http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/01/19/uc-regents-to-tackle-browns-budget-proposal-at-ucsd-meeting/ Enlightening La Jolla since 1913 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:21:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/01/19/uc-regents-to-tackle-browns-budget-proposal-at-ucsd-meeting/#comment-54642 Milan Moravec Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:33:08 +0000 http://lajollalight.mscsddev.com/?p=33367#comment-54642 UC Chancellor Birgeneau spending is out-running the increases in student tuition. UC Berkeley--one of the top universities in the nation, home to some of the finest professors, graduating some of the brightest students--can’t figure out how to save money. No joke. UC Berkeley spent $3 million plus expenses to hire an out-of-state auditing firm to help them find ways to reduce spending. According to the Contra Costa Times, October 10, 2009, “When UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was confronted with the $150 million challenge, he gave the matter deep thought, turned his focus eastward to the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co. and agreed to pay $3 million over the next two years for someone else to solve the problem. “We [the Times] never attended business school, but we’re pretty sure that one of the definitions of financial crisis is spending $3 million on consultants to tell you how to get by with $150 million less than you thought you had.” UC Chancellor Birgeneau spending is out-running the increases in student tuition. UC Berkeley–one of the top universities in the nation, home to some of the finest professors, graduating some of the brightest students–can’t figure out how to save money. No joke. UC Berkeley spent $3 million plus expenses to hire an out-of-state auditing firm to help them find ways to reduce spending.
According to the Contra Costa Times, October 10, 2009, “When UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was confronted with the $150 million challenge, he gave the matter deep thought, turned his focus eastward to the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co. and agreed to pay $3 million over the next two years for someone else to solve the problem.
“We [the Times] never attended business school, but we’re pretty sure that one of the definitions of financial crisis is spending $3 million on consultants to tell you how to get by with $150 million less than you thought you had.”

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