Chancellor laughing all the way to bank

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During a question-and-answer period after his approximately
40-minute address, Chancellor Albert Carnesale, a former Harvard
provost, was asked to point out the major differences between a
public and private university. He jokingly said a private school
would offer him a higher salary ““ this coming from the
highest-paid UCLA administrator, grossing an annual salary of
$310,900.

Despite generating polite laughs from the small crowd,
Carnesale’s comment was insensitive to the audience.
Davis’ preliminary 2002-2003 state budget does not allow for
a cost of living increase proportional to inflation for faculty and
staff. Instead, staff workers will be given a minimal 1.5-percent
increase in salary based on their quality of work.

This is nowhere near the 15-percent increase the Coalition of
University Employees has been demanding from the university. CUE,
which represents 18,000 UC staff workers, has pointed out the UC
system has an unrestricted funds surplus totaling over $3 billion.
A 15-percent increase to UC staff workers would cost the UC less
than 3 percent of this surplus.

Carnesale, however, is quick to point out the decision to
increase salaries falls on the UC Regents. But as the highest
ranking official at UCLA, Carnesale could have used his pull and
fought harder for university staff employees. After all, he gets
paid more than the president.