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VOL. 24. NO.2 SEPTEMBER 23, 2003

CAMPUS BRIEFS

A NEW POST

Michael Karpf, UCLA’s associate vice chancellor of hospital systems and chief executive officer of the medical center, has accepted the post of executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He will assume his new position Nov. 1. “Dr. Karpf has provided leadership for both the UCLA Medical Center and the broader community since 1995,” said Gerald S. Levey, vice chancellor of medical sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine. “He integrated the UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, the Santa Monica/UCLA Medical Center and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital into one dynamic hospital system. He also has been instrumental in managing the planning and rebuilding of the two replacement hospitals. We wish him the best in his new endeavor.” A nationwide search for Karpf’s replacement is under way. In the interim, John Stone, senior vice president of The Hunter Group, will serve as acting director of the UCLA Medical Center.

TURNED AWAY

Because of deep budget cuts, the University of California was unable to consider the applications of 1,500 community college transfer students and 100 freshmen seeking winter admission to UC Riverside, Irvine, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara. “We have tried to find other ways of coping with the budget cuts, but we have reached a point where the educational experience at the University of California will be severely compromised if we continue to grow without funding to support new students,” said UC President Richard C. Atkinson. Atkinson later told the Council of UC Staff Assemblies, “For the last 40-some years, the UC system has been able to grant admission to any eligible student. This is very disturbing.” Winter applications from 500 students with transfer guarantee agreements are being processed at seven campuses. At UCLA, only engineering students are being admitted this winter.

PATH TO GRAD SCHOOL

UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program has won a $1.4-million TRIO grant from the U.S. Department of Education to establish the UCLA McNair Research Scholars Program to identify, mentor and prepare students from populations severely underrepresented in graduate programs and the professoriate for graduate study and academic careers. These McNair Scholars, junior-level UCLA students, will participate in a two-year program that will include research, graduate student mentoring, intensive writing, participation in faculty and graduate student seminars and workshops on gaining admission to and succeeding in graduate school. The program is set to start this fall.