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 Chair

Andrea Kasko

 

Andrea M. Kasko
Professor of Bioengineering
akasko@senate.ucla.edu
(310) 825-3852

SUMMARY OF SERVICE

Senate Service

UC Systemwide Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA)(2019-present, Vice Chair 20-21, Chair 21-22); CCGA representative on the Council of Graduate Deans (2020-2021); UCACC (2020-2021); Academic Assembly (2021-2022); SSGPDP joint workgroup of UCPB and CCGA (2019-2021, co-chair 2020-2021). UCLA: Academic Senate Graduate Council 2016-2021 (Vice Chair 2018-2019; Chair 2019-2021); Executive Board (2019-2021); Legislative Assembly Department Representative (2018-2021); SSGPDP Ad Hoc Advisory Committee (2020-present).

Administrative Service

Member: UCOP Executive Budget Committee; Academic Planning Council (APC, 2021-2022); APC subcommittee on the Review of Master’s degree programs (Co-chair, 2021-2022) UCLA: COVID-19 Pandemic-Specific Service: UCLA Research Ramp-up subcommittee (2020); UCLA CRRTF Education Working Group (2020-present); UCLA CRRTF Research Continuity Group (2020-2021); various departmental committees including faculty search, graduate admissions, graduate curriculum.

Service to the University

UC Hispanic Serving Institution Doctoral Diversity Initiative Review Committee (2020-2022) UCLA: Learning Management System (LMS) Transformation Committee (2021-2022); Professional Standards and Ethics Training (PSET) Programmatic Sub-group (2021-2022); Post-Pandemic Research Visioning Working Group (2020-2021); Mentoring and Evaluation of Graduate Academic Progress (MEGAP) Implementation Workgroup (Co-chair, 2019-2021); UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research Selection Committee (2019, 2021); Gold Shield Prize Committee (2019); Schmidt Fellows Committee (2019); UCLA Faculty-in-Residence Fall (2011-2017); Reviewer, Amgen Scholars Program (2013-2017); Reviewer, UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (2013-2020); CNSI Building Use Committee Member (2008-2016); UCLA Regents Scholars Committee (2015). School of Engineering: UCLA Samueli Standing Committee on Diversity (2021-present); Diversity Council Representative (2017-2021); Faculty Executive Committee (2017-2022, Vice Chair 2018-2020); UCLA HSSEAS Diversity Committee (co-chair) (2015); Faculty Advisor, Society of Women Engineers (2008-2012); Bioengineering Department Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (Chair, 2021-present).

STATEMENT

The pandemic has posed challenges to higher education we never imagined, and quickly transformed our personal and professional lives. Faculty, administrators, staff and students have struggled to keep UCLA operational while keeping ourselves healthy and safe. As we return to campus, old challenges remain as critical new challenges emerge. The core mission of UCLA – research, education and service – is unchanged, yet the pandemic has exposed a transformative opportunity to rethink higher education. UCLA’s strong tradition of shared governance ensures that faculty voices shape the future of the institution. In the past five years, I have immersed myself in the UCLA and Systemwide Academic Senates, and am well-versed in many issues facing UCLA, including questions surrounding pedagogy, access and equity in the distance education landscape; the long-lasting (and uneven) impacts of the pandemic on faculty research and career progression; uncertainties about the transition to the new Bruin budget model; and the future of remote work and its impacts on the campus community. As a member of Senate leadership, I am committed to representing faculty voices as we work in partnership with the administration to make strategic decisions for the campus while maintaining our collective commitment to academic excellence.

 

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect 

Kathy Bawn

 

Kathleen Bawn
Professor of Political Science
kbawn@senate.ucla.edu

SUMMARY OF SERVICE

Senate Service

Undergraduate Council (2002-03, 2008-10, 2020-2023, Chair 2021-2023); Ad Hoc Committee for Online Undergraduate Teaching (Chair, 2022); Future of Instruction Task Force (2022); Executive Board 2021-present; Legislative Assembly 2021-present; Committee on Curriculum (Co-chair 2020-21); Committee on Teaching (2012-13).  Systemwide: University Committee on Education Policy (2021-2022, Vice Chair 2022-23.) 

