That’s evident they loved him at The Ohio State University in the video made for him when he announced that he would be stepping as president a few weeks ago. You can see it on Youtube, with a search “President Drake Farewell Tribute.”
He’s credited with bringing UCI up, doubling its applications, but some of that can partly be with a nationwide increase in college-age students.
As far as fundraising, I don’t really see that as a function of the University of California Office of the President, “UCOP.” It undoubtedly has a general fund that is dispersed to the individual campuses, but not many think it’s sexy to donate to the system, when one can donate to a specific campus. And I didn’t know that the UCOP would forward names for campus chancellors; I thought it was a campus senate thing.