The University of California Board of Regents today named Dr. Julio Frenk to be the new UCLA chancellor. Frenk had been president of the University of Miami since 2015, where he led an ambitious fund raising drive that netted the school about $2.5 billion dollars. Prior to that, Frenk – ...
Further into the hearing, lawmakers grilled him on how he's handled specific allegations of antisemitism, from a Jewish student being blocked from a campus pathway to a professor being harassed after supporting Israel in a counter-protest. He also faced criticism from lawmakers who said he ...
Understanding how to cope with Southern California’s ethnic and political complexity will be the single biggest challenge for a chancellor from the East Coast, said Bill Ouchi, professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. “In the East Coast, especially Boston, there is only one person ...