivenburg, Los Angeles Times<br>





			</i>The state medical board said it was investigating the chairman 

			and former vice chairwoman of UC Irvine's anesthesiology department, 

			adding to the turmoil swirling around the school's medical programs. 

			State medical board officials wouldn't reveal why they were 

			investigating Dr. Peter Breen, the chairman, or Dr. Anne Wong, the 

			former vice chairwoman, but a board spokeswoman said Tuesday that 

			the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">inquiry involved</span> 

			allegations already on public record. If so, the probe might be 

			focused on <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">claims made in a 

			wrongful-termination lawsui</span>t filed a year ago in Orange 

			County Superior Court by former professor Dr. Glenn Provost.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-animals6sep06,1,858927.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

			UCLA Presents Distorted Image of Animal Testing, Activists Allege</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">The university's research is irrelevant and is 

			done to attract grant money<br>





			</font></b><i>By Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times<br>





			</i>Animal rights activists <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">

			accused UCLA officials Tuesday of painting a distorted picture</span> 

			of animal testing on campus and questioned its relevance. At a news 

			conference in front of the administration building, Michael Budkie, 

			head of a nonprofit group called Stop Animal Exploitation Now!, said 

			that test animals are "so stressed they are mutilating their own 

			bodies" and that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">UCLA 

			sponsors research to attract grant money</span>. Budkie, whose 

			Ohio-based organization provides research for animal rights 

			activists, made public several pages of what he said were 

			handwritten lab observation notes on primate subjects at UCLA. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-meet3sep03,1,2002795.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

			Faculty Suit Against Cal State's Hiring of Barry Munitz to Proceed</a><br>





			</b><i>By the Los Angeles Times<br>





			</i>A teachers group has won a partial victory in its challenge to

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">the secret hiring of ousted 

			former J. Paul Getty Trust chief Barry Munitz by California State 

			University</span> trustees. A judge on Friday rejected the trustees' 

			request that the faculty lawsuit be thrown out of Los Angeles County 

			Superior Court, and it will be pursued, according to John Travis, 

			president of the California Faculty Assn. Munitz was hired behind 

			closed doors in February to teach and raise funds after resigning 

			from the Getty amid an investigation into alleged misuse of charity 

			funds. He is being paid $163,776 �

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">almost double the top salary 

			of $85,000 for a Cal State professor with 20 years of teaching 

			experience</span>. Munitz was chancellor of the Cal State system 

			until he left to head the Getty nine years ago. The faculty group 

			challenged the Munitz appointment, alleging that

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">it was not made in a meeting 

			open to the public, as required by law.</span></p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060901/news_1n1audit.html">

			Former UC official said to misuse money</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Audit: Funds spent thousands on meals, hotels<br>





			</font></b><i>By the Associated Press, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





			</i>A former associate vice chancellor at the University of 

			California Berkeley misspent almost

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">$2,000 </span>in university 

			funds <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">on extravagances such 

			as personal meals and hotel rooms</span>, according to a university 

			audit released yesterday. George Strait was a one-time ABC News 

			correspondent hired by UC Berkeley in January 2003 to oversee public 

			affairs. He was often the university's point person on news stories, 

			including a hacker attack on university computers last summer. 

			University auditors, tipped by a whistle-blower, obtained documents 

			for Strait's travel and entertainment expenses from when he was 

			hired until February. The audit found that 28 reimbursed expenses 

			totaling $1,969.72 were improper.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/30/BAGVCKRKI21.DTL">

			New head of campus diversity at Cal heading for big paycheck</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">A job that not only has an impressive title, 

			but an equally impressive salary<br>





			</font></b><i>By Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, San Francisco 

			Chronicle<br>





			</i>UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has just announced he's 

			creating the new post of vice chancellor for equity and inclusion --<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 

			a job that not only has an impressive title, but an equally 

			impressive salary of between $182,000 and $282,000 a year. Plus an 

			office budget in excess of $4 million.</span> The goal isn't so much 

			to recruit more minorities but rather to ensure students, faculty 

			and staff are "fully respected for their individuality and what they 

			represent," Birgeneau said. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060830/news_1n30ucbill.html">

			Shelving of UC regents bill has some thinking scandal</a><br>





			</b><i>By Eleanor Yang Su, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





			</i>Earlier this month, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">a 

			high-profile bill that would have required University of California 

			regents to consider the compensation of high-ranking executives in 

			public was indefinitely shelved</span>. The list of supporters for 

			AB 775 was long, including UC's council of faculty associations, 

			UC's student association and several unions representing UC 

			employees. Opponents included UC's administration and a small group 

			of business leaders, who argued that the bill would make it 

			difficult to recruit talent and would be too costly to implement. 

