Indian-origin University of California chancellor gets $500,000 pay raise

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After the hike in his salary, Khosla will be earning $1.14 million a year in base pay beginning Monday, May 1...

While the private sector employees reel under the scare of layoffs in the aftermath of job cuts by tech giant Google, an Indian-American computer scientist Pradeep Kumar Khosla has a contrasting story to tell..

Khosla who is the eighth chancellor of University of California, San Diego has received a pay raise by a whopping $500,000...

As per reports, the University of California Board of Regents made the decision of Khosla's pay hike, to prevent him from accepting the presidency of an unnamed, private, out-of-state college...

There was a very, very strong commitment from the community to get this done because of what Pradeep has meant to San Diego, including helping to bring the Blue Line trolley to campus and building lots of housing, said University of California Board of Regents chair Rich Lieb...