Free Republic

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The University of California paid 2,275 employees more than $200,000 last fiscal year, up 30 percent over two years, even as the system continued to cut student services and increase fees, a newspaper reported Monday. The salary hikes, revealed during a review of payroll records by the San Francisco Chronicle, occurred as the school raised student service fees 79 percent. UC has recently frozen pay hikes for lower-paid workers, such as custodians. "This is a huge inequity," said Norah Foster, a library assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, and executive board member of the Coalition...