Comments on: UC President: ‘Long past day where we can just cut the fat’ http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/01/19/uc-president-long-past-day-where-we-can-just-cut-the-fat/ Enlightening La Jolla since 1913 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:54:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Milan Moravec http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/01/19/uc-president-long-past-day-where-we-can-just-cut-the-fat/#comment-53119 Milan Moravec Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:53:13 +0000 http://lajollalight.mscsddev.com/?p=33432#comment-53119 UC Berkeley "fat cats" include Chancellor Birgeneau $500,000 salary followed by Provost Breslauer and a 'bloat load" of vice-chancellors. Amid cuts Chancellor Birgeneau continues spending spree. University of California Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau’s eight-year fiscal track record is dismal indeed. He would like to blame the politicians, since they stopped giving him every dollar he has asked for, and the state legislators do share some responsibility for the financial crisis. But not in the sense he means. A competent chancellor would have been on top of identifying inefficiencies in the system and then crafting a plan to fix them. Competent oversight by the Board of Regents and the legislature would have required him to provide data on problems and on what steps he was taking to solve them. Instead, every year Birgeneau would request a budget increase, the regents would agree to it, and the legislature would provide. The hard questions were avoided by all concerned, and the problems just piled up to $150 million of inefficiencies….until there was no money left. UC Berkeley "fat cats" include Chancellor Birgeneau $500,000 salary followed by Provost Breslauer and a 'bloat load" of vice-chancellors.
Amid cuts Chancellor Birgeneau continues spending spree. University of California Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau’s eight-year fiscal track record is dismal indeed. He would like to blame the politicians, since they stopped giving him every dollar he has asked for, and the state legislators do share some responsibility for the financial crisis. But not in the sense he means.

A competent chancellor would have been on top of identifying inefficiencies in the system and then crafting a plan to fix them. Competent oversight by the Board of Regents and the legislature would have required him to provide data on problems and on what steps he was taking to solve them. Instead, every year Birgeneau would request a budget increase, the regents would agree to it, and the legislature would provide. The hard questions were avoided by all concerned, and the problems just piled up to $150 million of inefficiencies….until there was no money left.

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