Father of two UC students speaks against appointment of Janet Napolitano as UC president
I remember that when the small federal budget reduction was implemented, Janet Napolitano held airline passengers hostage by deliberately reducing the number of TSA security personnel in airports to create an artificial logjam to avoid implementing the budget cut in her department. As a cabinet member, she was obviously only interested in building her own power and grabbing the most gain for herself — she was not a team player, and she did not have the welfare of the public, whom she should have served, in mind. Now I am afraid that she will again try to grab the most gain for herself in her position of UC president and will not have the welfare of UC student and faculty communities, which she should serve, in mind and will look after for herself only. We need to question her on her motivations in coming to the UC system (because she has no education administration background at all), her visions of the UC system’s future and her various interim goals of accomplishment over her tenure at UC in order to fully understand whether she is truly fit to lead the UC system. The university has suffered over the last few years from poor leadership. This system is too important an institution to be entrusted to a self-serving politician now.
— Thomas Yang,
California resident