‘We don’t sit around saying ‘woe is me.” Napolitano prepares to fill sudden chancellor vacancies at UC Berkeley, UC Davis
Then UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi stepped down last week, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Napolitano called the sudden vacancies an opportunity for a new start… Wasting no time, Napolitano issued a letter Wednesday to the UC Berkeley Academic Senate chairman outlining the new chancellor search process. The goal is to submit a candidate to the UC Board of Regents by March for Berkeley and by January for Davis… UC officials said Napolitano’s bold leadership started immediately. As a homeland security chief who presided over record numbers of deportations, she faced protests from immigrant-rights advocates and undocumented students. On her second day in office, she invited several of them to meet with her.
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by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times.