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Senate Leadership
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).
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Megan McEvoy
Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics; Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
mmcevoy@senate.ucla.edu
Senate Service
Undergraduate Council (Chair 2020-2021, Member 2018-2020, ex officio 2021-2022), Undergraduate Council Student Welfare Committee (2018-2019), Undergraduate Council Curriculum Committee (co-Chair 2019-2021), University Committee on Educational Policy (UCEP) (2021-2021), University Committee on Preparatory Education (UCOPE) (2020-2021), Legislative Assembly (ex officio 2020-2021), Executive Board (2020-2021).
Administrative Service
Equity Advisor, Division of Life Sciences (2022-2024 (interim 2022-2023)), Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, Division of Life Sciences (2021-June 2024), Vice Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics (2021-2022), Molecular Biology Institute Membership Committee (Chair 2020-present), various departmental and divisional committees including faculty hiring, faculty promotion and tenure review, and advisory boards.
Service to the University
COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force (co-Chair 2021-2022), COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force, Educational Working Group (2020-2021), UCLA Summer Sessions Committee (2020-2021), UCLA Enrollment Planning Committee (2020-2021), Joint Task Force on the Academic Mission of UCLA Campus Expansion (2023), Maximizing Access to Research Careers Program (Director 2016-present), Center for Opportunities to Maximize Participation, Access, and Student Success (co-Director 2016-present), Diversity Advisory Committee, Division of Life Sciences (2016-2024), Regents Scholar Society Faculty Mentor (2017-2021).
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).
Chair Bawn's Statement AY2024-25
Like other top-tier research universities, UCLA finds itself rethinking the basics of university research, teaching, and shared governance. The new UAW contracts bring not only daunting budgetary challenges, but also hard questions about graduate training and mentoring. Other questions raised by the pandemic, regarding online education and remote work, are far from settled. Academic priorities must drive our responses to every issue we face. Effective shared governance ensures that campus decisions reflect academic values rather than administrative expediency. Chairing Undergraduate Council over the past two turbulent years, serving on many other Senate committees, and representing UCLA on systemwide bodies, I have leaned hard into Academic Senate service, seeking to channel and amplify faculty voices in campus decision-making. My understanding of UCLA's academic mission is grounded in years of leadership in a large and diverse College department. Senate service, especially in recent years, has broadened my perspective to appreciate issues faced by smaller and newer units across the College and the Schools, giving me a pragmatic understanding of stakes and tradeoffs. I would be honored to continue listening to, learning from, and working with my faculty colleagues as we strive to maintain UCLA as a beacon of inclusive excellence.
| Parliamentarian | Georgia Kernell, Associate Professor of Communication |
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| Secretary | Linda Sarna, Professor of Nursing |
| Elections Commissioner | Joseph Watson, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
Past Chairs
| 2023-24 | Andrea Kasko | Bioengineering |
| 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 |
| 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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