Editing University of California (section)

====Official residences====
[[File:University House UC Berkeley.jpg|thumb|right|[[University House, Berkeley]] served as the official residence of the UC President from 1911 until 1958. Today it serves Berkeley's Chancellor.]]
Besides substantial six-figure incomes, the UC president and all UC chancellors enjoy controversial perks such as free housing in the form of university-maintained mansions.<ref name="sfgate_free_mansions">{{Cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNGDFFO0JJ1.DTL |title=Free mansions for people of means: UC system spends about $1 million yearly on upkeep |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=November 14, 2005 |page=A9 |author=Tanya Schevitz & Todd Wallack |access-date=July 10, 2006 |archive-date=March 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310203540/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNGDFFO0JJ1.DTL |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1962, Anson Blake's will donated his {{convert|10|acre|m2|adj=on}} estate ([[Blake Garden, Kensington|Blake Garden]]) and mansion (Blake House) in [[Kensington, California|Kensington]] to the University of California's Department of Landscape Architecture. In 1968, the regents decided to make Blake House the official residence of the UC president. As of 2005, it cost around $300,000 per year to maintain Blake Garden and Blake House; the latter, built in 1926, is a {{convert|13239|sqft|m2|adj=on}} mansion with a view of San Francisco Bay.<ref name="sfgate_free_mansions"/>

Blake House has sat vacant since President Dynes departed in 2008, due to the high cost of needed seismic strengthening and renovating its dilapidated interior (estimated at $3.5 million in 2013).<ref name="Dinkelspiel">{{cite news |last1=Dinkelspiel |first1=Frances |author-link=Frances Dinkelspiel |title=University of California buys $6.5M Berkeley home for its president |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/04/12/uc-buys-6-5-million-berkeley-mansion-president |access-date=September 30, 2022 |work=Berkeleyside |date=April 12, 2022 |archive-date=September 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930052759/https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/04/12/uc-buys-6-5-million-berkeley-mansion-president |url-status=live }}</ref> From 2008 to 2022, all three UC presidents during that timeframe (i.e., Yudof, Napolitano, and Drake) lived in rented homes.<ref name="Dinkelspiel" /> In 2022, UC finally purchased the [[Selden Williams House]], a {{convert|6400|sqft|m2|adj=on}} house in Berkeley, for $6.5 million to serve as the UC president's official residence.<ref name="Dinkelspiel" /> UC had previously owned the same home from 1971 to 1991, when it served as the official residence of the UC vice president.<ref name="Dinkelspiel" /> (UC no longer has a single "vice president"; the president's direct reports now have titles like "executive vice president", "senior vice president", or "vice president".<ref name="UCOPOrgChart">{{cite web |title=University of California Office of the President Organizational Chart |url=https://www.ucop.edu/president/_files/ucop-org-chart.pdf |website=University of California Office of the President |publisher=Regents of the University of California |access-date=November 17, 2022 |date=July 29, 2022 |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117144624/https://www.ucop.edu/president/_files/ucop-org-chart.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>) 
[[File:2821 Claremont Boulevard.jpg|thumb|[[Selden Williams House]], built in 1928 and designed by architect [[Julia Morgan]], serves as the official residence of the UC President, since 2022.]]
All UC chancellors traditionally live for free in a mansion on or near campus that is usually known as ''University House'', where they host social functions attended by guests and donors.<ref>See University of California Regents Policy 7708, [https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/7708.html "University-Provided Housing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240817140659/https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/7708.html |date=August 17, 2024 }}, as amended through February 27, 2024, and University of California Policy BFB-G-45, [https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/3420356/BFB-G-45 "Implementing Requirements on Expenses Incurred in Support of Official Responsibilities of the President and Chancellors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008231400/https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/3420356/BFB-G-45 |date=October 8, 2022 }}, as amended through November 1, 2016, p. 2.</ref> Berkeley's [[University House, Berkeley|University House]] formerly served as the official residence of the UC president, but is now the official residence of Berkeley's chancellor. UCSD's [[Audrey Geisel University House|University House]] was closed from 2004 to 2014 for $10.5 million in renovations paid for by private donors, which were so expensive because the 12,000-square-foot structure sits on top of a sacred Native American cemetery and next to an unstable coastal bluff.<ref name="Kucher">{{cite news |last1=Kucher |first1=Karen |title=Chancellor's home gets $10M rehab |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2013/dec/19/university-house-ucsd-chancellor-khosla-geisel/ |access-date=January 14, 2016 |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=December 19, 2013 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064306/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2013/dec/19/university-house-ucsd-chancellor-khosla-geisel/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Schwab">{{cite news |last1=Schwab |first1=Dave |title=10 years later, Chancellor's house finally becomes a home |url=http://sdnews.com/bookmark/24447797-10-years-later-Chancellor-s-house-finally-becomes-a-home |access-date=January 14, 2016 |work=SDNews.com |publisher=San Diego Community News Group |date=January 24, 2014 |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820014705/http://sdnews.com/bookmark/24447797-10-years-later-Chancellor-s-house-finally-becomes-a-home |url-status=dead }}</ref> Not all chancellors prefer to live on campus; at Santa Barbara, Chancellor [[Robert Huttenback]] found that campus's University House to be unsatisfactory, then was convicted in 1988 of embezzlement for his unauthorized use of university funds to improve his off-campus residence.<ref name="Ebenstein">{{cite journal |last1=Ebenstein |first1=Lanny |title=The Rise of UCSB |journal=Noticias: Journal of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum |date=2013 |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=117–183 |url=https://issuu.com/santabarbaramuseum/docs/132309_noticias_web |access-date=August 18, 2020 |author-link1=Alan O. Ebenstein |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905061544/https://issuu.com/santabarbaramuseum/docs/132309_noticias_web |url-status=live }} (At pp. 160-163.)</ref>