Miami President Named as Next U.C.L.A. Chancellor
Julio Frenk, a Mexican public health expert who has led the University of Miami since 2015, will take over the elite Los Angeles school that has been rocked by protests this spring. Mexican public health expert, Julio Frenk, has been named as the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles. He will succeed Gene Block, who will step down at the end of July following his 17-year tenure. Frenk will be the first person of color to lead U.C.L.A. and will oversee the elite public institution, which is dealing with protests and a violent attack on student demonstrators. He was born in Mexico City and served as Mexico's secretary of health from 2002 to 2006. He also served as the dean of Harvard's School of Public Health before taking over at the university of Miami.
Publié : il y a 10 mois par Billy Witz, Jill Cowan dans Health
Julio Frenk, a Mexican public health expert who has led the University of Miami since 2015, was named on Wednesday as the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles. He will oversee an elite public institution still reeling from intense protests and a violent attack on student demonstrators that occurred this spring.
Dr. Frenk will become the first person of color to lead U.C.L.A., whose student body is one of American higher education’s most diverse. He will succeed Gene Block, who will step down at the end of July. Dr. Block’s 17-year tenure saw the university enhance its academic reputation by attracting more research dollars and top-notch students, but it ended with outcry over his administration’s response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Dr. Frenk, 70, was born in Mexico City — his grandparents had fled Germany in the 1930s — and was Mexico’s secretary of health from 2002 to 2006. Soon after, he became the dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health; he left that post in 2015 to take over at the University of Miami.
Every previous chancellor of U.C.L.A has been a white male, a record that stood in contrast to the school’s rich history of racial and ethnic diversity. The city’s first Black mayor, Tom Bradley, was an alumnus, as were the athletic and civil rights icons Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe.
Les sujets: Academia, Social-ESG