Gene D. Block

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As chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Gene Block oversees the university’s three-part mission of education, research and service. Chancellor Block is a champion of public universities and has called for UCLA to define for California and the nation the role of a great public research university in a major urban center in the 21st century. The priorities he has set for UCLA during his administration include academic excellence, diversity, civic engagement and financial security.

A biologist, Dr. Block is a member of the faculty in the David Geffen School of Medicine and the College of Letters and Science. He also leads a research laboratory studying the neurophysiological basis of biological timing, with a central focus on age-related changes in sleep and alertness.

Previously, he served as vice president and provost of the University of Virginia.

Blog Entries by Gene D. Block

Public Higher Education: Too Big -- and Far Too Important -- to Fail

0 Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 2:56 PM

President Obama recently called on the nation's governors to invest more in education, including public higher education. "Countries that out-educate us today," he told the assembled governors at the White House, "will out-compete us tomorrow."

The president also observed that budgets at the state and federal levels are about making...

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So Much Is at Stake: The Future of UCLA

0 Comments | Posted December 2, 2009 | 9:00 AM

Recently, the University of California Board of Regents approved a systemwide increase of 32 percent in undergraduate student fees. The magnitude of their action is unprecedented. Students across the 10 campuses were outraged. They see the steep hike as an affront to the basic purpose of the UC -- to...

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