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Reed Hutchinson
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UCLA staffer gets prestigious appointment
by wendy soderburg
today staff writer
The UC Board of Regents’ meeting on July 20-21 was a momentous occasion for staff members throughout the UC system: It marked the first time staff were invited to serve as non-voting advisers to the board.
Dave Miller, manager of client services for UCLA’s Communications Technology Services (CTS), and David Bell, a c ommunication liaison with the Work-Life Resource Center at UC San Francisco, were personally selected by UC President Robert C. Dynes as the first staff members to serve in this two-year pilot program. Miller and Bell were the most recent chairs of the Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA), a 28-member board with representatives from all 10 UC campuses and laboratories.
Attending the July meeting was “familiar, yet different, in that I have for the last two years been attending the regents’ meetings in my role as chair-elect and chair of CUCSA,” said Miller, who will be present at all open-session meetings. “However, being a member of the regents’ Committee on Grounds and Buildings is a very exciting and dynamic challenge.”
He has already scheduled a meeting with his committee chair, Regent Judith Hopkinson, and is also planning to meet with each committee member. Together, the group will review capital designs and budgets for all 10 UC campuses.
“Dave is really a very exceptional person, and I couldn’t have imagined a more effective individual to work with the regents,” said Lubbe Levin, assistant vice chancellor for Campus Human Resources. “As a graduate of UCLA’s Professional Development Program, which helps us identify staff leaders, and through his contributions as chair of CUCSA, Dave has an excellent understanding of university affairs and staff issues at the campus level.”
Miller’s immediate goal, however, is to ensure that the staff adviser program is successful. “It’s important for David and me to assist the Office of the President in developing the mechanism for the selection process of future staff advisers,” Miller said. “And, of course, at the end of this two-year pilot program, we would like to see that this is approved by the regents as a permanent place for the staff.”
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