“University Diaries” at Inside Higher Ed has a nice, unvarnished quality. Here “UD” bats off on the firing of Robert Dynes, president of the University of California system:

There’s so much money around! And universities — even public ones — operate with little scrutiny. Look at the two campus scandals in the news lately — the loan industry thing, and now the study abroad thing. They’re about what happens when you figure no one’s looking, and no one’s going to look. Similarly, the scandal that brought down Dynes — he oversaw an elaborate procedure rewarding high-level administrators with all sorts of monetary goodies — was about practices that evolve when you figure no one’s looking.