The Chancellor’s Advisory Group on Diversity (CAGD)

In September 1998, then Chancellor Albert Carnesale appointed the Chancellor’s Advisory Group on Diversity to help advance the effort to sustain and promote campus diversity. We consider this work essential to advancing the widely shared purposes of making UCLA a premier institution, noted for the quality, richness, and academic integrity of its program and its vibrancy as a campus community. We consider it essential also to effecting change in the patterns of disadvantage and discrimination that are still so evident in the academy and in society.

Our work is framed by the following statement on diversity that we developed in our first year.

At UCLA, a public university located in one of the most heterogeneous regions in the world, diversity is an indispensable element of academic excellence. We are fundamentally committed to including and integrating within the campus community individuals from different groups as defined by such characteristics as race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic, background, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability and intellectual outlook. This commitment requires efforts to attract to the campus members of historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups.  However, to create a rich academic experience and intellectual and cultural environment for everyone, we extend our concern beyond representation to genuine participation. Our commitment to diversity entails devising strategies and programs to realize its benefits fully in education, research and service. This commitment inevitably means an openness to change—indeed, to transformation.

Chancellor’s Advisory Group on Diversity
September 20, 1999   

CHANCELLOR’S ADVISORY GROUP ON DIVERSITY MEMBERSHIP,  2006-2007

The CAGD is composed of senior administrators (staff, faculty, graduate and undergraduate divisions) and representation from the Academic Senate and undergraduate and graduate student bodies.

In anticipation of its tenth year of service, Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams took the leadership of the group and charged the committee with examining UCLA’s strategic plans and developing a comprehensive diversity plan for the campus to spotlight efforts and strengthen commitments to equity and inclusion across all programs and for all members of the campus community.

The members of the 2007-2008 CAGD include the following:

Charles Alexander	Assoc V Provost, Stu Diversity / Dir, Acad Advancement Prog	calexander@college.ucla.edu
Linda Avila	Dir, Staff Affirmative Action	lcavila@saa.ucla.edu
Rosina Becerra	Vice Provost	rbecerra@conet.ucla.edu
Elizabeth Bjork	Professor and Chair of the Academic Senate	elbjork@psych.ucla.edu
Anne Busacca-Ryan	President, Undergraduate Student Association	abusaccaryan@ucla.edu
Susan Drange Lee	Director, Faculty Diversity & Development	sdrangelee@conet.ucla.edu
Frank Gilliam	Associate Vice Chancellor	fgilliam@conet.ucla.edu
Mike Goldstein	Professor and Vice Chair, Academic Senate	msgoldst@ucla.edu
Nurit Katz	President, Graduate Student Association	pres@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu
Ines Boechat	Chair, Council on Diversity and Equal Opportunity (CODEO)	iboechat@mednet.ucla.edu
Lubbe Levin	Assistant Vice Chancellor	llevin@chr.ucla.edu
Joe Mandel	Vice Chancellor	jmandel@conet.ucla.edu
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan	Dean/Vice Chancellor	cmkernan@gdnet.ucla.edu
Janina Montero	Vice Chancellor	jmontero@saonet.ucla.edu
Neil Parker	Associate Dean	nparker@mednet.ucla.edu
Thomas Rice	Vice Chancellor	trice@conet.ucla.edu
Michael Schill	Dean and Professor	schill@law.ucla.edu