Provost Claude Steele resigned amid accusations that the campus has mishandled sexual harassment cases.

SF Gate reports.

Ex-Smith College president named UC Berkeley interim provost

A UC Berkeley professor who once served as president of Smith College, a liberal arts women’s school in Massachusetts, has been named interim provost at UC Berkeley — a position that is key to the way the campus handles sex harassment problems.

The appointment of Carol Christ follows the resignation two weeks ago of Provost Claude Steele amid accusations that the campus has mishandled sexual harassment cases.

Christ previously served as UC Berkeley’s provost and executive vice chancellor from 1994 until 2000. She was Smith’s president from 2002 to 2013, when she returned to UC Berkeley to teach English.