Regents Wrap Up

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What’s in store for the UC thanks to the $813 million budget gap?

• 11-26 furlough days for employees and faculty
• $300 million in cuts spread across the 10 campuses
• Deferring 50 percent of planned faculty hires
• Debt refinancing
• Previously approved student fee increase

Chancellor Henry T. Yang told the Nexus that “with the magnitude and suddenness of this painful cut, our ability to fulfill our mission in teaching, research and public service, and to contribute as an innovator and economic engine for California, will no longer be the same as before.”

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One Response to “Regents Wrap Up”

1. Milan Moravec says:

   November 19, 2009 at 7:45 pm

   University of California President Yudof Approves $3,000,000 to Outsource UCB Chancellor’s Job
   The UC President has a UCB Chancellor that should do the high paid job he is paid for instead of hiring an East Coast consulting firm to fulfill his responsibilities. ‘World class’ smart executives like Chancellor Birgeneau need to do the analysis, hard work and make the difficult decisions of their executive job!

   Where do consulting firms like Bain ($3,000,000 consultants) get their recommendations?
   From interviewing the senior management that hired them and will be approving their monthly consultant fees and expense reports. Remember the nationally known auditing firm who said the right things and submitted recommendations that senior management wanted to hear and fooled government oversight agencies and the public? Consultants never bite the hand that feeds them

   Mr. Birgeneau’s executive officer performance management responsibilities include “inspiring innovation and leading change.” This involves “defining outcomes, energizing others at all levels and ensuring continuing commitment.” Instead of demonstrating his capacity to fulfill his executive accountabilities, Mr. Birgeneau outsourced them. Doesn’t he engage University of California and University of California Berkeley (UCB) people at all levels to help examine the budget and recommend the necessary trims? Hasn’t he talked to Cornell and the University of North Carolina – which also hired Bain — about best practices and recommendations that might apply to UCB cuts?

   No wonder the faculty and staff are angry and suspicious. Three million dollars is a high price for Californians to pay when a knowledgeable ‘world-class’ Chancellor is not doing his job.
   Please help save $3,000,000 for teaching our students and request that the UC President require the UCB Chancellor to fulfill his executive job accountabilities!