Posted on 11/07/2005 9:12:51 AM PST by EggsAckley
SANTA CRUZ Former UC Santa Cruz chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood, who held the No. 2 position in the University of California system, has resigned her $380,000-a-year post in the wake of an investigation into the hirings of a colleague and her son.
UC President Robert Dynes made no mention of the resignation during his visit to Santa Cruz on Thursday and Friday for events celebrating UCSC's new chancellor, Denice Denton. The press statement from his office came via e-mail after the ceremonies.
The statement said the investigation into possible improper hiring practices and concerns about conflict of interest centers on two hiring decisions, that of biology researcher Lynda Goff and that of Greenwood's son for UC positions.
Both remain on the job.
"This in no way reflects on their credentials or their performance," said UC spokesman Michael Reese, emphasizing the university has not determined whether any wrongdoing occurred.
Goff, who had been UCSC's dean of undergraduate education, followed Greenwood to the UC President's Office, taking a job that paid $192,100. In August, she was hired for the same salary to oversee a UC project to produce 1,000 math and science teachers.
Following inquiries by the San Francisco Chronicle, Greenwood and Goff disclosed that they had, until recently, owned rental property together, according to the UC statement. Information on the location of the property was not available.
"It appears that Provost Greenwood may have been involved in Dr. Goff's hiring to a greater extent than was appropriate, given that her business investment with Dr. Goff had not been properly and fully resolved in accordance with conflict of interest requirements," the UC statement explained.
The other issue involves the process to select Greenwood's son, James Greenwood, as a paid intern at UC Merced last August.
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Oh my God....$380,000!
These elites sure get paid well
$380,000 salary ? Jeez, I knew California living was expensive. If a public employee can knock down this kind of bread, what does someone who actually produces something get ?
I think she also had a mansion with paid servants.
Is this the set of lesbian partners or was there another pair in the UC system, raking in big money?
Geez, that's only $32,500 a month. It's not even $10,000 a week! Why, it's less than $183 an hour. A girl's got to live afterall.
Even he was shocked and amazed at the opulence of the place. It's a latter day Versailles Palace for our humble public servants of higher education.
As the holder of three degrees from the University of California system, and a former graduate student representative to the academic senate, I can only say: y'a mean it hasn't changed (except the size of the numbers) in the past 35 years?
UC's faculty has been cut and does not have anything like the pay or perks they did 30 years ago, as budgets were cut and the like. But, our administrators continue to multiply and they continue to do less and get paid more. My father (who was class of 1929 at Berkeley) said it was even a problem THEN!
The salary is only the tip of the iceberg.
Consider benefits, perks, discounts, bonuses AND retirement.
Meanwhile, UC employees across the system have not received merit or cost of living raises in years...
$182 an hour? You're making the (unlikely) assumption that she actually worked a 40 hour work week. Somehow I doubt it.
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