University of California Berkeley wasteful not transparent

Self | August 7 2011 | Milan Moravec

[Moravecglobal]

University of California (UC) picks the pockets of Californians, foreign, out-of-state students clean. UC shouldn’t come to the Governor or public for support. (The author has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at UC Berkeley (Cal) where he observed the culture & way senior management work)

University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) has forgotten that he is a public servant, steward of the public money, not overseer of his own fiefdom. These are not isolated examples: recruits (uses California tax $) out of state $50,600 tuition students that displace qualified Californians from Cal. public university education; spends $7,000,000 + for consultants to do his & many vice chancellors jobs (prominent East Coast university accomplishing same 0 cost); pays ex Michigan governor $300,000 for lectures; in procuring a $3,000,000 consulting firm he failed to receive proposals from other firms; Latino enrollment drops while out of state jumps 2010 (M Krupnick Contra Costa Times); ranked # 70 USA best universities Forbes; tuition to Return on Investment drops below top 10; QS academic ranking falls below top 10; only 50 attend Birgeneau all employees meeting; visits down 20%; absence Cal. senior management control NCAA places basketball program on probation. It’s all shameful. There is no justification for violations by a steward of the public trust. Absolutely none.

Birgeneau’s irregularities continue. Governor Brown, UC Board of Regents Chair Lansing must do a better job of vigorously enforcing stringent oversight over Chancellor Birgeneau who uses the campus as his fiefdom.

[wildwood]

This is disjointed. Do you have links to show what you’re saying?

[vette6387]

I graduated from UC Berkeley in 1965. Looks like nothing has changed. It was a crap hole when I went there and it still is. The “professors” don’t teach, they do their research and publish the crap with grant money while the Teaching Assistants ( mostly foreign students) teach the undergraduates. All the while dragging down mid to high six figure salaries plus gold-plated benefits.

[flying Elvis]

This person is a multi forum spammer with an agenda, posting their screed all over the net.

Apparently the mods do not care though.

[wildwood]

This seems to be the pattern in higher ed. Here in Ohio, they are going to be dealing with those high salaries and mini work weeks if we can keep SB5, which has made us fiscally solvent for the first time in a while. California is particularly egregious. I read of one person (an athletic director?) in California who was pulling down $2 million in salary.

[Moravecglobal]

Transparency to Californians will educate them about the inept leadership at University of California Berkeley.

Facts need to be spread out to Californians and others.

Shooting the messenger does not change the facts!

[Moravecglobal]

please read and pause at each ;

the facts are friendly

facts trump attacking the author: transparency to facts informs others

[Moravecglobal]

University of California Berkeley Chancellor Birgeneau ($500,000 salary) displaces qualified for public university education at Cal. Californians with $50,600 FOREIGN students

University of California Berkeley, ranked # 70 Forbes, is not increasing enrollment. $50,600 FOREIGN students are accepted into Cal. at the expense of qualified instate students.

Yours is the opinion that can make the difference: email UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu