1. Linda Katehi worked as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's provost from 2006 to 2009 and dean of engineering at Purdue University from 2002 to 2006.
49 Facts About Linda Katehi
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Linda Katehi was born in Athens and grew up on Salamis Island in Greece.
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In 1977, Linda Katehi graduated with a degree in electrical engineering.
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Linda Katehi was one of the two women in her class of 189 students and has stated that this led to many difficulties and biases against her during that time.
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Linda Katehi has stated that this motivated her to mentor women and other underrepresented minorities pursuing careers in engineering and the sciences.
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Linda Katehi has stated that she was drawn to electrical engineering as a teenager in 1969, when she watched Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Moon landing.
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Linda Katehi went on to earn her master's degree and doctorate in electrical engineering at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1981 and 1984, respectively.
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Linda Katehi began her teaching career in Greece, as a lecturer.
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Linda Katehi taught at the National Technical University of Athens Greece between 1977 and 1978.
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Linda Katehi then became a researcher at the Ministry of National Defence's Naval Research Lab in Athens, Greece.
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Linda Katehi was hired as the engineering dean at Purdue University in 2002.
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In 2005, Linda Katehi became the first female provost and vice-chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Linda Katehi was the first female chancellor of the university.
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Linda Katehi's expertise is in circuit design and her research focuses on antennas.
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Linda Katehi chaired the 12-member committee, along with the Secretary of Commerce's committee for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, until 2010.
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Linda Katehi was appointed to the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board in 2010.
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Linda Katehi is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2011, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Linda Katehi is a member of the National Academy of Engineering where she chaired the committee on K-12 engineering education for two years.
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Linda Katehi was appointed chancellor by the University of California Board of Regents on May 7,2009, effective August 17,2009.
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Linda Katehi holds UC Davis faculty appointments in electrical and computer engineering and in women and gender studies.
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Linda Katehi charged a committee with creating a new "Vision of Excellence" for the school.
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Linda Katehi launched several blue ribbon committees: tech transfer and commercialization, research, information technology excellence, and organizational excellence.
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Linda Katehi created the Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series As of 2009, Linda Katehi's base annual salary was $400,000.
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In 2013, Linda Katehi launched the UC Davis World Food Center, with the publicly stated goal of amplifying UC Davis' numerous programs involved in food, health and sustainability.
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In September 2014, Linda Katehi announced a partnership between Mars, Incorporated and UC Davis to create the Innovation Institute for Food and Health.
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Additionally, Linda Katehi announced a partnership with a government agency in Chile to expand research on a global level in conjunction with the UC Davis World Food Center.
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In September 2012, Linda Katehi was awarded a $3.725 million grant over 5 years from the National Science Foundation to establish an ADVANCE program at UC Davis, with the goal of increasing female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and careers.
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Linda Katehi serves as the principal investigator and chairs the project's steering committee.
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In March 2013, Linda Katehi was chosen to speak at the 26th annual Yolo County Women's History Month luncheon.
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Linda Katehi gave a keynote address about her work in STEM at the Consortium for Women and Research's annual Distinguished Women in Science Lecture Series in April 2013.
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Linda Katehi would receive a salary equivalent to her salary as chancellor.
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Linda Katehi oversaw the admissions for UIUC during part of the time period that came to be investigated under of the University of Illinois clout scandal.
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Linda Katehi denied involvement, saying the "Category I" decisions were made at higher administrative levels.
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On November 18,2011, Linda Katehi requested Occupy movement protesters on the UC Davis campus to remove their tents from the quad.
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Linda Katehi stated there had been "no option" except police action due to health and safety concerns, participation of some non-UC Davis persons in the protests, and some protestors' non-compliance with Linda Katehi's earlier written and police's oral directions.
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UC Davis Academic Senate Chair Linda Bisson criticized Katehi's slow response in providing information and taking disciplinary action against police, but she said most faculty wanted Katehi to stay in her post while being held accountable in some way.
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Linda Katehi said she took "full responsibility for the incident" and placed two officers and the chief of campus police on administrative leave.
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Linda Katehi later apologized for the DeVry board membership, calling it an error, and promised to donate $200,000 of her Wiley stock proceeds, out of the $420,000 compensation for serving on their board, to an undergraduate scholarship fund at UC Davis.
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The California Aggie later reported that Napolitano has asked Linda Katehi to resign as the UC Davis Chancellor.
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Linda Katehi faced criticism for her decision to join the board of the DeVry Education Group, a for-profit education corporation that offers online college degrees, at a time when DeVry was the subject of a federal investigation for misleading advertising practices.
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Linda Katehi received $70,000 a year for her service on DeVry's board.
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Linda Katehi had not received the permission of University of California president Janet Napolitano to serve on this board, as required by UC rules.
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Some elected officials and fellow academics faulted Linda Katehi for making personal profit from a firm whose practices and interests are in conflict with the values of public education that are central to the UC system; some saw the DeVry position as furthering a history of participation in ventures at odds with her responsibilities as chancellor of a public university.
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Linda Katehi served on the board of the textbook publisher John Wiley and Sons, which has been criticized for the high cost of textbooks, and which has a direct interest in the textbook choices made by UC Davis.
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Linda Katehi received $420,000 from Wiley and Sons as compensation for her services from 2012 to 2014.
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Linda Katehi cited correcting "the chronic lack of diversity on a number of boards" as a reason to join those boards.
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Linda Katehi served on this board with permission from the University of California.
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In March 2016, Linda Katehi said that she would donate all stock proceeds earned while serving on Wiley's board to a UC Davis scholarship fund.
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Linda Katehi served on the board of King Abdulaziz University of Saudi Arabia.