Uh huh.
Posted on 11/27/2008 7:43:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The University of California's governing Board of Regents, struggling last week to avert drastic state budget cuts and forestall tuition increases, approved a $100,202 severance package for Linda Williams, a close aide to former UC President Robert Dynes and a figure in the university's 2005 salary scandal.
The severance is being paid to Williams several months after she left her job in the UC Office of the President in Oakland and took a higher-paying position on May 1 a few miles away at the UC Berkeley campus.
Her payout was granted last Thursday - one day after the regents spent hours discussing and decrying Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal for $65.5 million in midyear UC budget cuts.
Linda Morris Williams - no relation to UC Berkeley film Professor Linda Williams - is one of 155 former employees of the UC president's office to receive severance payments under a voluntary termination program designed to shrink the office's payroll this year.
Williams and 15 others who took the buyout were re-employed at new jobs within UC's 10-campus system.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Williams, who has worked for the UC system for about 20 years, became a member of Dynes’ inner circle when he served as chancellor of UC San Diego. She moved to Oakland as a senior adviser once Dynes assumed the UC presidency in 2003.
A scandal erupted in 2005 when The Chronicle reported that millions of dollars in bonuses and extra compensation had been paid to UC executives without public disclosure or approval from the Board of Regents and appeared to violate standing policies. Williams was among those for whom Dynes made exceptions in granting perks they were not normally entitled to.
For instance, Williams received a $44,467 relocation allowance, apparently in violation of university policy. This was in addition to reimbursing her up to $12,000 of actual costs for the move from San Diego to Oakland.
It has been my experience that most “regents” are little better than functional idiots.
One of the finest public university systems in the world, and yet it is run by idiots.
One of the finest public university systems in the world, and yet it is run by idiots.
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Liberal academia. Nothing but incompetence and malfeasance can be expected...and that is what we get.
Uh huh.
She kinda looks like she hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in a month... maybe she should cash in the vacation time.
Exception was when Ward Connerly was a board member.
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