Administrative Service

Infectious Disease Management Team (2022-23); CRRTF Education Working Group (2021-22); Department of Political Science Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies (2018-19, 2010-12, 2001-07) and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies (2016-18); various departmental committees including Recruitment, Graduate Admissions, Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies, Executive Committee.

Service to the University

Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) TA Training Advisory Board (2017-2019); CAT Instructional Improvement Program Committee (2017-19); Masters in Social Science (MaSS) Advisory Committee (2016-17) and MaSS Ad Hoc Committee 2014-2016.  Systemwide: External Reviewer for UC Davis Department of Political Science (2019); APC Work Group on the Future of Education (2022-2023).

 

Immediate Past Chair

Jessica Cattelino, Chair

 

Jessica R. Cattelino
Professor of Anthropology
jcattelino@senate.ucla.edu 

SUMMARY OF SERVICE

Senate Service

Graduate Council, Member (2014-15), Vice Chair (2015-16), and Chair (2016-17), plus Committee on Fellowships and Assistantships, Administrative Committee, Committee on Degree Programs, Committee on Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow Welfare. Executive Board of the Academic Senate (2016-17). Self-Supporting Graduate Professional Degree Programs Advisory Committee (2020-). UC Systemwide Academic Senate Assembly (2018-).

Administrative Service

Center for the Study of Women, Associate Director (2015-17, 2020-) and Senior Faculty Research Associate (2017-20). Post-Pandemic Research Visioning Working Group, Co-chair (2020-), and Research Continuity Working Group member (2020-), under the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force. American Indian Studies Center Director search committee, Chair (2014-15). Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Initiatives on Coastlines and People (2019). Executive Committee, Institute of American Cultures (2017-19). Committee on Educational Initiatives in the Social Sciences (2010-11). Various departmental committees including Awards, Standing Review, Diversity, Admissions, Graduate Curriculum, Graduate Student Wellbeing.

Service to the University

Offsite (2017-) and onsite (2020) selection, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. UCLA NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) Committee (2014-2019). Chancellor’s Campus Expansion Taskforce (2017-18). UCLA Enrollment Planning Task Force (2016-17). Undocumented Graduate Student Working Group (2017-18). External reviewer, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology (2019). Faculty Advisory Committees of the American Indian Studies Center (various; Chair 2014-15, Publications Committee Chair 2017-), American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program (various), and Center for the Study of Women (various; Chair 2015-16).

Parliamentarian

Derjung Mimi Tarn, Professor of Family Medicine

Secretary

Linda Sarna, Professor of Nursing

Elections Commissioner

Joseph Watson, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

 

