UCSF says pay cuts would harm medical school
The UCSF Academic Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve a resolution denouncing salary cuts for faculty and staff at UC’s 10 campuses. Faculty members at UCSF want each campus to have the authority to deal with the budget crisis in its own manner. They said that such salary cuts at UCSF’s medical center, which includes its graduate school, teaching hospital, and research laboratories, could trigger a significant exodus of talented faculty members, the loss of lucrative federal research grants, and a reduction of staff hours that could adversely affect patient care. The Academic Senate at UC San Diego sent a similar letter to Yudof, requesting "local budgetary autonomy" to decide how to make its own budget cuts. UC San Diego, the letter said, "will be irreparably harmed" by cutting salaries across the board or implementing other options proposed by the UC president.
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by Jim Doyle, The San Francisco Chronicle.