On January 8, 2023, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt announced that UCLA would enter a new period of change and rebuild after last year’s contract negotiations between the University of California and UAW-represented academic workers.
To help the university chart a course in this new environment UCLA has launched three new committees:
- The Joint Administrative and Academic Senate Task Force on the Future of Graduate Education
Led by Susan Ettner, Dean of the Division of Graduate Education; and James Bisley, Chair of the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council
This committee will address issues such as: balancing the allocation of resources for UCLA's outstanding graduate programs and other campus needs, managing graduate student support in light of the new contract agreements, determining the right size of graduate programs and evaluating how these changes might impact UCLA's work as a top public research institution. - The Committee to Discuss Impacts of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) on the Research Enterprise
Chair of Committee Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto
Given the requirements of existing grants, there will be a need to find alternative funding sources to cover costs not anticipated in original proposals. This committee will examine potential short- and long-term research funding opportunities, how funding will be allocated, the structure of research support roles and potential options for advocacy at the federal level. - The Healthy Climate Committee
Led by Wendelin Slusser, Associate Vice Provost for the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA; Anna Spain Bradley, Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI); Linda Clowers, Director of Research and Bruin Engagement for EDI; and Lubbe Levin, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Human Resources
This committee aims to better understand how the experience of the recent labor dispute affected Bruins and identify what is needed to move forward together.
All these groups will seek community input as they make their recommendations. For further information, please refer to the BruinPost.
