Posted on 05/06/2012 6:31:54 AM PDT by SmithL
A former UC Berkeley assistant vice chancellor who doubled the salary of a male subordinate during a 15-month affair has been fired from the university.
Diane Leite, 47, who had already been bumped from her assistant vice chancellor's job, was dismissed from the six-figure-salary adviser's job where she had landed, UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof confirmed Friday.
Leite's relationship with purchasing manager Jonathan Caniezo, who is 17 years her junior, was detailed in a whistle-blower letter to her boss back in August. Records show that Caniezo's pay grew from $57,864 in late 2008 to $120,000 in 2010.
When the scandal went public in March, the university came under sharp attack, both on campus and in the state capital, for its decision not to fire the administrator.
An investigation concluded that Leite, who oversaw Caniezo's campus research department, had broken the school's sexual harassment policies. She was subsequently reassigned from her $188,000-a-year job as head of the research office to an adviser's role that paid $175,000.
Amid the subsequent public furor, sources familiar with the case tell us, Leite was asked to resign. Instead, she hired attorney and Oakland City Councilwoman Jane Brunner to fight her case. Her dismissal was recently upheld at an internal hearing.
"Everything was done by the book," said Mogulof, declining further to comment further.
Brunner did not return our calls.
With 30 years at the university, Leite is vested and will keep her pension, though she may fall short of the benchmark for receiving health benefits for life.
Incidentally, from what we hear, Caniezo is also facing serious disciplinary action from the university - with a big rollback of his salary.
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Maybe both of them are male, but one got the sex change
op.????
>Hate to say that, but nowadays and especially in
the capitalist channeling socialists (such are the
administrators in state funded universities)... how
would you know?
...and people wonder why tuition is so high? It’s because salaries of people who work at universities is totally out of proportion.
What no picturee of the punk ladder clinber?
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