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    UC regents approve UCLA's first Latino chancellor, the president of University of Miami

    by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Jun 12, 2024 5 minutes
    Julio Frenk, president of the University of Miami, has been chosen as the next chancellor of UCLA.

    LOS ANGELES — University of Miami President Julio Frenk, a Mexico-born global health expert, will become the next chancellor of UCLA and first Latino tapped to lead the nation's top public research university, winning unanimous approval Wednesday by University of California regents — as the campus faces a dark time of divisive protests.

    Frenk, 70, will bring deep expertise in public health, a medical degree and experience as Mexico's former health minister to the Westwood campus — equipping him to oversee its comprehensive network of hospitals and clinics along with the large academic enterprise of 46,700 students. Frenk has also proved to be a prodigious fundraiser, leading a $2.5 billion campaign for the University of Miami's centennial next year and quadrupling contributions as Harvard's dean of the school of public health — helping secure a historic $350 million endowment gift.

    Frenk will succeed Chancellor Gene Block, after a 17-year tenure that included

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