Napolitano became president of the university in 2013 after four years as President Obama's secretary of homeland security. She said she was not stepping down for health reasons, saying she was “completely clear” of cancer following treatment in 2016 and 2017.“Surveygate was a really definitive moment,” said Robert May, immediate past head of the UC Academic Senate. Experts expect a jump in preventable diseases after the pandemic eases.Assemblyman Phil Ting said there is support for providing up to $600 weekly to jobless CaliforniansVeterinarians say animal activist Marc Ching persuaded their clients to abandon a prescribed treatment regimen in favor of products he sells at his for-profit pet food store.You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.“Rio de Los Angeles,” a new augmented reality app, brings you the story of the river from pre-history to the presentThe 2020 Emmy nominations are being announced Tuesday morning by host Leslie Jones, alongside presenters Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany.Regent Sherry Lansing, who headed the search committee that recruited Napolitano, said the president led the system with “great integrity, vision and fairness” and that it was far better off today then when she took the helm in 2013. Lansing, who heads the UC regents’ health services committee, said Napolitano’s focused attention on UC medical centers had helped them become more profitable and accessible to underserved Angelenos.UC Board of Regents Chairman John A. Pérez said he would appoint members of a search committee in coming days and that it would be a “consultative process” with input from students, faculty and staff from all 10 campuses about what qualities they desire in the next UC president. The president of the University of California system, Janet Napolitano, announced Wednesday that she would step down from her role effective Aug. 1, 2020.
Letter to the UC community from President Janet Napolitano. A Seattle native, she graduated from USC in journalism and in East Asian languages and culture.Lucy Reyes worked at Mitla Cafe, the oldest Mexican restaurant in the Inland Empire, for 68 of its 83 years.The move comes amid increased enforcement against businesses failing to comply with coronavirus rules.“She made clear that the University of California was a long-term treasure in the state and underfunding it would jeopardize the university and the state,” he said.Rigel Robinson, a Berkeley City Council member who was a student activist at UC Berkeley during Napolitano’s tenure, said her unprecedented outreach to students changed his mind about her.“What I saw over time was the transition to a much more effective leadership model by the office of the president,” said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block.Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions.The UC chief plans to take a yearlong sabbatical, then join the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. She leads a university system of 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program.
Regent George Kieffer, who shepherded UC through the audit crises as Board of Regents chair, said history will show an “extraordinary record of achievement” by Napolitano as she led efforts to stabilize UC finances and launched new initiatives on climate change, protections for immigrant students, reforms of sexual misconduct policies and expansion of student access and diversity.May and others said Napolitano took the lessons of the scandal to heart and became far more collaborative. Students protested her record as “deporter in chief” under Obama.
Prior to taking the UC helm, Napolitano served as Arizona attorney general, then governor from 2003 to 2009 and U.S. “Sometimes it was very tough.
He said she has grown to understand the UC’s unique system of shared governance with faculty—which he said was lacking when she agreed with then-Gov. Since joining the Times in 1989, she has covered immigration, ethnic communities, religion, Pacific Rim business and served as Tokyo correspondent and bureau chief. Kim Wilcox Chancellor, UC Riverside.
“This is an extraordinary loss.”In an interview Wednesday, Napolitano said the fallout over the state audits were the most challenging moments of her tenure.UC sources said Napolitano was not forced out, although some of the regents were known to have desired a leadership change.