...the Katehi saga continues:
UC Davis professors are engaged in a battle of letters over the future of Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, with a general line emerging between critics in humanities departments and supporters who share her science background.
The chancellor has been under fire since The Sacramento Bee reported in early March that she had accepted a paid board seat with DeVry Education Group, which has been under federal scrutiny for allegedly exaggerating job placement and income statistics. The Bee also reported that Katehi was a paid member on the board of textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons, earning a total of $420,000 across the 2012 through 2014 fiscal years...
On Monday, 20 UC Davis humanities professors wrote a letter to local media supporting student protesters and calling for Katehi’s resignation...
That letter came after 33 faculty members – 32 of whom teach in science-based fields – sent a letter to The Bee in support of Katehi, who began her career as an engineering professor. On Tuesday, 67 faculty members, including 19 who signed the letter to The Bee, signed a petition to UC President Janet Napolitano supporting Katehi...
The petition to Napolitano was short: “We, the undersigned, wish to express our support for Chancellor Linda Katehi. Although the current issues regarding Outside Professional Activities by Senior Leadership warrant a full review by UCOP (the UC Office of the President) and the regents, they do not rise to the level of resignation.”
The 67 who signed that letter are primarily professors from science departments, although they include six law professors and one Spanish professor...
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