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Senate Leadership
Chair
Megan McEvoy
Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics; Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
mmcevoy@senate.ucla.edu
(310) 825-3852
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
University Committee on Planning and Budget (UCPB) Chair (2024-2025) Vice Chair (2023-24) member (2020-21) and alternate (2019-20); Academic Council ex officio (2024-present); Academic Planning Council ex officio (2024-present); APC Workgroup on Systemwide Academic Calendar member (2024-present); Academic Council special Committee on Transfer Issues (ACSCOTI) member (2023-24); Assembly of the Academic Senate ex officio (2024-present) member (2022-24); Council on Planning and Budget (CPB) Chair (2020-21) member (2018-2022); Budget Model Working Group Co-Chair (2020-22) member (2019-20); Executive Board ex officio (2020-21); Legislative Assembly ex officio (2020-21); UCLA Committee on Committees (2009-2010).
Administrative Service
Infectious Disease Management Team (Covid Response) Co-Chair (2022-23); Department of Communication Studies Chair (2010-2016); Department of Communication Studies Vice Chair (2009-10); various departmental committees including faculty hiring, faculty promotion and tenure review, curriculum development, and undergraduate admissions.
Service to the University
Startup UCLA Co-Founder and Faculty Advisor (2010-present); UCLA Irv Drasnin and Xiaoyan Zhao Drasnin Communication Archive Director (2024-present); Communication Studies News Archive Digitization Project Director (2015-present); ASUCLA Communications Board member, (2016-2022); EVCP select Committee on Summer Sessions member (2020-2021); Masters in Social Science (MaSS) Advisory Committee (2016-19); Dean of Social Sciences Search Committee (2017); UC Davis Department of Communication external reviewer (2017); UCLA Mobile Steering Committee (2011-2016); UCLA College Commencement Speaker Committee (2011-2015); Task Force to Review UCLA-TV (2010); UCLA Faculty Committee on Educational Technology (2005-2008).
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).
Chair McEvoy's Statement AY2025-26
In the last few years, UCLA and other institutions of higher education have faced a number of important matters that have had dramatic impacts on our operations, including funding for graduate students, demands for remote teaching, racial and political tensions, and challenges to academic freedom. I’ve been in leadership roles in the Senate and administration during these times that have given me a broad perspective on these issues, and an understanding of how to both lead effectively and build partnerships to realize changes. As we operate on the principles of shared governance, it is crucial that faculty voices are heard to ensure the quality of our educational mission, research, service and community engagement.
UCLA’s tradition of a strong Academic Senate and faculty engagement has contributed to our standing as a top ranked university and a model for higher education nationwide. With the budgetary, political, and other challenges we will face going forward, it is more important than ever that we both bring diverse views to the table and that we share in decision-making at our own institution as well as systemwide.
| Parliamentarian | Georgia Kernell, Associate Professor of Communication |
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| Secretary | Frances Olsen, Professor of Law |
Past Chairs
| 2024-25 | Kathy Bawn | Political Science |
| 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 |
| 2024-25 | Kathy Bawn | Political Science |
| 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 |
| 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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