New chancellor at UC Riverside

The next chancellor of UC Riverside will be Timothy P. White, a physiologist who has been the president of the University of Idaho for four years, the UC Board of Regents announced today.

White, 58, emigrated as a child with his family from Argentina first to Canada and later to California, where he earned degrees at Cal State Fresno and Cal State Hayward and then a doctorate at UC Berkeley. An expert in human bio-dynamics and aging, he taught at UC Berkeley and held high administrative posts at Oregon State University.

White, who will earn $325,000 a year plus benefits, starts work at the 17,000-student campus by September. He succeeds France A. Córdova, who resigned last year to become president of Purdue University. An acting chancellor, Robert D. Grey, has headed the school since then.

In other action today, the regents gave final approval to a controversial 7.4%, or $490, raise in undergraduate fees and larger amounts for graduate students.

-- Larry Gordon