Senate Service
University Committee on Planning and Budget (UCPB) Chair (2024-2025) Vice Chair (2023-24) member (2020-21) and alternate (2019-20); Academic Council ex officio (2024-present); Academic Planning Council ex officio (2024-present); APC Workgroup on Systemwide Academic Calendar member (2024-present); Academic Council special Committee on Transfer Issues (ACSCOTI) member (2023-24); Assembly of the Academic Senate ex officio (2024-present) member (2022-24); Council on Planning and Budget (CPB) Chair (2020-21) member (2018-2022); Budget Model Working Group Co-Chair (2020-22) member (2019-20); Executive Board ex officio (2020-21); Legislative Assembly ex officio (2020-21); UCLA Committee on Committees (2009-2010).
Administrative Service
Infectious Disease Management Team (Covid Response) Co-Chair (2022-23); Department of Communication Studies Chair (2010-2016); Department of Communication Studies Vice Chair (2009-10); various departmental committees including faculty hiring, faculty promotion and tenure review, curriculum development, and undergraduate admissions.
Service to the University
Startup UCLA Co-Founder and Faculty Advisor (2010-present); UCLA Irv Drasnin and Xiaoyan Zhao Drasnin Communication Archive Director (2024-present); Communication Studies News Archive Digitization Project Director (2015-present); ASUCLA Communications Board member, (2016-2022); EVCP select Committee on Summer Sessions member (2020-2021); Masters in Social Science (MaSS) Advisory Committee (2016-19); Dean of Social Sciences Search Committee (2017); UC Davis Department of Communication external reviewer (2017); UCLA Mobile Steering Committee (2011-2016); UCLA College Commencement Speaker Committee (2011-2015); Task Force to Review UCLA-TV (2010); UCLA Faculty Committee on Educational Technology (2005-2008).
Vice Chair
Catherine Sugar
Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
csugar@senate.ucla.edu
UC Systemwide Senate Service
Chair, University Committee on Educational Policy (UCEP), 2025-2026. Member, Academic Council (Senate Executive Leadership Group), 2025-2026. Member, Academic Planning Council (APC; Senate/UC Office of the President), 2025-2026. Member, Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates (ICAS: Joint UC/CSU/CCC Senate Leadership Committee), 2025-2026. Member, Joint Academic Senate-Administration Task Force on Performance of Undergraduate Degree Programs (PUDP; Senate/UCOP), 2025-2026. Member, Assembly of the Academic Senate, 2025-2026. Member, California General Education Transfer Curriculum (CalGETC) Standards Subcommittee of the Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates (Joint UC/CSU/CCC Committee), 2024-2026. Vice Chair, University Committee on Educational Policy, 2024-2025. Member, Graduate Education and Employment Advisory Committee (Senate/UCOP Ad Hoc Committee), 2024-2025. Member, University Committee on Educational Policy, 2023-2024.
UCLA Divisional Senate Campus Level Service
Member, Senate Executive Board, 2023-2026 (First as UgC Chair, then in an at-large seat). Chair, Undergraduate Council (UGC), 2023-2024. Member, Legislative Assembly, 2023-2026. Member, Campus Response to the Climate Change Crisis Committee (Executive Board Special Committee), 2024-2025. Member, UCLA Infectious Disease Management Team, 2023-2024. Member, Undergraduate Council, 2020-2023. Member, Administrative Committee of the Undergraduate Council, 2021-2023. Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee of the Undergraduate Council, 2021-2023; Member 2020-2021.
UCLA Divisional Senate School Level Service
Chair, Faculty Executive Committee (FEC; UCLA Fielding School of Public Health), 2020-2022. Member, Committee of FEC Chairs, 2020-2022. Member, Steering Committee for the Undergraduate Public Health Major (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; replaces Undergraduate Committee),2023-2026. Interim Chair, Undergraduate Committee (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health FEC Standing Committee), 2023. Member, COVID 19 Taskforce (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Special Committee), 2020-2022. Member, Sustainability Committee (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health FEC Standing Committee), 2021-2022. Chair, Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee (EPCC; UCLA Fielding School of Public Health FEC Standing Committee), 2015-2017 and 2018-2020; Member 2014-2015. Member, Five-Year Review Committee for the Dean of the School of Public Health, 2017-2018. Chair, Student Affairs Committee (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health FEC Standing Committee), 2009-2010, Spring 2013; Member 2008-2009.
