University of California regents drew criticism from Gov. Jerry Brown today as they hired Nicholas Dirks to be the next chancellor of UC Berkeley and agreed to pay him a salary $50,000 higher than outgoing chancellor Robert Birgeneau. “The $50,000 increase above the incumbent, even though that incumbent has not received a pay raise, does not fit within the spirit of servant leadership that I think will be required over the next several years… We are going to have to restrain this system in many, many of its elements and this will come with great resistance,” Brown said. Regent George Kieffer said the salary was appropriate for the leader of the “number one public university in the world” and that UC has demonstrated a commitment to keeping salaries down. UC officials provided a salary survey of the nation’s top universities showing that its chancellors are paid in the bottom third of the group. “We’ve already begun to attempt to draw down this disparity in incomes and this growth of compensation at the executive level,” Kieffer said.

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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.

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