Good–way late, though. She is not a good person.
The pepper-spray incident and the violent dismantling of the tent city were teachable moments. But only if the university leadership learned from them first, which they appear unwilling to do.
What are you upset about? Aren’t public universities supposed to be piggy banks? I mean, what are student fees, tuition, and state support for except to make sure your daughter-in-law gets a raise that’s more that many Californians live on in a year?
well, that was a…slow response!
Finally! Not a California native, but I can never forget her walk of shame, as she whimpered and mewed like a kitten afraid that students might “hurt” her after she had more or less directed the police to use violence against protesters (some students, some not). All I could think was, in her world, her little, itty bitty privileged brain, she could not imagine a different way to respond to people you disagree with other than to rough them up, hence, her fear for her safety. And it turns out, of course, that prior to UC, she was a pivotal member in a “pay to play” scheme at her position at the University of Illinois, whereby children of wealthy parents were admitted after being first rejected, when, you guessed it, their parents made healthy donations. How in God’s name did someone so clearly inadequate get and hold such a high ranking position?
“…did not immediately reply…”
It’s always been a weird statement made by nearly every news organization. Immediately? What does that really mean, that someone failed to instantly blurt out a reply?
Why not something like, “As of the time this story was published, not reply has been received.”?
When academic administrators stop thinking like faculty members, trouble usually follows.
It sounds like she’s been running Davis as a private fiefdom. Seriously – allowing a subordinate to hire your child? Whatever happened to the Good Old Boy’s and Girl’s Network? You pull a string or two at UC Merced and get her started there. Berkeley or UCSF might be a little tougher, but doable depending on her connections there. If she really wanted to be discreet about using the network, send her to one of the CSUs. And the same thing with sonny-boy: You want to study epidemiology? Good on ya, we’re gonna need more epidemiologists. There are good departments at UCSF, UCLA and UCSD. It will do you good to live on your own for a little while.
Hey, kids… “police officer” and “university chancellor”… both jobs where you get a paid vacation for doing your job badly but go for “university chancellor” because that one gets a 90 day “extendable” paid vacation instead of the lame 30 day vacation police officers get.
I wonder if her name means, “Skunk” in Greek?
She has been nothing short of monstrous, a grifter…
prior to UC, she was a pivotal member in a “pay to play” scheme at her position at the University of Illinois, whereby children of wealthy parents were admitted after being first rejected, when, you guessed it, their parents made healthy donations.
This isn’t the first time I’ve read about clearly incompetent and/or corrupt university adminstrator types fail upward from one job to the next. WTF are these institutions thinking?
Just checked out her wiki bio, and came across this nugget:
“Katehi has also shared her experience of being a student at the National Technical University during the student uprisings against the Greek dictatorial regime that was violently crushed by a combined military and police force on November 17, 1973.”
The irony, it burns…
…the campus had spent at least $175,000 on Internet search optimization consultants…
Oh, I know what that means - a bunch of guys in India with a tenuous grasp of English post a bunch of spammy links on totally unrelated websites. Any company or organization that pays for “SEO” is managed by people who don’t know what they’re doing.
At the risk of exposing myself to a charge of gender bias, every time I have crossed paths with academe, I’ve run into, and up against, a woman like her with the exact same mindset encysted deeply into administration. And they always bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Imperious, a player of the patronage and favor trading, builders of bureaucratic bunkers, and actually hostile to the pesky students, albeit almost always in a smiling passive aggressive snakish fashion.
The male bumblers and backstabbers in higher ed admin tend to form clubby old boy networks from which their female counterparts are excluded like dumb gurls from a tree fort. I think the Ketehi archetype forms in response to that exclusion.
“Hello, I am from the Vindows technical department, okay?”
Not just in academia.
This is how Trickle Down economics works.
Imperious, a player of the patronage and favor trading, builders of bureaucratic bunkers, and actually hostile to the pesky students, albeit almost always in a smiling passive aggressive snakish fashion.
My wife and I both have long experience in working with administrative/faculty people at a large and relatively prestigious midwestern university, and both of us have also encountered exactly the kind of people you describe, male and female.
“Hello, I am from the Vindows technical department, okay?”
Funny you should mention that—for the past couple of months, I’ve been getting one or two calls per week on my landline at home from some poor sap in Delhi or Kolkata or Bangalore offering me technical service on my Windows computer. It’s sort of a bizarre form of email spam… what percentage of their phone calls leads to any money in their pockets? And what percentage of their calls are made to people like me who use only a Mac?
Yes to all of this. And they all seem to have big hair. Seriously, in my experience.
There are also a whole lot more of those male bumblers who have no idea what they are doing at all.
They are making big bucks by extorting people. If you cooperate with them, they will seize your PC and then ransom it. It’s a huge, huge scam.