Tarnished Jewel
There’s blood in the water, and Vicki Ruiz knows everyone can smell it. "The privates have come calling," says Ruiz, dean of the University of California at Irvine’s School of Humanities. "I’ve lost very valued faculty members to Yale, to Northwestern, to Penn, to Pomona, to Scripps…" …Like many in the system, Nosek [vice chancellor for administration at California’s Davis campus] sees the university’s fiscal problems rooted in the state’s political problems. To appease lawmakers, Nosek says the university has cut deals that weren’t in its ultimate best interest. "I certainly believe we have been part of the problem as far as leadership in higher education at UC, because we have allowed the political process to have too much influence on what we do in operating the university," Nosek said.
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by Jack Stripling, Inside Higher Ed.