UC-Davis Chancellor Survives No-Confidence Vote From Faculty

February 18, 2012, 8:48 am

University of California at Davis faculty members have voted against a motion of no confidence in Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, university officials announced on Friday. The motion was prompted by the pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters by a campus police officer in November. More than a third of the eligible faculty members cast votes, with 69 percent voting against it, according to The Sacramento Bee.

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ucprof

I am pleased to see this outcome. IMO the Davis Chancellor has been skewered by the local media even before she took office, to a degree I do not see for other administrators in the UC system. In general it’s been a terrible time for UC administrators – I believe many faculty would not touch those positions with a ten foot poll given the crossfire between the media, budget cuts, protests, etc.
davisrefugee

I disagree with ucprof: if you check the history of the Davis campus, the faculty are never brave enough to vote against the chancellor or the administration, no matter how unethical or unprofessional the chancellor or administration has been. Various No Confidence votes came up in the past; not one ever passed. You are looking at one cowardly group of people there. Probably too busy subverting or challenging or revisioning social paradigms to pay attention to how compromised ethically they are by going along with corrupt administrators.
salchaktoka

Well, I guess this only means that the UC-Davis faculty are just as worthless as Spraycans Katehi.
willynilly

Note to davisrefugee - It may not be the lack of bravery. It could be the presence of astuteness. Let’s see how this whole scene plays out. It’s too early, davisrefugee, to make the call you did with respect to this matter.
godard

a ten foot “poll?” and you are a professor at UC? you and katehi should consider going into business together, instead.
average_joe

The title “UC-Davis Chancellor Survives N-Confidence Vote From Faculty” indicates the bias of the writer and perhaps The Chronicle.
Since the motion against Dr. Katehi lost by nearly 70%, the headline should have been “Rebel Rousers were trounced at UC Davis.” Oh, well, you are in the business of chasing a man biting a dog.