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Originally Posted by Noah930
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The argument will be that the UC system is fighting to retain the services of expert business leadership, and that it must pay rates competitive to the rest of the business world (such as the IBMs, GEs, and Apples) to retain those experts. Hence, that justifies the high compensation and benefits packages.
Funny how that logic only applies to the executives, and not the rest of the university staff (i.e. profs), who are expected to accept whatever wage they get because of an altruistic good for society.
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that puts it well - public service is not expected to be comparable to non-public service jobs, and usually is not
one thing tho - in the last 20 years, it has been very hard to recruit presidents for universities - seems no one wants the job