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Past Chairs

2022 (Mar)-23 Jessica Cattelino Anthropology
2021-22 (Feb) Jody Kreiman Head and Neck Surgery / Linguistics
2020-21 Shane White Dentistry
2019-20 Michael Meranze History
2018-19 Joseph Bristow English
2017-18 Sandra Graham Education 
2016-17 Susan Cochran Public Health - Epidemiology
2015-16 Leo Estrada Public Affairs/Urban Planning
2014-15 Joel Aberbach Political Science
2013-14 Jan Reiff History & Statistics
2022 (Mar)-23 Jessica Cattelino Anthropology
2021-22 (Feb) Jody Kreiman Head and Neck Surgery / Linguistics
2020-21 Shane White Dentistry
2019-20 Michael Meranze History
2018-19 Joseph Bristow English
2017-18 Sandra Graham Education 
2016-17 Susan Cochran Public Health - Epidemiology
2015-16 Leo Estrada Public Affairs/Urban Planning
2014-15 Joel Aberbach Political Science
2013-14 Jan Reiff History & Statistics
2012-13  Linda Sarna Nursing  
2011-12 Andrew Leuchter Psychiatry 
2010-11 Ann Karagozian Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering   
2009-10 Robin L. Garrell Chemistry
2008-09 Michael Goldstein Public-Community Health     
2007-08 Elizabeth Ligon Bjork  Cognitive Psychology
2006-07 Vivek Shetty Dentistry - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
2005-06 Adrienne Lavine Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2004-05 Kathleen Komar Comparative Literature
2003-04 Clifford Brunk Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution
2002-03 Duncan Lindsey Social Welfare
2001-02 John Edmond Biological Chemistry
2000-01 Stephen C. Yeazell Law
1999-00 Donna L. Vredevoe Nursing
1998-99 Vickie Mays Psychology
1997-98  Chand Viswanathan  Electrical Engineering
1996-97  Aimée Dorr Education
1995-96  Charles Lewis Medicine
1994-95  Judith L. Smith Physiological Science
1993-94 Carole Goldberg-Ambrose Law
1992-93 Archie Kleingartner Management
1991-92 Seymour Feshbach Psychology
1990-91 David Kaplan Philosophy
1989-90 Sidney Roberts Biological Chemistry
1988-89 Charles Berst English
1987-88 Sydney Finegold Medicine
1986-87 David Chapman Biology
1985-86 Fred Massarick Management
1984-85 William Dignam Obstetrics & Gynecology
1983-84 Kenneth Trueblood Chemistry
1982-83 Murray Schwartz Law
1981-82 Samuel Aroni Architecture & Urban Planning
1980-81 Daniel Kivelson Chemistry
1979-80 David S. Maxwell Anatomy
1978-79 A. Theodore Forrester Engineering/Physics
1977-78 Florence Ridley English
1976-77 Raymond Orbach Physics
1975-76 Elwood Buffa Management
1974-75 Moses Greenfield Radiology
1973-74 David Wilson Political Science
1972-73 George Abell Astronomy
1970-71 Benjamin Aaron Law
1968-69 Lowell Paige Mathematics
1966-68 Thomas L. Jacobs Chemistry
1964-66 Robert E. Holzer Geophysics
1962-64 John S. Galbraith History
1960-62 Earl L. Griggs English
1958-60 Foster H. Sherwood Political Science
1956-58 Franklin P. Rolfe English
1954-56 Martin R. Huberty Agriculture
1952-54 Francis E. Blacet Chemistry
1950-52 James A. C. Grant Political Science
1949-50 Carl Epling Botany
1948-49 Gordon S. Watkins Economics
1947-48 E. Lee Kinsey Physics
1946-47 Vern O. Knudsen Physics
1945-46 Franklin P. Rolfe English
1944-45 Albert W. Bellamy Biology
1943-44 William G. Young Chemistry
1942-43 Robert W. Hodgson Agriculture
1941-42 Sigurd Hustvedt English
1940-41 George E. Sherwood Mathematics
1939-40 Kate Gordon Moore Psychology
1938-39 Waldemar Westergard History
1937-38 Bennett M. Allen Biology
1936-37 Sigurd Hustvedt English
1934-36 William C. Morgan Chemistry
1933-34 Ernest C. Moore Education/Philosophy

 

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Senate Staff Directory

Please note: The UCLA Academic Senate Office is fully operational and staff are working remotely. Please contact staff by email.

 

Academic Senate Office

University of California, Los Angeles
3125 Murphy Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1408
Phone: (310) 825-3851
senateoffice@senate.ucla.edu

Organizational Chart

Academic Senate Staff

April de Stefano
April de Stefano
Executive Director
Elizabeth Feller, Associate Director
Elizabeth Feller
Associate Director
Conrad Alumia
Conrad Alumia
Senior Policy Analyst
Tara Hottman
Tara Hottman
Administrative Analyst
Lori Ishimaru
Lori Ishimaru
Senior Policy Analyst
Emily Le
Emily Le
Principal Policy Analyst
Julia Nelsen
Julia Nelsen
Principal Policy Analyst
Marian McKenna Olivas
Marian McKenna Olivas
Principal Policy Analyst
Adriana Rosalez
Adriana Rosalez
Administrative Analyst
Charlotte Rose
Charlotte Rose
Administrative Analyst
Renee Rouzan-Kay
Renee Rouzan-Kay
Senior Policy Analyst
Lilia Valdez
Lilia Valdez
Senior Policy Analyst