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During a question-and-answer period after his approximately 40-minute address, Chancellor Albert Carnesale, a former Harvard provost, was asked to point out the major differences between a public and private university. He jokingly said a private school would offer him a higher salary – this coming from the highest-paid UCLA administrator, grossing an annual salary of $310,900.
Despite generating polite laughs from the small crowd, Carnesale’s comment was insensitive to the audience. Davis’ preliminary 2002-2003 state budget does not allow for a cost of living increase proportional to inflation for faculty and staff. Instead, staff workers will be given a minimal 1.5-percent increase in salary based on their quality of work.
This is nowhere near the 15-percent increase the Coalition of University Employees has been demanding from the university. CUE, which represents 18,000 UC staff workers, has pointed out the UC system has an unrestricted funds surplus totaling over $3 billion. A 15-percent increase to UC staff workers would cost the UC less than 3 percent of this surplus.
Carnesale, however, is quick to point out the decision to increase salaries falls on the UC Regents. But as the highest ranking official at UCLA, Carnesale could have used his pull and fought harder for university staff employees. After all, he gets paid more than the president.