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Looking to go deeper in debt while you work toward an increasingly useless degree? Well, look no further than the UC system. Making this the sixth tuition hike in seven years, the UC Regents voted to increase student tuition by 9.3 percent yesterday. (An aside: They also agreed to hire several "new top administrators at eye-popping wages -- UC San Francisco and UC Davis landed new chancellors at annual booties of $450,000 and $400,000, respectively. Wee.) Will this most recent increase help the ailing UC system? No. No, it won't. As Regent Eddie Island of Oakland told the Chron, "I feel like I'm witnessing the death of a great institution ... We ought to pause and say, Where are we going with this? We know this isn't the last student fee increase. Are we giving up on affordability? Are we giving up on access? And what's the effect on diversity?" Let us help: yes, yes, and it's not good. Champagne wishes and hummus dreams, Regents. You bastards. In related news, overseas hackers swiped confidential information belonging to "tens of thousands of students and alumni at UC Berkeley and Mills College" after gaining access to systems at the Cal campus' health services center. Luckily, your tuition is going to pay for the organic wine collection of a transgressive comparative literature professor, not a decent IT team.
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$400K salaries on the backs of students. Disgusting.
sometimes literally.
So long as there are children of rich parents in California, the UCs will find enough people willing to pony up those fees. Their students will be morons, but from the revenue side of it, they'll be fine.
Actually, is $400-$450K really that extraordinate a salary for a university chancellor, especially for universities of the size and intellectual heft of UCSF and UCD? The Googles aren't especially helpful, but it doesn't seem like those salaries are way out of line compared to the rest of the nation.
Plus, you'd pretty much need to pay someone $400,000 if they had to suffer through living in Davis.
"Luckily, your tuition is going to pay for the organic wine collection of a transgressive comparative literature professor"
The gall of these people! I mean I know that everywhere I go all the humanities depts are just hemorrhaging money out their asses. Poor (comp)science majors, they'll never get a fair shake!
when my uc tuition went up 40%, i decided to work my ass off and get out of there in 3 years. i suggest the current students try the same tactic.
that said, in-state UC tuition is still more affordable than the private liberal arts bullshit that my East Coasts friends (or rather, their parents) coughed up 150k for. and california is the only state that did not fail the college affordability test... but only because the CCs saved our asses.
so true.
Here's the thing, folks, cause I hear people griping about university salaries all the time: regular humble teaching professors do not make these crazy figures. The amount a university employee makes is in direct relationship to how much money she brings in to the institution. Chancellors, deans, and presidents tend to be leaders in their field with connections that cash out in the form of grants and donations to the school. These people could be making twice that amount in the private sector, but instead they bust their balls trying to fundraise and bend over backwards for rich assholes. Also, big names bring other big names, and the money coming into the school continues.
Running a university is like anything else- you weigh the pros and cons. It would be lovely if you could get a halfway decent UC chancellor for 120K, but you can't. You wouldn't do that gig for that amount, trust me.
We've been getting a lot of corrupt chancellors for years at high prices, so I don't buy the line that someone in public service needs to make 500,000 a year on the backs of the students.