UC Board of Regents appoints University of Miami president as UCLA's new chancellor
University of Miami President Julio will be the first Latino to lead the university and will begin in January 2025. The University of California Board of Regents has appointed University of Miami President Julio Frenk as its new chancellor for UCLA, replacing Gene Block who is set to retire at the end of July. Frenk will be the first Latino to lead the university and will begin in 2025. Block has faced criticism for his handling of the pro-Palestine campus encampment and other protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war. During his tenure, he increased enrollment by 24 percent and boosted UCLA's ranking as the No. 1 public university for six years running. After stepping down, Block plans to continue his research as a member of the UCLA faculty.
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The University of California Board of Regents appointed a new chancellor for UCLA Wednesday, naming University of Miami President Julio Frenk to the position.
UCLA's current chancellor, Gene Block, is set to retire at the end of July after serving as leader of the university since 2007.
Frenk will be the first Latino to lead the university and will begin in January 2025. UCLA Provost Darnell Hunt will serve as interim chancellor until then.
Block recently came under fire for his handling of the pro-Palestine campus encampment, and other protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
On May 2, police arrested more than 200 people on campus, a day after violence erupted as people inside the encampment were attacked by counter-demonstrators.
Fighting continued for several hours before police stepped in. Block was criticized for not calling in police sooner.
Twenty-five arrests were made Monday when police and pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with another protest on campus.
"At UCLA, even in dark times there is still so, so much light," Block wrote in a message to the UCLA community last week. He noted that the war in Gaza has "sown division and strife here on campus," leading to instances of "outright violence."
"The war's impact on our campus reached a crescendo in the last six weeks, and this period now looms large in UCLA's collective consciousness," Block wrote.
He said that serving as UCLA's chancellor had been the greatest honor of his professional life.
During hiss tenure, Block increased enrollment by 24 percent, led the university through the pandemic and the boosted UCLA's ranking as the No. 1 public university for six years running, up from No. 4 when he joined the university.
Block has praised the university's research skills that delivered five Nobel Prizes in 10 years, and nearly doubled external annual research funding, according to UCLA.
Last year, the university launched UCLA South Bay on 35.5 acres on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and UCLA Downtown, a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles.
After stepping down, Block will remain a member of the UCLA faculty.
He intends to return to the lab and continue his research as a member of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology at the UCLA College.
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