“… UC needs to grasp once and for all that its independence isn’t a license to be hostile to basic expectations of financial transparency and accountability. "
When Napolitano was hired supporters touted her political stature and experience running another unwieldy bureaucracy. After an aggressive attempt to make inroads in Sacramento after losing $1 billion in state funding during the recession, a state audit has found her office accumulated tens of millions of dollars in secret reserves and inappropriately interfered with the audit. No doubt she can tackle the bureaucratic problems highlighted in the audit, she has the political skills to smooth things over with the legislature.
California used to have an education system, at all levels, from “junior colleges” to huge research institutions that was the wonder of the world.
Then came Proposition 13, and a generation of politicians (and their public facilitators) that saw the UC System as the key to all the state’s budget problems.
There are reasons for hiding liquid assets needed for present or potential costs, because the state has a bad habit of deciding that such things should go into the state treasury. It is reasonable for the UC administration to care more for the welfare of the education system than for say repainting the Golden Gate Bridge.
superposition about 6 years ago
“… UC needs to grasp once and for all that its independence isn’t a license to be hostile to basic expectations of financial transparency and accountability. "
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/sd-uc-oversight-napolitano-howle-audit-20180503-story.html
Teto85 Premium Member about 6 years ago
She’s running UC as if it were her own little fiefdom.
Mr. Blawt about 6 years ago
When Napolitano was hired supporters touted her political stature and experience running another unwieldy bureaucracy. After an aggressive attempt to make inroads in Sacramento after losing $1 billion in state funding during the recession, a state audit has found her office accumulated tens of millions of dollars in secret reserves and inappropriately interfered with the audit. No doubt she can tackle the bureaucratic problems highlighted in the audit, she has the political skills to smooth things over with the legislature.
AndrewSihler about 6 years ago
California used to have an education system, at all levels, from “junior colleges” to huge research institutions that was the wonder of the world.
Then came Proposition 13, and a generation of politicians (and their public facilitators) that saw the UC System as the key to all the state’s budget problems.
There are reasons for hiding liquid assets needed for present or potential costs, because the state has a bad habit of deciding that such things should go into the state treasury. It is reasonable for the UC administration to care more for the welfare of the education system than for say repainting the Golden Gate Bridge.