Last Minute

This afternoon, the UCLA Legislative Assembly will meet and its agenda includes a resolution regarding a budget "deficit" and issues of faculty shared governance and access budget information.* There appears to have been a last-minute, preemptive strike by Murphy Hall yesterday:

From the Bruin: UCLA is launching a new leadership coalition to manage the university’s budgetary shortfall amid state and federal funding cuts, Chancellor Julio Frenk announced in a Wednesday campuswide email. Frenk, who will chair the Executive Budget Action Group, said in the email that the group’s creation was prompted by “structural budget deficits, federal and state funding uncertainties, and rising costs,” which challenge the university’s academic mission. The budget action group will create guidelines for future campus financial decisions, investigate specific areas for improvement in its investments and emphasize transparency in all of its budgetary decisions, Frenk said in the email...

Frenk outlined commitments for himself as chair in the email, which included an emphasis on shared governance with faculty. Megan McEvoy, the chair of the Academic Senate, will serve as a faculty representative in the group, he said in the email. McEvoy said in an emailed statement that Darnell Hunt, UCLA’s executive vice chancellor and provost, told the Academic Senate about the group and announced her role as chair at a meeting last week. She added that the Academic Senate was not involved in the group’s creation and hopes Frenk and Hunt will engage in “meaningful shared governance.”

“I don’t know my role or how the group will function yet,” McEvoy said in the statement. “The Senate has repeatedly advocated for meaningful shared governance where the Senate, as an institution, consults on budgetary matters primarily through the Council on Planning and Budget.” ...

Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2025/11/12/julio-frenk-announces-executive-budget-action-group-to-manage-uclas-monetary-concerns.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/11/rumors.html.