Photo courtesy Purdue University Linda Katehi is UC Davis' newest chancellor, as of August 17, 2009.
UC President Mark Yudoff appointed Katehi on May 1, 2009. The UC Regents confirmed the appointment at their May 7 meeting. She replaces outgoing chancellor Larry Vanderhoef.
Katehi is currently the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position she has held since 2005. Prior to that, she was the dean of engineering at Purdue University. She's an electrical engineer.
Partly because Katehi was hired at the beginning of the budget crisis, several newspapers reports and some state legislators drew attention to her starting total compensation of $400,000. (Total compensation means salary plus certain benefits.) ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
For comparison, the two highest-paid UC employees are Cal football coach Jeff Tedford and UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland, each of whom has guaranteed compensation of $1,900,000 plus bonuses. Various UC doctors, and several other coaches and athletic directors, had compensation of $500,000 or more in 2008-9. The two highest administrative salaries (as opposed to doctors) at UC Davis are those of Ann Rice ($665,000), the CEO of the medical center, and Claire Pomeroy ($628,000), the vice chancellor of the medical center.
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Wait, there are female EE's? —BrentLaabs
I think I was more shocked than you. I like this trend. :)
The late Chancellor Denton of UC Santa Cruz was also an EE. —TimMatthiessen
2009-07-30 03:23:27 Anyone want to post information regarding the scandal involving her? —ThUn
2009-07-30 05:36:15 Here's a story on her scandal from the Vanguard— Katehi Scandal —DavidGreenwald
2009-08-03 15:56:10 David's article gives one side of the Illinois Admissions Scandal, namely the way that it has been portrayed by a state senator and a labor union representative, and the way that it has been mentioned in California reports and in an article in the Chicago Tribune. However, the most authoritative source of information about the larger scandal is the Illinois Admissions Review Commission, which is an independent investigative board set up by the Governor of Illinois. (That is, the new governor Pat Quinn, not Blagojevich.) This commission has scheduled a dozen public hearings on the scandal, and it is posting recordings on-line. It has not been persuaded that Katehi played any important role. As far as I know, her name hasn't come up in the hearings at all. Anyone in California or Illinois, whether prominent or not, could ask the commission about Katehi. If anyone has asked, they haven't said what came of it.
2009-08-18 17:24:02 Addendum: The Admission Review Commission filed its report, and didn't mention Katehi at all.
2009-08-28 03:23:44 Linda K. needs to revitalize this struggling campus. None of the new buildings being built look architecturally nice. WiFi is slow. The homepage is ugly. The financial aid people are b*tches. I have many more suggestions! —OscarWao
