Janet Napolitano, formerly of the Homeland Security Department and now president of the University of California system, is insisting that the state give the system an additional $100 million—or she will retaliate by raising student tuition by five percent a year for five years.
In “Tuition Showdown,” published elsewhere on NRO, Kevin Williamson discusses this threat (her adversary is none other than Governor Moonbeam). He also analyzes what a college education ought to cost and refers to the extravagant spending of California universities these days (UCLA paid Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees totaling $550,000).
By the way, Napolitano is getting $570,000 per year plus $9,950 per month to rent a home, $8,916 a month for a car, and $142,000 to relocate from Washington, D.C. But according to the California Aggie (the student newspaper at UC- Davis), her salary still puts her “in the bottom 25th percentile of presidents of similar academic institutions.