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Carolynne Hogg doesn’t have time to read for pleasure these
days. Between her Herculean efforts to ensure that the Council of Academic
Personnel runs smoothly on the one hand, and raising her eight year old son
together with her husband, on the other, she stays quite busy. “My son’s
hobbies tend to become my own,” she remarks. From baseball games to trips to
the museum to walking the family schnauzer, Gulliver, Carolynne keeps a full
plate.
“CAP processes anywhere from 650-700 dossiers each year.
The fourteen faculty members of CAP work very diligently to maintain the
University’s high standards and equity across the campus,” Carolynne said.
Chief among her responsibilities is to ensure that each dossier is entirely in
order before her committee members review them and to ensure that the pipeline
of dossiers flowing into and out of CAP never jams. “There is sometimes a
misconception that dossiers leave departments and land in a black hole, where
the laws of time and space are suspended. That simply isn’t the case. CAP has
a systematic approach to ensure a timely response.”
Carolynne has served on a task force to develop tracking
software that will make uniform the academic personnel process. It will also
enable departments to track the progress of a dossier through the
University—from the department to the dean, from the dean to CAP, and from CAP
to the Vice Chancellor of Academic Personnel. “Hopefully this new software will
demystify the process for everyone,” Carolynne said.
Carolynne’s career in academe started at the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland, where she worked for eight years. But before coming to
UCLA she also worked as a boutique manager and a social worker. She eventually
ended up at UCLA and in the Academic Senate, where she is the Principal Policy
Analyst staffing CAP. UCLA is lucky to have her.
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