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UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi Moonlighted Abroad to End Campus Anti-Austerity Demonstrations — in Greece

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University of California Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi won’t resign her post because, she says, she needs toearn the students’ trust. Somehow, she proposes the University heal with her remaining at its helm.

“I really feel confident at this point the university needs me,” she told GMA …. “There are so many critical issues to be addressed and we really need to start the healing process and move forward.”

Her leadership at Davis is not, however, Linda Katehi’s first experience suppressing student dissent. She appears to have a global reputation in the field. She was a member of a Committee of Experts that recommended the Greek government abolish its University Asylum Law, enacted in 1973. The law’s central