Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Dirks has to go!
Via The College Fix:
Nicholas Dirks had a rough chancellorship at the University of California-Berkeley.
For the next year, he’ll have an easy ride and a fat golden parachute.
The former chancellor is getting paid $434,000 to do nothing for an entire year, and will return to teaching on campus in the 2018-2019 academic year, when he’ll earn nearly $200,000 less to be a full-time professor, The Daily Californian reports.
The do-nothing payment is 80 percent of his salary as an administrator, and a university spokesperson said Dirks was actually underpaid relative to his peers at Association of American Universities members.
The money will incentivize him to “retool and do research in preparation for a return to the faculty as a professor,” the spokesperson said, but faculty aren’t buying it.