The relatively incomplete state salary database shows UC Davis as having 21,154 employees. UC campuses are huge enterprises and contain a lot more than some cl

The relatively incomplete state salary database shows UC Davis as having 21,154 employees. UC campuses are huge enterprises and contain a lot more than some classrooms and dorms. Davis for instance, runs one of the few Californian hospitals that is both an Adult and Pediatric Level 1 trauma center. Davis has many other things you wouldn't expect, for instance, the campus also has an airport and a fire department. University of California, by employee count, is larger than Intel. Larger than Google, Yahoo and Apple combined. 6 times the size of NASA and is several times over the size of General Mills. Just to give you an idea. UC is a very complex organism and many of its campuses are non-trivial. UC also plays a role in running our nuclear program and has various units that need to comply with HIPPA and/or national security regulations for dealing with classified information. So... I'm not surprised at that number and it's definitely nowhere near as far off as you speculated even if it was a little high. More related to the main story, UC policy currently prohibits use of Gmail applications for non-student affiliates of the university due to security, policy and compliance issues. UC Davis was one of the leading campuses trying to change this, (and I think they might have been approved for a pilot or something?) but it appears they've backed off. (Edit: Ah yes, you'll note the article explicitly cites a section of their notice stating that the UC ECP does not allow for this type of data sharing since the university can't get Google to agree to the necessary data privacy constraints.)