A week after imploring California’s universities to resist another round of tuition hikes, Gov. Jerry Brown focused his plea for frugality on another target Tuesday: a $50,000 pay hike for UC Berkeley’s incoming chancellor. Brown’s objection to the salary for Berkeley’s new chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, failed to sway UC regents who approved the Columbia University dean’s appointment with a $486,800 base salary and a nearly $9,000 annual car allowance… UC Regent George Kieffer said that while he disagreed with Brown that Dirks’ pay package was too high, he felt it was appropriate for the governor to dig into the issues and ask tough questions. “I think he is as much focused, if not more focused, on other issues in the university: Where is higher education going, and can higher education sustain itself on the kinds of revenues we’ve had before?” Kieffer said. “I think he’s trying to lead carefully in that area, recognizing that he doesn’t want to do damage to what’s perceived to be the greatest public higher education system in the world.” Dirks was making about $500,000 at Columbia, Yudof said.

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by Katy Murphy, The Oakland Tribune.

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