Chancellor Julio Frenk announced in an email Monday that he will give students the chance to attend one-on-one meetings with him.
The new initiative – titled “UCLA Connects: Chancellor’s Office Hours” – allows students to meet Frenk each quarter through randomized selection. Students must enter the lottery through a form on the chancellor’s website by Jan. 26 and will be chosen at random, according to the email.
“I want to hear directly from students — to learn more about their experiences, understand their concerns and gather their ideas for strengthening our university,” Frenk, who celebrated one year of serving as chancellor at the beginning of the month, said in the email. “I will come to each conversation with open ears and an open heart, and I will take notes on what I hear.”
Frenk added in the email that the project is meant to build off his previous Listening Exercise – in which he hosted 38 campus-wide discussions that ran from February through May. The Listening Exercise had 6,355 total attendees and included 47 UCLA departments and schools, according to the chancellor’s website.
Frenk has also met with the Undergraduate Students Association Council, Graduate Students Association and other student groups, he said in the email.
He added that his individual meetings with students will continue throughout the winter, spring and fall quarters.
“I look forward to these conversations and the opportunity to connect more personally with our students,” Frenk said. “Your voices matter deeply. They help guide our ambitions, ground our decisions and keep us focused on our mission of teaching, research and service.”
