UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi has been put on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into conflicts of interest and wasting money on useless PR.
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Katehi has only grown in infamy since presiding over the school during the infamous pepper spraying scandal of 2011. It was recently reported that she paid at least $175,000 to consultants to try to scrub the incident from Google search results.
She did not do a very good job. Thanks, Barbra Streisand Effect!
And that’s just the beginning. During her time as Chancellor she was on the board of a textbook company, receiving $420,000 over a two year period. She also had a paid seat on the board of the for-profit DeVry Education Group, which is facing scrutiny from federal officials over recruiting practices.
She’s also accused of hiring members of her family in violation of university rules. Her daughter-in-law received a $50,000 increase in pay over a two-and-a-half year period. Katehi even moved the paid research program her son works in to the department supervised by her daughter-in-law. This means that her son reported to her daughter-in-law who reported to a direct underling of Katehi.
The university says the paid leave will last 90 days, where Katehi will earn another cool $106,000 in salary — not to mention costing the additional public funds poured in to the investigation itself.
