Executive Vice Chancellor

Theodore L. Hullar, 49, executive vice chancellor at the University of California, Riverside, on Friday was named chancellor of the Riverside campus, effective July 1. The university board of regents, holding its monthly meeting on the Irvine campus, approved Hullar to succeed Tomas Rivera, who died last May. "The fit between Ted Hullar's impressive attributes and UC Riverside's momentum for growth and development is exactly right for this time and place," said UC President David Gardner.

In "Congratulations! You're About to Fail!" (Opinion, Jan. 2), Richard Lee Colvin incorrectly gives the impression that California State University students who take remedial education classes are more likely to fail or drop out. The CSU evaluates the progress of first-year freshmen needing remediation and who take remedial English and mathematics. Last year we found that of the regularly admitted, first-time freshmen enrolled in fall 2002 who needed remediation, 82% had gained full proficiency before the second year.

A UC Irvine dean's nomination to be the university's No. 2 administrator has raised fears among some on campus that it signals a shift away from a strong commitment to raising the number of women and minority faculty and students. UCI Chancellor Jack W. Peltason has recommended that L. Dennis Smith, UCI's dean of biological sciences since 1987, be named executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, a spokeswoman for Peltason confirmed Tuesday.

I was very pleased to see front-page coverage of developments in UC Irvine's Interdisciplinary Program in Asian American Studies (May 13). As a faculty member and administrator keenly committed to supporting the growth of Asian American studies at UCI, I applaud your efforts to bring attention to this high-quality program. The article was unclear about several important issues. The program in Asian American studies does indeed hold its own faculty positions, and, like its counterpart programs in Chicano/Latino studies and African American studies, has made a series of important appointments of outstanding scholars over the past several years.

Chang-Lin Tien, currently second in command at UC Irvine, is a leading candidate to become chancellor of UC Berkeley and thus the first Asian-American to head a UC campus, sources said Sunday. Tien, a 53-year-old China native, is an internationally recognized expert in mechanical engineering and a former vice chancellor for research at UC Berkeley. He joined UC Berkeley in 1959 and came to UC Irvine as executive vice chancellor in 1988.

A search committee at UC Irvine has appointed faculty member Spencer Olin, 56, acting executive vice chancellor of the university, beginning March 1. Olin, dean of the School of Humanities since 1992, will begin his new job when Executive Vice Chancellor L. Dennis Smith leaves for his new job as president of the University of Nebraska. "I was functioning very happily as dean of humanities and was indeed surprised," he said.

UC Irvine's No. 2 administrator, cell biologist L. Dennis Smith, was named Friday to serve as acting chancellor beginning Oct. 1. Smith, who has been UCI's executive vice chancellor since the summer of 1990, will take on the added duties when Chancellor Jack W. Peltason leaves to become president of the University of California. The University of California Board of Regents unanimously approved Smith's six-month appointment Friday while they conduct a nationwide search for a successor to Peltason.

A UCLA cancer researcher and immunologist has been selected to be UC Irvine's new executive vice chancellor, the university's second highest position, UCI officials announced Wednesday. Sidney H. Golub, the interim dean and provost of medical sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, will take over the post Sept. 19, UCI spokesman Scott Nelson said. UCI Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening picked Golub from three other candidates for the position.

UC Irvine's longest-standing vice chancellor will leave the campus for UC Berkeley, UCI officials confirmed Wednesday. Horace Mitchell, 50, the vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life, will become Berkeley's new vice chancellor for business and administrative services, officials said. He is currently the third highest ranking administrator at UCI and its top African American official. He becomes the latest of five top administrators to leave UCI in the past 14 months.

A UC Irvine administrator in charge of seeking more research funds for the university has resigned under pressure. Lewis H. Nosanow, 56, vice chancellor for research and dean of graduate studies at UCI since the post was created about 1 1/2 years ago, confirmed Tuesday that he is stepping down Sept. 1. Nosanow also confirmed that he is resigning under pressure, but he declined to elaborate. He said he will return to teaching and become a professor of physics at UCI.

Your Nov. 20 editorial on the allegations of wrongdoing by UC Irvine doctors at the now-closed fertility clinic correctly pointed out the frustrations in trying to get a clear picture of just how many women may have been victimized by these doctors' alleged acts of transferring eggs or embryos without the patients' consent. At UCI, this frustration is compounded by the fact that we still do not have a substantial portion of the patient records kept by these doctors, despite our having sued them for the records earlier this year.

UC Irvine's longest-standing vice chancellor will leave the campus for UC Berkeley, UCI officials confirmed Wednesday. Horace Mitchell, 50, the vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life, will become Berkeley's new vice chancellor for business and administrative services, officials said. He is currently the third highest ranking administrator at UCI and its top African American official. He becomes the latest of five top administrators to leave UCI in the past 14 months.

A UCLA cancer researcher and immunologist has been selected to be UC Irvine's new executive vice chancellor, the university's second highest position, UCI officials announced Wednesday. Sidney H. Golub, the interim dean and provost of medical sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine, will take over the post Sept. 19, UCI spokesman Scott Nelson said. UCI Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening picked Golub from three other candidates for the position.

Four people have made the final cut for the executive vice chancellor post at UC Irvine, the second-highest position at the university, officials said this week. A screening committee has narrowed the list from 150 down to one woman and three men, a UCI spokeswoman said. The candidates will visit the campus this spring to meet publicly with students, faculty and staff.

UC Irvine's second highest official, Executive Vice Chancellor L. Dennis Smith, is Nebraska bound. Regents of the University of Nebraska on Sunday unanimously elected Smith, 55, president of the 52,000-student system. He takes office March 1. "The regents said there were four outstanding finalists, but they made it clear that Dr. Smith is the best fit," said Joe Rowson, director of public affairs for the University of Nebraska.

UC Irvine Vice Chancellor Paul S. Sypherd on Monday was named the No. 2 administrator at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Sypherd, one of the most popular home-grown candidates in the running to be UCI's third chancellor, will become senior vice president for academic affairs and provost of the Arizona university, which with 38,000 students is more than twice as large as UCI. The Tucson campus also ranks 15th among major U.S.

The University of California Board of Regents today approved appointments of four new chancellors for the nine-campus system, including the first women in the history of the institution. Theodore L. Hullar was approved for the University of California at Davis, Robert Bocking Stevens for UC Santa Cruz, and Barbara S. Uehling for UC Santa Barbara. Rosemary Schmidt Jenkins Schraer, executive vice chancellor at UC Riverside, was approved to succeed Hullar as chancellor there.

UC Irvine's No. 2 administrator, cell biologist L. Dennis Smith, was named Friday to serve as acting chancellor beginning Oct. 1. Smith, who has been UCI's executive vice chancellor since the summer of 1990, will take on the added duties when Chancellor Jack W. Peltason leaves to become president of the University of California. The University of California Board of Regents unanimously approved Smith's six-month appointment Friday while they conduct a nationwide search for a successor to Peltason.