Will the Governor Begin Asking for a Limit on UC Administrative Pay? (He Just Did - Unsuccessfully - at CSU)

Governor Brown, an ex officio UC Regent, recently complained about a $400,000 salary slated for an incoming president of San Diego State.

Inside Higher Ed today provided a link to the governor’s letter to the Trustees:

You can read his letter to the CSU Board of Trustees at http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SKMBT_C45011071120240.pdf

However, the Board approved the salary, nonetheless.

We actually have some video of what the CSU Board said on the subject and it did not seem to be receptive to the governor’s complaint:


Update: No one loves administrators. See http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/07/14/new_book_argues_bloated_administration_is_what_ails_higher_education in which you can read the opinion that "a million-dollar president could be kidnapped by space aliens and it would be weeks or even months before his or her absence from campus was noticed.”