			Now, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">some are raising 

			questions about the timing of the holdup, as well as the 

			disbursement of more than $200,000 in contributions from UC regents 

			and friends of the university to a political action committee run by 

			Senate President Pro Tempore Don Perata</span>. Perata sidelined the 

			legislation.</p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060827/news_1n27dynes.html">

			A bumpy tenure</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Under fire for giving questionable pay and 

			perks to executives<br>





			</font></b><i>By Eleanor Yang Su, San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





			</i>Since last fall,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> Dynes 

			and his administration in Oakland have been criticized sharply for 

			awarding questionable pay and perks to executives without proper 

			disclosure</span>. The payouts, revealed in newspaper reports, 

			triggered legislative hearings, audits and calls by three state 

			senators for Dynes' removal. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/24/BAG32KO1CN1.DTL">

			Ex-provost's son at center of internship controversy is hired full 

			time</a><br>





			</b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>An internal <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">audit</span> 

			released in December on James Greenwood's hiring found that Vice 

			President Winston Doby had<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> 

			improperly helped create and fund an internship tailored 

			specifically for his boss' son without opening the job to any other 

			candidate. </span></p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060819/news_lz1ed19bottom.html">

			Open up: Senate, UC close the door on UC pay</a><br>





			</b><i>By the San Diego Union-Tribune<br>





			</i>Why would the California Senate ditch a bill to make the 

			committees of the University of California regents decide specific 

			top executives' compensation in open session?

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Why oppose transparency when 

			numerous audits show that in spite of UC policy many top UC 

			officials' extra pay and perks were never disclosed to the regents, 

			much less the public?</span> </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/19/BAG2DKLDH01.DTL">

			Lawyer, doctor picked as UC regents </a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Governor appoints Republicans, both alumni of 

			system<br>





			</font></b>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">two well-connected Southern 

			California Republicans</span> to the University of California Board 

			of Regents on Friday, filling two vacancies on the 26-member body. 

			Bruce Varner, 69, a civically involved Redlands lawyer whose clients 

			include grocery chain Stater Brothers, is

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">a friend and contributor to 

			longtime Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis </span>of Redlands (San 

			Bernardino County). <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Lewis, 

			who is under federal investigation for his ties to lobbyists and 

			contractors, wrote a letter supporting Varner for regent last fall</span>. 

			As lawyer for Stater Bros., which is privately held, Varner helped 

			negotiate the purchase of 160 acres of the former Norton Air Force 

			Base to build a new $300 million company headquarters and 

			distribution center. Varner is a board member of Security Bank of 

			California. Lewis and his wife bought $22,000 worth of shares in the 

			bank in 2005. His campaign bought an additional $25,000 worth.

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Since Lewis' purchase, the 

			share price has tripled</span>.

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Varner has contributed 

			$4,000 to Lewis. His wife and son have each contributed an 

			additional $2,000. He contributed $5,000 in April to 

			Schwarzenegger's re-election campaign.</span></p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/16/EDG0UKJ0NB1.DTL">

			Brighten the light on UC?</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Let taxpayers know how their money is being 

			spent<br>





			</font></b><i>By Leland Yee, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>Following a series of audits, a public-interest lawsuit and 

			intense media coverage, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">it is now known that the University of 

			California administration failed to obtain or even ask for public 

			approval from the UC Board of Regents for bloated compensation 

			packages for numerous top executives</span>, likely costing taxpayers 

			millions of dollars. To help prevent future backroom deals, I have 

			introduced legislation requiring public meetings for all discussions 

			regarding UC executives' compensation. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-potkin13aug13,1,7814898.story?coll=la-headlines-california">

			Probes Targeted UCI Researcher</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Alleged ethical and financial breaches drew 

			scrutiny but no sanctions -- professor defends his activities<br>





			</font></b><i>By Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times <br>





			</i>UCI psychiatry professor Steven G. Potkin is one of UCI's 

			biggest stars. The 60-year-old psychiatrist is among the 

			university's most prolific researchers. 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">He brings in lucrative 

			contracts from some of the world's biggest drug companies and has 

			presided over as many as a dozen clinical trials at a time</span>. But at 

			the same time Potkin has attracted funding and recognition for UCI, 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">he has also been investigated three times by the university for 

			alleged ethical or financial breaches</span>, according to more than 300 

			pages of documents obtained by The Times. And although Potkin says 

			he was not disciplined as a result the investigations, each raised 

			serious questions about his practices and how UCI dealt with the 

			issues. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/04/BAGENKB8LT1.DTL">

			UC barred from deciding pay packages in private</a><br>





			</b><i>By Patrick Hoge, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">An Alameda County judge has ruled that a committee of the UC 

			Board of Regents cannot decide behind closed doors whether to 

			recommend pay packages for top officials</span>. The ruling said the 

			University of California's regent committees cannot make "a 

			collective decision'' in closed session on possible future action to 

			be taken concerning compensation matters.</p>





			

        

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            <p><b>

					<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/04/EDG83KAVDS1.DTL">

					Faculty, not administrators, make a quality university</a><br>





					</b><i>By Christopher M. Witko, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





