School Violated Limits on Leave Packages
At least three senior University of California officials were granted lengthy paid administrative leaves when they retired, violating university limits, a newspaper reported Friday.
The senior managers were awarded paid furloughs at their executive salaries, exceeding restrictions approved more than a decade ago by the university’s governing Board of Regents.
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Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl was awarded a 13 1/2-month leave at $315,600 a year; former Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Directory Charles Shank was granted a yearlong leave in which he earned $336,000; and former Provost M.R.C. Greenwood will be paid $301,840 a year over the course of her 15-month leave, the Chronicle reported.The revelations come as the university faces hearings in both the state Assembly and Senate about reports in the Chronicle that it quietly paid hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses and other compensation while raising student fees and freezing pay for lower-paid workers because of budget constraints.
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The M.R.C. Greenwood mentioned in the article is the same person who has been in the news lately for other shenanigans. The LA Times previously reported that:
“the University of California’s general counsel found that the system’s former second-in-command, M.R.C. Greenwood, had violated conflict of interest rules in a hiring decision involving an administrator with whom she owned real estate, according to a report released Wednesday.”
If this is how administrators who violate ethics rules get rewarded, I can’t imagine what the honest upstanding administrators are getting.
