There is behind-the-scenes litigation going on regarding the chancellor of UC-San Diego. As noted in a blog post yesterday, however, there was a presentation at the Regents last week about the strategic plan for UC-San Diego made mainly by the chancellor.* And the Regents clearly paid the accusations no mind. From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
The former director of investigations for the University of California alleges in a lawsuit that he was fired for challenging major changes to a critical review of the management style of UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. John A. Torres filed the lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court in October and names the University of California Board of Regents and Alexander Bustamante, a senior vice president in the UC Office of the President, as defendants. The lawsuit arose from an investigation that the president’s office launched in 2018 after it received a whistleblower complaint against Khosla. Nine current and former UCSD employees later told the Union-Tribune that an investigator asked them whether the chancellor had exhibited bullying behavior toward campus employees.
Torres says in his lawsuit that he participated in the investigation. He claims that the Regents and Bustamante “took steps to ‘protect’ the UCSD Chancellor by both limiting the scope of the investigation to not investigate gender discrimination allegations and by removing findings submitted by the investigator regarding discrimination, bullying, alcohol use and other inappropriate and illegal behavior by Chancellor Khosla.” The lawsuit also alleges that UC President Michael Drake commissioned a review of the whistleblower case after learning that gender discrimination allegations had not been investigated. Torres claims that he told University of California officials that “improper government activity” had occurred during the 2018 investigation, including numerous statements that Bustamante made to him about “protecting” Khosla...
Full story at https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2022-11-19/torres-lawsuit-uc-khosla-investigation.
Presumably, the Regents were briefed on this matter at some point in a closed session. Of course, we have no way of knowing what they have been told.
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/11/watch-regents-meeting-of-nov-17-2022.html.
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