					</i>Academia is frequently derided for being out of touch 

					with the "real world." One real-world trend that has hit the 

					academy is the practice of awarding 

					<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">ever-increasing 

					compensation to executives while the wages of most employees 

					remain stagnant </span>or even decline and the quality of service 

					provided to students deteriorates. </p>





					

            

            <p><b>

					<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_H_op_28_ed_raises1.13b234d.html">Easy spending</a><br>





					</b><i>By the Riverside Press-Enterprise<br>



            </i>

					<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The University of California's Board of Regents should show more respect 

	for the taxpayers</span>. The UC system is embroiled in a scandal over secret 

	compensation deals and lavish perks. So what do the regents do last week? 

	Approve large raises for top executives.</p>





					

            

            <p><b>

					<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/14282942p-15090764c.html">Auditing the academy: Time to get answers in CSU pay mess</a><br>





					</b><i>By the Sacramento Bee<br>



            </i>

					<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Pay arrangements in a public university system are supposed to serve the 

	state's interest in strong academic institutions, not the personal financial 

	interests of administrators</span>. That may seem obvious, but unfortunately it 

	isn't always the case in California.</p>





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		<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/n/special/pages/2005/ucsalary/">

		<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">TOP UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 

			EMPLOYEE SALARIES</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><br>





		</span></b><i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">From the San 

			Francisco Chronicle</span></i></p>





		

      

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        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/13/UCPAY.TMP">

			UC piling extra cash on top of pay</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">8,500 top staffers pulling down at least 

			$20,000 each in bonuses, compensation<br>





			</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz and Todd Wallack, San Francisco 

			Chronicle<br>





			</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">When the University of California hired David Kessler as dean of 

			the UCSF School of Medicine the university announced he would 

			receive "total compensation" of $540,000 a year. Turns out he 

			actually got much more</span>. In addition to his salary, he received a 

			one-time relocation allowance of $125,000, plus $30,000 for six 

			months' rent and a low-interest home loan. There was more. He was 

			reimbursed for his actual moving costs from Connecticut, and his 

			family received round-trip airline tickets to go house-hunting in 

			the Bay Area. Kessler is hardly unique. Despite UC's complaints that 

			it has been squeezed by cuts in state funding and forced to raise 

			student fees, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">many university faculty members and administrators get 

			paid far more than is publicly reported</span>. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/13/FRINGE.TMP">

			Other perks include parties, gifts, travel</a><br>





			</b><i>By Tanya Schevitz and Todd Wallack, Chronicle<br>





			</i>In addition to their cash compensation, many senior UC employees 

			receive significant fringe benefits. A partial list includes: 

			Housing; a job for the person's spouse; entertainment; gifts; 

			travel; and parties. UC representatives insist the expenses are 

			legitimate and important, and many, such as travel, receptions and 

			entertaining, shouldn't be considered perks at all. But some 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">critics 

			wonder whether it makes sense to hand so many perks to senior 

			faculty and administrators who are already receiving six-figure 

			paychecks</span>. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/18/MNGN3K0VO21.DTL&amp;hw=chancellor&amp;sn=002&amp;sc=802">

			Tenure is prize perk for exiting executives</a><br>





			</b><i>By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>History instructor Lillian Taiz taught for 10 years in various 

			college classrooms before being awarded a coveted tenured 

			professorship at the California State University campus in Los 

			Angeles, then worked five more years as an associate professor 

			before securing the rank and salary of a full professor. Christine 

			Helwick, on the other hand, is the university system's top lawyer. 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">She has never taught a college course in her life, but when she 

			leaves her current job as general counsel, she has been promised a 

			full, tenured professorship</span>. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/17/MNGRBK0EK01.DTL&amp;hw=chancellor&amp;sn=003&amp;sc=746">

			Extra pay follows top CSU brass out the door</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Chancellor gives special perks to some 

			departing executives<br>





			</font></b><i>By Jim Doyle, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Millions of dollars worth of extra compensation has been handed 

			out to California State University campus presidents and other top 

			executives as they leave their posts -- without public disclosure</span> by 

			the chancellor and the university's Board of Trustees. </p>





			

        

        <p><b>

			<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/20/BAGNFK2AN21.DTL&amp;hw=chancellor&amp;sn=005&amp;sc=442">

			Regents committee OKs pay raises for top UC executives</a><br>





			<font color="#ff0000">Increases will bring salaries in line with 

			peers', officials say<br>





			</font></b><i>By Tanya Schevitz, San Francisco Chronicle<br>





			</i>Seventy-one University of California executives will share 

			$770,000 in raises, part of an effort that UC officials say is to 

			bring their pay up to that of their peers at other universities. 

			<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The</span> 

			i<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">ncreases were approved behind closed doors</span> by the Compensation 

			Committee of the UC Board of Regents. </p>





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