Professor Elam

We reported on the student sit in at Berkeley, now read more about why. Yes California hired $600,000 per year UT Chancellor Mark Yudof who says when you have no choice, you have no choice, a $600K set of words if I ever heard any indeed!  Mark got my attention when he was at the helm of UT by remarking

The future of the UT system is nanotechnology, 

really he said that…..but I digress

The students are upset in CA that tuition alone will soon reach $10K for two semesters. Mark you will recall was instrumental in having UT Austin  set its own tuition so it would not ask the State of Texas for more money, tuition promptly increased from $2500 a semester to $4000, only a $600K per year administrator could think of an idea like that!  Lt Gov Dewhurst was reportedly shocked, well…

Just to be clear, CEOs are usually paid superior salaries for superior results. Yudof has a track record of commanding the highest salary of any higher ed official in the state. Yet he solution seems to be the same every time, raise tuition. Does that universal solution merit such a salary?

But these are mere details, read the real story about California in general and San Francisco in particular.

Bottom line, a museum in San Antonio, the NE School District in SA, San Francisco, you name it, municipalities are in trouble.