Brown slams regents over Cal head's pay

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Brown, a regent himself, joined the panel in unanimously approving Nicholas Dirks, a scholar and executive vice president at Columbia University, as chancellor of UC Berkeley beginning in June.</p>

<p>But the governor balked at approving Dirks’ $486,800 annual salary, which is $50,000 more than what current Chancellor Robert Birgeneau earns. The increase “does not fit within the spirit of servant leadership that I think will be required over the next several years,” Brown told the regents before their vote.</p>

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<p>Earlier this month, UC leaders demanded that the state add $126.5 million to their annual funding of more than $2 billion and threatened to raise tuition if the governor and Legislature do not comply.</p>

<p>Brown said UC leaders are assuming a future level of state funding and tuition increases “that I think are not acceptable. We are a public university.”</p>

<p>Dirks’ benefits include an extra $30,425 a year for four years as a “relocation allowance,” a yearly car allowance of $8,916, a house, and eligibility for retiree health care in five years instead of the usual 10. </p>

<p>Dirks’ wife, Janaki Bakhle, an associate professor of history at Columbia, will also be considered for a faculty job at Cal.

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