Article: UC system president to resign next year.

Byline: Lisa M. Krieger

Aug. 14--University of California President Robert C. Dynes announced Monday he is stepping down, effective in June next year, ending a five-year presidency marred by a systemwide compensation scandal but that also included expansion of research at the universities' 10 campuses.

The 64-year-old physicist said he is relinquishing his post to enjoy a new marriage and continue his research into superconductivity at the University of California-San Diego.

Asked by reporters if he was pressured to resign, he responded buoyantly: "Yes -- by my wife."

"There are many challenges that UC is facing. The largest is that ...

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