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Greenwood guilty
The University of California has determined that recently-resigned provost M.R.C. Greenwood did indeed violate university policy when she hired a friend and business contact. Though accused of also abusing her position to help her son secure a paid internship at the Merced campus, Greenwood was found innocent of that particular charge.
Greenwood resigned last fall as the San Francisco Chronicle broke the scandalous news of her questionable hiring practices and her acceptance of an illegitimate hiring bonus / housing allowance. Her punishment now seems to be, as far as the University of California is concerned, complete: She is on a highly paid sabbatical for the rest of the fiscal year, and will return to her professorial position at UC Davis in the fall with $100,000 in seed money to help her launch a new course of research. In other words, Greenwood's punishment for being guilty of misconduct is that she was found to be guilty of misconduct. The University will not be pursuing any formal sanctions against her, and when she retires will confer on her the title of "chancellor emerita."
With disincentives like this, the UC system isn't likely to clean up its troubled fiduciary act anytime soon.
Posted by acta online at January 3, 2006 01:22 PM
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I confess! I confess! I am also guilty of corruption! (Where can I pick up my check, please?) (And by the way, I'd like to be known as "Princess Emerita" from now on.)
Posted by: Jaded at January 3, 2006 05:36 PM