Just a note of Richard Blum. Just google Apha Regent & you will see stories about his amazing self-dealing as a regent as well as his influence on the destruction of the Postal Service.
Also Brown wants the universities to heavily rely on on-line courses without any evidence that they are effective. You can only imagine what the online econ text books will be. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Governor Brown and Speaker of the Assembly John A. Perez are Ex Officio > members of the University of California Board of Regents. They both attended > a meeting of the Regents this week. There are 16 appointed regents plus 7 Ex > Officio members. > > Both Brown and Peres spoke of the high salaries being paid to numerous UC > administrators and suggested that there might be future opposition from the > Capital if the numbers of administrators and their salaries continued as they > have. > > There was aggressive and forceful denounciation of these views from the Chair > of the Regents, Sherry Lansing, formerly CEO of Paramount Pictures and > especially from Richard Blum reputed to be a millionaire or billionaire and > husband of a working wife, Senator Diane Feinstein. Lansing and Blum were > ready for Brown bringing up the issue. Both invoked the idea that you have > to pay for talented people. Blum said he didn't want to use the word > "socialism" to characterize the Governor's ideas. Of course he needed to use > the word socialism to point out that he didn't want to use the word socialism. > > In related news: The President of the University of California announced his > pending retirement, upon completion of five years employment in August, after > which he'll draw $230,0000/year. He'll get the bulk of his retirement pay > from previous employers, the U. of Texas and the U. of Minnesota. He has > done nice work, according to Blum and Lansing. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
