SAN FRANCISCO
Robert C. Dynes, the president of the University of California system who took responsibility for a pay scandal among top administrators, said Monday he plans to resign next year
Dynes’ tenure as head of the renowned public system began in October 2003 and will end June 2008, near the five-year mark he set for himself when he took the job. A physicist before taking charge of the 10-campus system, he plans to refocus on his superconductivity research and spend time with his new wife.
He said he was not pressured to leave because of the controversy over executive pay that clouded the last year of his tenure.
“I chose not to leave in the middle of that until we got it resolved,” he said at a press conference Monday. “I feel we’ve come through that.”
Under Dynes’ leadership, the university system overcame budget troubles and ensured future state funding by forging a deal with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, university officials said. It opened a new research campus in Merced and won three Department of Energy national laboratory management competitions.
