Threats to UC UCB budgets are not from outside. University of California President Yudof Approves $3,000,000 for UCB Chancellor Birgeneau to hire consultants to do the WORK of the Chancellor when the work can be done internally and impartially by the world class professional staff and facculty.
Wasting $3,000,000 for consultants that could be used for students during the Great Recession is an arrogant crime by the senior management of UC and UCB against the students and people of California.
As representatives of the people of California in the California Assembly and Senate please let me know, by post or email, what steps you are taking to stop the spending of $ 3 million on consultants by UCB Chancellor Birgeneau and approved by UC
ReplyDeleteWhy does one of the top universities in the world have to spend $3 million of taxpayer money for consultants to do what should be done internally by UCB Chancellor Birgeneau?
Who teaches auditors how to audit? Do UC professors not have the knowledge to perform what they teach?
Having firsthand knowledge of consulting, I know one cardinal rule, "Don't bite the hand that pays you."
In a nutshell, we have a high-paid, skilled UCB Chancellor who is unable or unwilling to do the job he is paid to do. Why do we wonder that UC and California are in a financial crisis!
I'm sure taxpayers would not object to the $3 million payout if the money is reimbursed by taking money from the UCB Chancellor's salary over the next 10 years.
Stop the spending of $3,000,000 on consultants by President Yudof and the UCB Chancellor and do the job impartially and internally.
In these days of the Great Recession ever dollar in California higher education counts
Doye O Sivils San Ramon Calif