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The chancellor and her husband, Dr. Nicholas Hellmann, had recently given $1 million to [San Francisco State] university.
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<p>I guess there won't be too much kvetching about this administrator's salary.</p>
<p>how about if you get your fact straight first. She is a Dr, a brilliant researcher, and was THE chief medical officer at Genentech for many years , and is now the chancellor at one of the THE premier medical universities and research institutions in the whole country-the University of California San Francisco, NOT San Francisco State, which is a mediocre state college. </p>
<p>sheesh…</p>
<p>"Dr. Desmond-Hellmann’s years in pharmaceuticals left her, by her own account, “very, very wealthy,” with a fortune that she and her husband expect to give away. She could easily have retired. Instead, as the economy crumbled and public universities nationwide struggled with shrinking funds, she took on the daunting job of running a medical center and research university with 23,000 employees, two hospital complexes, dozens of clinics, 5,590 students, residents and postdoctoral fellows and a $3 billion budget.</p>
<p>She studied medicine at U.C.S.F. (she is a cancer specialist), met her husband there and took the job, she said, because she loves the place: “With the potential impact you have as an educator and as somebody who could lead an institution like this, maybe I could help make a difference.”</p>
<p>I just read that story! What an amazing person!</p>
<p>For all those CC’ers out there worried about prestige, let us also note that she and her husband did their first degrees at ordinary state schools to save for grad school- she went to Reno, and her husband is from Kentucky.</p>
<p>Gee, menloparkmom, so an outlander gets two similarly named California universities mixed up and you need to get nasty about it? My most sincere and abject apologies, if that makes you feel any better.</p>