{"id":18368,"date":"2013-07-12T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18368"},"modified":"2013-07-12T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:41:05","slug":"napolitano-leaving-dhs-for-uc-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18368\/napolitano-leaving-dhs-for-uc-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Napolitano Leaving DHS for UC Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Time is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-president-20130712,0,83979.story\" target=\"_blank\">Janet Napolitano is resigning as Secretary of Homeland Security<\/a> to become the president of the 10-campus University of California system.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the flashy headlines \u2013 first female to lead UC in its 145 year history, new compensation more than triple her DHS salary \u2013 Napolitano\u2019s appointment heralds a new direction for higher education administration that doesn\u2019t bode well for taxpayers: The rise of the politician-turned-university president.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is simple. Most top-tier research universities are addicted to federal research spending. With Napolitano, UC leaders see a soon-to-be-former Cabinet member able to lobby effectively for increased cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences\u2026will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas,\u201d according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this with former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels\u2019 presidency at Purdue \u2013 where the one-time private industry executive is getting large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2013\/Q1\/65-million-committed-to-purdue-ag--universitys-largest-gift.html\" target=\"_blank\">individua<\/a>l and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdueexponent.org\/opinion\/article_aca2b438-6d7f-5983-a911-3df41eb55c6f.html\" target=\"_blank\">corporate<\/a> donations to fund the public university\u2019s research expansion \u2013 and higher education may become the next arena where conservatives and liberals chart different paths on how to pay for education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Time is reporting that Janet Napolitano is resigning as Secretary of Homeland Security to become the president of the 10-campus University of California system. Beyond the flashy headlines \u2013 first female to lead UC in its 145 year history, new compensation more than triple her DHS salary \u2013 Napolitano\u2019s appointment heralds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,4117,661,516,913],"class_list":["post-18368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-dhs","tag-higher-education","tag-janet-napolitano","tag-mitch-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18372,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions\/18372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}