The University of California regents dodged a controversy Thursday by ignoring a proposal from UC President Mark Yudof that would have mandated annual tuition increases of 8 to 16 percent for the next four years. Instead, the regents turned their meeting at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus into a therapy session of sorts, gnashing their teeth about the steep drop in state funding – nearly $1 billion in the last two years – and debating whether they could get California corporations to kick in millions of dollars to UC. The regents also approved raises and incentive plans for 18 executives… Senior Vice President John Stobo, in charge of UC’s health system, received a $130,500 award for, among other things, reducing blood infections. When Stobo’s raise was announced and he was praised for his achievements, a health care worker – a member of a union that has been without a contract for months – jumped up from the audience and yelled, “It’s sad that you give yourself all these raises. The decrease in infections is because of our work, but you guys get credit for it. Shame on you!” Guards led her away.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chonicle.

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