Seattle Exporting Corrupt Bureaucrats

If all of the recent corruption scandals at the University of Washington haven't been enough, along comes word from the Santa Cruz Sentinel that Seattle is now exporting this "academic" slime to the University of California, Santa Cruz:

SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California created a $192,000-a-year job for the partner of the new UC Santa Cruz chancellor, a move that is being criticized by employee unions.

Union officials representing staff at the 10-campus system say the move is a mistake at a time when the university is cutting budgets and raising fees.

UC officials defended hiring Gretchen Kalonji, the longtime partner of incoming Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Dee Denton. They described Kalonji as a highly qualified professor who will be an asset in her new job as director of international strategy development.

Kalonji, a professor of materials science at the University of Washington in Seattle and an expert in international education, also is getting a tenured professorship, perhaps at UCSC.