Posted on 05/07/2006 11:23:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Some people want Bob Dynes' head, but the University of California president isn't about to give it to them.
"Do I look like I'm crumbling?" Dynes shot back when asked during an hourlong interview Thursday whether he were more the type to harden under pressure or crumble.
Dynes' comments came the day after three state senators called for him to be replaced over revelations of hidden executive compensation, and two days after the Bureau of State Audits blistered UC officials for, among other things, circumventing compensation policies set by the governing Board of Regents.
Dynes answered those blasts indirectly at the time, firing bullet points of changes he's making to fix what has gone wrong over the last decade at the institution he's led since 2003.
In the interview, too, he didn't respond directly to urging that he leave. But his position is clear: "I'm not ashamed of anything I did."
And if his political capital were a tank of gas, where would the needle point?
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Dynes faces a daunting task. Over the last six months, the university has been hit by revelations involving millions of dollars in hidden perks and benefits flowing to some of the university's highest paid employees. Compensation policies were waived, ignored or circumvented.
The public, and sometimes even the governing Board of Regents, was kept in the dark. At the same time, the state's budget woes were forcing sharp increases in student fees and steep declines in student services.
Still, at least some of the failings predated Dynes' appointment as president in 2003. In fact, UC was accused of hiding executive pay packages from the public during another compensation scandal in the early 1990s, when the university supposedly fixed the problem.
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In his mind, as in many elected and appointed officials in California, the ends does justify the means.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/president/desk.html
He was born in Ontario, canada. another "immigrant" tho I think he still is a Canadian. no matter , he fits in perfectly with the socialist agenda the the dems and CA GOPers are pushing of late.
I sometime mistake "CA" for Canada rather than California, but then what's the difference?
Welcome to Tammany Hall, with an academic wrapper on it ---
Doesn't the UC system have its own budget and books, off the state balance sheet? I believe they receive a mandatory amount every year from the state, but also have their own endowments and for-profit properties. If so, we can see where/how to make some economic reforms in this state. The state shouldn't run a multi-billion dollar deficit while the UC system is sitting on billions in surplus.
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