I keep hearing lame charges of cronyism against the Bush Administration from the left. Maybe they should look into past administrations and compare?
But they won�t.
They also have been strangely silent about this….
Creating $192,000 job for UC chancellor’s partner stirs critics
The University of California created a $192,000-a-year job for the partner of the new UC Santa Cruz chancellor, a move that is being criticized by an employee union. Union officials representing staff at the 10-campus system say the move is a mistake at a time when the university is cutting budgets and raising fees.
UC officials defended the hiring of Gretchen Kalonji, the longtime partner of incoming Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Dee Denton. They described Kalonji as a highly qualified professor who will be an asset in her new job as director of international strategy development.
Kalonji, a professor of materials science at the University of Washington in Seattle and an expert in international education, also is getting a tenured professorship.
What is that? Almost $200,00 a year and a job that she can never be fored from just for sleeping with the UC Chancellor?
Hell, I might even be up for that deal!