University of California President Janet Napolitano placed UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi on administrative leave Wednesday night and ordered a probe into "serious questions" raised about her involvement in campus jobs for family members, possible misuse of student service fee revenue and misstatements about her role in social media contracts.
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Katehi, a renowned scholar in electrical and computer engineering who became chancellor in 2009, has been widely criticized for questionable moonlighting activities and spending to cleanse the Internet of unfavorable publicity about campus police pepper-spraying peaceful student protesters in 2011.