family guy?

No, it’s Futurama. Professor Hubert Farnsworth = Professor Hubert Dreyfus.

One of the guys behind Futurama was a philosophy GSI at Berkeley. Professor Dreyfus is a philosophy professor.

Also I think he’s retired but teaches without a salary. That’s why it’s $44k.

Obummer made over $7,000,000 last year — see his public tax – forms. Obummer is a bourgeois. He doesn’t like the proletariats, like the grandmas in wheelchairs who raise their hands at townhall meetings who ask questions about rationing her health care so Obummer can save money.

and tedford makes more than god. just kidding, but he did make 2.3 million. so if you’re going to talk about a skewed system, address that as well. Birgeneau and Yudof don’t actually make insane salaries if you consider cal/UC system as a business, CEO’s make that much because they do a lot of work and get all the blame if something goes wrong…like you’re doing now.

I’m glad that more people are talking about the issue of executive compensation.

@Someone, the problem is that we shouldn’t consider UC Execs CEOs. I think that’s the root of our problem. Execs and their lobbyists recently killed a bill in the CA state legislature that would put a freeze on executive pay raises in years that student fees go up. They sure as hell were able to kill that bill yet when it comes to securing money for the UC system from the legislature, they fail year after year. On top of that a recent report from the body that accredits the UC (ie makes your diploma worth something) found that UC admins are mediocre and need to change the way they work. So, no I don’t think we should pay them 500,000+ a year plus benefits.

We shouldn’t consider UC Execs CEOs because they’d be getting chump change in comparison.

Average CEO salary was $10.4 million in 2008 with an increase of $336k from the year before. (Info came from the AFL-CIO) Now does the Chancellor’s salary really seem like that much now?

It’s all relative…

University of California President Yudof Approves $3,000,000 to Outsource UCB Chancellor’s Job
The UC President has a UCB Chancellor that should do the high paid job he is paid for instead of hiring an East Coast consulting firm to fulfill his responsibilities. ‘World class’ smart executives like Chancellor Birgeneau need to do the analysis, hard work and make the difficult decisions of their executive job!
Where do consulting firms like Bain ($3,000,000 consultants) get their recommendations?
From interviewing the senior management that hired them and will be approving their monthly consultant fees and expense reports. Remember the nationally known auditing firm who said the right things and submitted recommendations that senior management wanted to hear and fooled government oversight agencies and the public?
Mr. Birgeneau’s executive officer performance management responsibilities include “inspiring innovation and leading change.” This involves “defining outcomes, energizing others at all levels and ensuring continuing commitment.” Instead of demonstrating his capacity to fulfill his executive accountabilities, Mr. Birgeneau outsourced them. Doesn’t he engage University of California and University of California Berkeley (UCB) people at all levels to help examine the budget and recommend the necessary trims? Hasn’t he talked to Cornell and the University of North Carolina – which also hired Bain — about best practices and recommendations that might apply to UCB cuts?
No wonder the faculty and staff are angry and suspicious. Three million dollars is a high price for Californians to pay when a knowledgeable ‘world-class’ Chancellor is not doing his job.
Please help save $3,000,000 for teaching our students and request that the UC President require the UCB Chancellor to fulfill his executive job accountabilities!