Timothy White, now head of UC Riverside, will take over as chancellor of the California State University system in late December with an annual salary of $421,500, with a CSU standard benefits package and a $30,000 supplement from CSU Foundation sources.
CSU officials named White to the post Thursday to succeed current CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed, who announced in late May that he planned to retire after a 14-year tenure.
White, 63, has spent the past four years as the chancellor at Riverside.
Born in Argentina, White and his family moved to Calgary before settling in the Bay Area when he was 9 years old, he said in a teleconference Thursday.
He attended elementary, intermediate and high schools in Pleasant Hill,then went to Diablo Valley College before getting his undergraduate degree at California State University, Fresno.
White was on the swim and water polo teams while at Fresno State and wanted to become a coach for those sports.
He said in order to coach at a high school level, he needed a master's degree, so he then returned to the Bay Area where he got it at Cal State University Hayward, now Cal State East Bay.
White then wanted to coach those sports at the collegiate level and needed to get a doctorate degree, which he earned at UC Berkeley.
White has had stints working at Oregon State University, the University of Idaho, the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley before becoming chancellor at UC Riverside.
"This is a very important job and I'm pleased and proud that the board has selected somebody who understands the California state schools' mission," Chancellor Reed said of White's hire.
White was the unanimous decision by the CSU Board of Trustees to be Reed's successor.
University of California President Mark Yudof issued a statement Thursday morning on the selection, calling White "an excellent choice to lead the California State University system."
Yudof said he will appoint an interim chancellor for UC Riverside in the near future.
"While he will be missed, it is no small consolation knowing that, with Chancellor White at the helm of the CSU, the University of California
will continue to have a well-placed partner and ally in the fight to preserve public higher education in California," Yudof said.
As chancellor at UC Riverside, White was leading a campus of 21,000 students. As the CSU chancellor, he'll be overseeing more than 420,000 students.
Eight members of the 25-member Board of Trustees were selected to be part of a special committee to consider candidates for the position. The committee met in closed session on June 28, Aug. 21 and Sept. 11 to discuss the matter.
Before making a final selection, the board brought in an eight-member group of external stakeholders to provide input. The board and stakeholders met in a closed session on Wednesday before naming White Thursday.
Comments
San Ramon
on Oct 7, 2012 at 3:20 pm
on Oct 7, 2012 at 3:20 pm
University of California Berkeley Chancellor Provost salary #756,000. Democrat and Republican, you can help Cal. The public’s University of California harvests family savings, Alumni donations, supporter’s money and taxes. Cal. ranked #1 public university total academic cost (resident) as a result of the Provost’s, Chancellor’s ‘charge resident’s higher tuition’. UCB tuition is rising faster than other universities.
Cal ranked # 2 nationally in faculty earning potential. Spending on salaries increased 29% in last six years. Believe it: Harvard College less costly.
University of California negates promise of equality of opportunity: access, affordability. Self-absorbed Provost Breslauer Chancellor Birgeneau are outspoken on ‘charging residents much higher’ tuition.
Birgeneau ($450,000) Breslauer ($306,000) like to blame the politicians, since they stopped giving them their entitled funding. The ‘charge instate students higher tuition’ skyrocketed fees by an average 14% per year from 2006 to 2011 academic years. If they had allowed fees to rise at the same rate of inflation over past 10 years fees would still be in reach of middle income students. Breslauer Birgeneau increase disparities in higher education, defeat the promise of equality of opportunity, and create a less-educated work force.
Republican, Democrat, and Tea Party you can help. The sluggish economy, 10% unemployment devastates family savings. Simply asking for more taxes (Prop 30, 32, 38) to spend on self-absorbed Cal. leadership, inefficient higher education practices, over-the-top salaries, lavish bonuses, is not the answer. Additional state tax funding must sunset:
UCB is to maximize access to the widest number of residence at a reasonable cost. Birgeneau Breslauer’s ‘charge Californians higher tuition’ denies middle income families the transformative value of Cal.
The California dream: keep it alive and well. Fire Provost George W Breslauer. Birgeneau resigned. Cal. leadership must accept responsibility for failing Californians.
Opinions? UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu Calif. State Senators, Assembly members
Sycamore Place
on Oct 7, 2012 at 4:28 pm
on Oct 7, 2012 at 4:28 pm
What is the average salary of a chancellor like person in a private school? If you
want top notch public education - you have to pay top notch. If you dont -- then public education will go to the dogs and the only education left will be private and everyone will have to pay for this.
By this time - half the readers have already tuned off and made their judgement.
Now - I'm certainly not arguing that this other reality isn't acceptable or better -- but I want to make sure you realize clearly what the end game is going to be. No safety nets ... and then we are all off to the races.
Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:45 am
on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:45 am
Notice that the new Chancellor got his start at the community college level then progressed to eventually earning his doctorate degree. Without the passage of Prop 30, the community colleges will lose funding. Students who might otherwise not attend college will lose out. This eventually affect everyone, not just youth, as we all know education leads to better employment, stable economy, etc. Vote wisely....
Stoneridge
on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:58 am
on Oct 8, 2012 at 8:58 am
I completely agree with Milan.
Btw...democrats gave been in control of the education
system for so long. Yet they are the ones who complain.
These people should care more about education than
pensions. All they care about is raising taxes for their
Own salaries.
Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 9, 2012 at 8:43 am
on Oct 9, 2012 at 8:43 am
Salaries for college administrators and faculty have gotten way out of hand. It is one of the leading causes of the skyrocketing price of a college education. Unfortunately, it won't stop until parents start boycotting institutions with high tuitions.
Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Oct 9, 2012 at 9:16 am
on Oct 9, 2012 at 9:16 am
Community Colleges are the way to go these days. The Universities will suck us dry if we continue to let them charge these insane tuitions. Time to take a stand and stand along side the Alternative Choices.
Castlewood
on Oct 9, 2012 at 9:47 am
on Oct 9, 2012 at 9:47 am
Such a salary is a really good indication of how pathetic California is becoming when it comes to education. I am confident that someone could be found for half that salary and do a better job.
Livermore
on Oct 14, 2012 at 7:58 pm
on Oct 14, 2012 at 7:58 pm
It seems to me that the somebody out slicked others with a nice hefty salary.
tee hee hee...
signed,
jealous bug