speak at the 26th annual Yolo County Women's History Month luncheon. Katehi also 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. Resumption of academic work In July 2017, the Sacramento Bee reported that Katehi would begin teaching at UC Davis again in the 2017-18 academic year as a "distinguished professor". She would receive an equivalent salary to her salary as chancellor. Public interest experts criticized the move as atypical, noting that Katehi's salary would be higher than any other professor in her department, even those with full teaching loads. While UC Davis officials initially announced her position as being an engineering and gender studies professor, they revealed a few weeks later that she would only be teaching one engineering class every academic quarter. Salary experts again criticized the situation as inequitable in comparison with Katehi's high salary. Controversies University of Illinois clout scandal Before coming to UC Davis, Katehi served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from April 1, 2006, to June 2009. As the Provost, she oversaw all Colleges and Schools, the Library, HR, IT, facilities and was in charge of the university budget. She oversaw the admissions for UIUC during part of the time period (2003-2009) that came to be investigated under of the University of Illinois clout scandal. Katehi denied involvement, saying the "Category I" decisions were made at higher administrative levels. That was also confirmed by the findings as described in the report published by the investigative committee. In August 2015, a federal judge allowed a spoliation of evidence claim to proceed against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in an action that was associated with the resignation of the Chancellor. Rather than litigating the claim as to destroying evidence, the University of Illinois settled the action at cost of more than $2 million. UC Davis pepper-spray incident On November 18, 2011, Katehi requested Occupy movement protesters on the UC Davis campus remove their tents from the quad. When the group of peaceful protestors refused to move, campus police officers pepper sprayed them while they sat on the ground, linking arms. Eleven protesters received medical treatment; two were hospitalized. Katehi stated there had been "no option" except police action due to health and safety concerns, participation of some non-UC