Immediate Past Chair
Megan McEvoy
Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics; Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
mmcevoy@senate.ucla.edu
Senate Service
Undergraduate Council (Chair 2020-2021, Member 2018-2020, ex officio 2021-2022), Undergraduate Council Student Welfare Committee (2018-2019), Undergraduate Council Curriculum Committee (co-Chair 2019-2021), University Committee on Educational Policy (UCEP) (2021-2021), University Committee on Preparatory Education (UCOPE) (2020-2021), Legislative Assembly (ex officio 2020-2021), Executive Board (2020-2021).
Administrative Service
Equity Advisor, Division of Life Sciences (2022-2024 (interim 2022-2023)), Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, Division of Life Sciences (2021-June 2024), Vice Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics (2021-2022), Molecular Biology Institute Membership Committee (Chair 2020-present), various departmental and divisional committees including faculty hiring, faculty promotion and tenure review, and advisory boards.
Service to the University
COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force (co-Chair 2021-2022), COVID-19 Response and Recovery Task Force, Educational Working Group (2020-2021), UCLA Summer Sessions Committee (2020-2021), UCLA Enrollment Planning Committee (2020-2021), Joint Task Force on the Academic Mission of UCLA Campus Expansion (2023), Maximizing Access to Research Careers Program (Director 2016-present), Center for Opportunities to Maximize Participation, Access, and Student Success (co-Director 2016-present), Diversity Advisory Committee, Division of Life Sciences (2016-2024), Regents Scholar Society Faculty Mentor (2017-2021).
Chair Groeling's Statement AY2026-27
UCLA has risen to the top ranks of research universities, being recognized repeatedly as America’s #1 public university. However, multiple crises have shown that our great accomplishments are distressingly fragile. At the very moment UCLA has achieved our greatest success and recognition, we are increasingly under financial and political siege. We already feel those effects as we grapple not only with budget cuts, hiring freezes, and threats to our research and educational missions, but also with hostile attempts to alter the character of our institution. As we confronts these threats, it is vital that informed and forceful faculty voices help steer UCLA’s future. My Senate service chairing both the campus and systemwide planning and budget committees has given me a deeper knowledge of how budgets work in practice. Chairing my Department for several years (including during the worst of the Great Recession) provided a pragmatic illustration of how policy changes and budget cuts hit home. As a recipient of federal, institutional, and private grants, I understand how vital they are to our research excellence. As a 30+ year member of the UC community, I have witnessed the irreplaceable value of UCLA in people’s lives and will strive to protect it.
| Parliamentarian | Georgia Kernell, Associate Professor of Communication |
|---|---|
| Secretary | Frances Olsen, Professor of Law |
Past Chairs
| Academic Year | Senate Chair | Department |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Megan McEvoy | Institute for Society and Genetics; Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics |
| 2024-25 | Kathy Bawn | Political Science |
| 2023-24 | Andrea Kasko | Bioengineering |
| 2022 (Mar)-23 | Jessica Cattelino | Anthropology |
| 2021-22 (Feb) | Jody Kreiman | Head and Neck Surgery / Linguistics |
| 2020-21 | Shane White | Dentistry |
| Academic Year | Senate Chair | Department |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Megan McEvoy | Institute for Society and Genetics; Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics |
