Sacramento Bee Chastises UC for Lavish Spending. The Sacramento Bee, in a strongly worded editorial on May 13, rebuked the University of California for lavish spending on administrative salaries.
According to The Bee:
"The current chancellor at UC Davis, Larry Vanderhoef, earns a base salary of $315,000 a year. The just-named new chancellor, Linda Katehi, will earn a great deal more, $400,000. She also will get a $100,000 relocation allowance, moving costs, a car allowance of almost $9,000 a year and free housing.
"On top of Katehi's pay is a generous package for Vanderhoef, who is returning to the faculty. He will take a one-year sabbatical to develop a biology course and write a book about UC Davis.
"Administrative salaries have become so much higher than faculty salaries that administrators find it difficult to return to teaching after an administrative stint. So instead of giving Vanderhoef a faculty sabbatical salary in his year off, UC will give him his executive salary of $315,000 (plus an office and travel budget of $39,000 and an assistant)."
The editorial concluded: "The Board of Regents needs to step up and establish a pay structure that serves the state's interest in strong academic institutions, not the personal financial interests of administrators. UC executive pay is the next bubble that needs to burst in California." (Source: The Sacramento Bee, May 13.)
Cal-Taxletter, May 15, 2009
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