With tuition heading up, state will audit UC president’s office
Spending at the University of California’s Oakland headquarters has nearly doubled in recent years, and official staff counts vary by nearly 500 people, depending on who’s doing the counting. So on Wednesday, state lawmakers authorized an audit of UC’s Office of the President to determine whether its $686 million annual budget — more than twice that of the Legislature — is money well spent… Slightly more than half the president’s budget, $372 million, pays for programs across UC campuses. It funds millions of digital books, thousands of students studying abroad, hundreds of agricultural advisers and specialists, HIV/AIDS and breast cancer research, and more, documents show. The remaining $314 million of the president’s budget pays for UC headquarters and administrative services. This includes running the pension plan and investments, employee benefits, insurance and legal services, among other items.
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by Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle.