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.
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).
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 |
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Secretary |
Linda Sarna, Professor of Nursing |
Elections Commissioner |
Joseph Watson, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
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 |
Senate Staff Directory
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Academic Senate Office
University of California, Los Angeles
3125 Murphy Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1408
Phone: (310) 825-3851
senateoffice@senate.ucla.edu