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Senate Leadership

 Chair

Andrea Kasko

 

Andrea M. Kasko
Professor 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 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 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).

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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
  • Past Chair Archive
  • 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, Executive Director

April de Stefano

Executive Director​​​

adestefano@senate.ucla.edu

Elizabeth Feller, Associate Director

Elizabeth Feller

Associate Director

efeller@senate.ucla.edu

 

 

 

 

Conrad Alumia

Conrad Alumia

Program Review Coordinator

calumia@senate.ucla.edu

Tara Hottman

Tara Hottman

Administrative Analyst

thottman@senate.ucla.edu

 

Lori Ishimaru

Lori Ishimaru

Senior Policy Analyst

lishimaru@senate.ucla.edu

Emily Le

Emily Le

Principal Policy Analyst

ele@senate.ucla.edu

 

 

 

Julia Nelsen

Julia Nelsen

Principal Policy Analyst

jnelsen@senate.ucla.edu

Marian McKenna Olivas

Marian McKenna Olivas

Principal Policy Analyst

molivas@senate.ucla.edu

 

Adriana Rosalez

Adriana Rosalez

Administrative Analyst

arosalez@senate.ucla.edu

Charlotte Rose

Charlotte Rose

Administrative Analyst

crose@senate.ucla.edu

 

 

Renee Rouzan-Kay

Renee Rouzan-Kay

Senior Policy Analyst

rrouzankay@senate.ucla.edu

Lilia Valdez

Lilia Valdez

Senior Policy Analyst

lvaldez@senate.ucla.edu

 

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