| 2024-25 | Kathy Bawn | Political Science |
| 2023-24 | Andrea Kasko | Bioengineering |
| 2022 (Mar)-23 | Jessica Cattelino | Anthropology |
| 2021-22 (Feb) | Jody Kreiman | Head and Neck Surgery / Linguistics |
| 2020-21 | Shane White | Dentistry |
| 2019-20 | Michael Meranze | History |
| 2018-19 | Joseph Bristow | English |
| 2017-18 | Sandra Graham | Education |
| 2016-17 | Susan Cochran | Public Health - Epidemiology |
| 2015-16 | Leo Estrada | Public Affairs/Urban Planning |
| 2014-15 | Joel Aberbach | Political Science |
| 2013-14 | Jan Reiff | History & Statistics |
| 2012-13 | Linda Sarna | Nursing |
| 2011-12 | Andrew Leuchter | Psychiatry |
| 2010-11 | Ann Karagozian | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering |
| 2009-10 | Robin L. Garrell | Chemistry |
| 2008-09 | Michael Goldstein | Public-Community Health |
| 2007-08 | Elizabeth Ligon Bjork | Cognitive Psychology |
| 2006-07 | Vivek Shetty | Dentistry - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery |
| 2005-06 | Adrienne Lavine | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering |
| 2004-05 | Kathleen Komar | Comparative Literature |
| 2003-04 | Clifford Brunk | Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
| 2002-03 | Duncan Lindsey | Social Welfare |
| 2001-02 | John Edmond | Biological Chemistry |
| 2000-01 | Stephen C. Yeazell | Law |
| 1999-00 | Donna L. Vredevoe | Nursing |
| 1998-99 | Vickie Mays | Psychology |
| 1997-98 | Chand Viswanathan | Electrical Engineering |
| 1996-97 | Aimée Dorr | Education |
| 1995-96 | Charles Lewis | Medicine |
| 1994-95 | Judith L. Smith | Physiological Science |
| 1993-94 | Carole Goldberg-Ambrose | Law |
| 1992-93 | Archie Kleingartner | Management |
| 1991-92 | Seymour Feshbach | Psychology |
| 1990-91 | David Kaplan | Philosophy |
| 1989-90 | Sidney Roberts | Biological Chemistry |
| 1988-89 | Charles Berst | English |
| 1987-88 | Sydney Finegold | Medicine |
| 1986-87 | David Chapman | Biology |
| 1985-86 | Fred Massarick | Management |
| 1984-85 | William Dignam | Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| 1983-84 | Kenneth Trueblood | Chemistry |
| 1982-83 | Murray Schwartz | Law |
| 1981-82 | Samuel Aroni | Architecture & Urban Planning |
| 1980-81 | Daniel Kivelson | Chemistry |
| 1979-80 | David S. Maxwell | Anatomy |
| 1978-79 | A. Theodore Forrester | Engineering/Physics |
| 1977-78 | Florence Ridley | English |
| 1976-77 | Raymond Orbach | Physics |
| 1975-76 | Elwood Buffa | Management |
| 1974-75 | Moses Greenfield | Radiology |
| 1973-74 | David Wilson | Political Science |
| 1972-73 | George Abell | Astronomy |
| 1970-71 | Benjamin Aaron | Law |
| 1968-69 | Lowell Paige | Mathematics |
| 1966-68 | Thomas L. Jacobs | Chemistry |
| 1964-66 | Robert E. Holzer | Geophysics |
| 1962-64 | John S. Galbraith | History |
| 1960-62 | Earl L. Griggs | English |
| 1958-60 | Foster H. Sherwood | Political Science |
| 1956-58 | Franklin P. Rolfe | English |
| 1954-56 | Martin R. Huberty | Agriculture |
| 1952-54 | Francis E. Blacet | Chemistry |
| 1950-52 | James A. C. Grant | Political Science |
| 1949-50 | Carl Epling | Botany |
| 1948-49 | Gordon S. Watkins | Economics |
| 1947-48 | E. Lee Kinsey | Physics |
| 1946-47 | Vern O. Knudsen | Physics |
| 1945-46 | Franklin P. Rolfe | English |
| 1944-45 | Albert W. Bellamy | Biology |
| 1943-44 | William G. Young | Chemistry |
| 1942-43 | Robert W. Hodgson | Agriculture |
| 1941-42 | Sigurd Hustvedt | English |
| 1940-41 | George E. Sherwood | Mathematics |
| 1939-40 | Kate Gordon Moore | Psychology |
| 1938-39 | Waldemar Westergard | History |
| 1937-38 | Bennett M. Allen | Biology |
| 1936-37 | Sigurd Hustvedt | English |
| 1934-36 | William C. Morgan | Chemistry |
| 1933-34 | Ernest C. Moore | Education/Philosophy |
Senate Staff Directory
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