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My
work in academic administration gives me an opportunity to influence policy
and practice at a level higher than my academic department. Starting in the
fall 2009, I served on the campus' Council on
Planning and Budget until 2012 and as the Academic Senate's Elections
Commissioner from Fall 2010 to Spring 2013. Between
2002 and 2007, I served a five-year term as Associate Dean in UCLA's Graduate
Division. I worked with 1400 post-doctoral and visiting scholars and played a
key role in implementing the human resources policies for postdoctoral and
visiting scholars; note, in particular, that I served as the grievance
officer under UCOP's APM 390.
At UCLA, we have an active PSA, called the UCLA Society of Postdoctoral Scholars.
At the national level, I continued to serve on the National Postdoctoral Association's
International Postdoc Committee through 2007 and am especially interested in visa
issues. Among my skill set are brainstorming activities, active
listening, and conflict resolution. Vice
Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan said of my five-year service that I
"became our resident expert on campus practices related to dissertation
and copyright issues." In Graduate Division, I worked closely with Graduate
Council and its Committee on Degree Programs to ensure the quality of
more than 40 graduate programs by hoping to revise the signature page and
drafting a charge letter to newly appointed dissertation committees. My
academic areas of responsibility included the Social and Life Sciences in the
College, Academic Health Sciences in Medicine, Oral Biology in Dentistry, the
ACCESS program, and the Schools of Public Affairs, Anderson Graduate School
of Management, as well as Theater, Film, and Television. I believe that good
communication is essential in mentoring graduate students and postdocs; in
particular, I wish that PIs and postdocs would make explicit their
understandings regarding authorship of scientific papers at the outset of
their relationships. It would save a lot of agony later on. I also had a
strong interest in improving the quality of our international students
inbound as well as exchanges; hence, I have worked to increase awareness of
the F-1 and J-1 visa situation, to raise the TOEFL standard on campus as well
as to work closely with our DAAD, Fulbright,
and Luce scholars. In
recognition by being "graduate student friendly," I received the
UCLA Graduate Students Association's James LuValle Award
for distinguished service on 22 May 2007. In
the past, I have served on UCLA's Privilege
and Tenure Committee, which works to protect faculty rights
in matters of scientific misconduct, harassment, and promotion decisions; I
served as its chair from 2000 through the 2002 academic year working with Dr.
Norman Abrams and then Dr. Donna L. Vredevoe, both Vice Chancellors for
Academic Personnel, respectively. This position also gave me the chance to
serve on the UC systemwide Privilege
and Tenure committee. Prior to that, I also have served on UCLA's
Graduate Council, a faculty committee charged by the Academic Senate with
ensuring high quality graduate education in the university's 90 graduate
programs--during the 1995/96 academic year, I served as its chair.
Consecutively, I also served on the University of California's systemwide Coordinating
Committee for Graduate Affairs, where I first discovered how much we
are part of a larger system. PRESENTATIONS
AND PUBLICATIONS "The Bologna
Process, Advancing Transatlantic Collaboration in a Changing Higher
Education Landscape:” "Building
Value Addedness into the Academic Dissertation: A Systems Analysis
Approach," ETD
2007 Conference, Uppsala, Sweden,
16 June 2007. "The EU's 'Bologna Process' Compliant Degrees,"
(2007) which summarizes the main points in the process "An ABC
Model of Attrition", (2005) my affective, behavioral, and
cognitive model of why graduate students do not complete "Automation
of Higher Education Administration: A Case Study of UCLA's Online
Environment," In Informatsionnye Tekhnologii v Upravlenii i Uchebnom
Protsesse Vuza; Materiali 4-i Vcepossiickoi Ochno-zaochnoi-prakticheskoi
Konferenstii (15-17 October 2003), edited by A. F. Kovalevskii
(Vladivostok: Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service Press,
2004), p. 248-251. "Graduate
Division/Graduate Council SPEAK," academic administrative jargon
at UCLA (2017) "How
to be a Good Mentor" (2005) "International
Graduate Students: Conflicts between Security and Science in the issuing of
visas" (2005) "Letters
of Recommendations: A Conceptual Analysis of the Ingredients for Success in
Graduate Studies" (2005) "Measures of Quality in Graduate Education",
(2003) twelve concepts which need to be operationalized "Mentoring:
Good Communication Between PIs and Postdoctoral Scholars" (2006) “Graduate Admissions Decisions: How to Get into the
Graduate School of Your Choice” (2003) Updated: 11 May
2017.
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