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UC faculty calls for investigation
A petition circulating among University of California faculty members calls for an independent investigation into the question of whether UC administrators are receiving exhorbitant compensation packages and extravagant perks. The petition is a response to the scandal surrounding former UC provost M.R.C. Greenwood's resignation, which was spurred by revelations that she had accepted inappropriate incentive payments and had used her influence to secure jobs for a business partner and for her son. Though UC president Robert Dynes has indicated his intention to create a task force charged with examining the question of how the University of California compensates its employees, critics argue that his plan to form that task force from within the UC Board of Regents creates a conflict of interest. Berkeley professor Bruce Fuller launched the petition, which asks a crucial question: "If such perks have been effective in attracting such wise managers, why have these same individuals made such reckless decisions which now place the university's record of integrity and moral leadership in jeopardy?"
Meanwhile, the UC Regents are set to begin a national search for UCLA's new chancellor. This will be a search to watch--it is an opportunity for for the University of California to begin to repair its tarnished reputation, but it is also an opportunity for the University to sink itself even deeper into disrepute.
Posted by acta online on November 29, 2005 at November 29, 2005 08:33 AM
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