UC President Janet Napolitano's office announced Wednesday that she is appointing an outside investigator to determine whether the actions of Chancellor Linda Katehi have violated university policies. She has been at the post for nearly seven years.
The 62-year-old Katehi came under fire early in her tenure at Davis when campus police officers used pepper spray on seated demonstrators during a November 2011 protest.
"Information has recently come to light that raises serious questions about whether Chancellor Katehi may have violated several University of California policies," Napolitano said in a statement. "Including questions about the campus's employment and compensation of some of the chancellor's immediate family members, the veracity of the chancellor's accounts of her involvement in contracted related to managing both the campus's on her personal reputation on social media and the potential use of student fees."
At the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year, Katehi will be on investigatory administrative leave.
"I am deeply disappointed to take this actions," Napolitano said. "But Davis is a strong campus, nationally and internationally renowned in many academic disciplines. I'm confident of the campus's continued ability to thrive and serve California students and the Davis community."
Calls for her resignation resurfaced after The Sacramento Bee reported in March that Katehi had accepted a seat on the board of a for-profit college company and earned more than $400,000 as a director for a textbook publisher.
