Chancellor Block shared this message to the Bruin Community. Dear Colleagues: UCLA is committed to maintaining a safe and secure learning and working environment. As UC employees, we all share an individual responsibility to complete mandatory training which keeps us aware and reminded of policies and guidance that help to protect our campus community. I…
Chancellor Block and EVCP Hunt shared the following message to the Bruin Community. Dear Colleagues: Following a national search process, Robert Swerdlow has been appointed vice chancellor for legal affairs and chief campus counsel, effective August 1, 2024. This position reports jointly to the chancellor and executive vice chancellor and provost at UCLA and to…
Chancellor Block shared this message to the Bruin Community. Dear Bruin Community: As was announced last week, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt — a dedicated campus leader for more than two decades — will serve as UCLA’s interim chancellor from August 1, 2024 until Jan. 1, 2025, at which point Julio Frenk will…
Chancellor Block shared the following message with the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: As the 2023–24 academic year draws to a close, students prepare for final exams and we wrap up planning for our commencement ceremonies, I wanted to pause to express my profound gratitude for the UCLA community’s resilience and dedication over the…
Chancellor Block and EVCP Hunt shared the following message to the Bruin Community. Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce that salary increases in FY 2024–25 are planned for all eligible, non-represented, policy-covered staff employees and academic appointees. Our staff and faculty are the ones who help carry out UCLA’s important public mission of teaching,…
Chancellor Block shared the following message with the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: Later today I will be addressing the United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce in a hearing focused on the troubling rise of antisemitism on college campuses. But before I speak to that committee, I wanted our…
Chancellor Block shared the following message with the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: The events of the past several weeks have fractured both our sense of community and our sense of security. They have bred anger and mistrust between Bruins, and they have led to marked frustration with how we have administered campus safety…
Chancellor Block shared the following message with the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: Last Tuesday night, a group of instigators came to Royce Quad and violently attacked students, faculty and staff members who were encamped to advocate for Palestinian rights. This was a truly despicable act, and in my message to the campus the…
Chancellor Block shared the following message with the UCLA campus community. Dear Bruin Community: Protecting the safety of our community underpins everything we do at UCLA. Our students, faculty and staff can only learn, work and thrive in an environment where they feel secure. In the past week, our campus has been shaken by events…
Chancellor Block shared the following message with the Bruin community. Dear Bruin Community: Our community is in deep pain. We are reeling from days of violence and division. And we hope with all our hearts that we can return to a place where our students, faculty and staff feel safe and, one day, connected again….