Anyone who needs a lot of money, as the University of California says it does, gets thinking about the fastest, easiest ways to bring in cash:
Cut employees' health care plans: $100 million. Raid the endowment: $20 million. Charge more for parking and shift money to the pension plan: Could rake in millions.
"I know some of these ideas will give real heartburn to the people around this table," UC President Mark Yudof told the regents who gathered this week in San Francisco.
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