Implementing the UCLA Strategic Plan involves the efforts of countless staff, faculty, students, alumni and supporters as we create the future together. View a timeline of major achievements to date as we make progress across our five goals.
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May 2025
UCLA’s Teaching and Learning Center seminar series brings educational innovation experts to campus.
May 2025
UCLA’s International Institute hosts ‘How do Community-Engaged Research Practices Strengthen Transnational Solidarities?,’ the first event of the “Local Partnerships, Global Impacts: Fostering and Sustaining Transnational Solidarities” initiative.
May 2025
UCLA co-organizes the Pan Pacific Meeting: New Developments in Biomedical Sciences with Kyoto University and Academia Sinica.
May 2025
Twenty-three Exploratory Social Impact Collaboratives complete their work. Five new Exploratory proposals, 26 proposals for seed projects, and 11 proposals for transformative projects are received for the upcoming grant cycle.
May 2025
Five departments complete the first year of capacity building to support community-engaged teaching/learning.
May 2025
Ten course development grantees from 2024-25 complete preparation of new community-engaged course syllabi. Eleven applications are received for the 2025-26 awards for new undergraduate, graduate and professional school community-engaged courses.
May 2025
Five schools/divisions approve guidelines for evaluating community-engaged scholarship for tenure and promotion.
May 2025
The soft launch of the Bruin Process Flow Portal is implemented. The portal serves as a submission, evaluation and repository platform for continuous process improvement opportunities campuswide.
May 2025
Human Resources & Payroll Operations Center services are expanded to two new campus partners with 131 employees: Undergraduate Education and Division of Graduate Education.
May 2025
The Reimagine IT Talent Initiative is completed and UCLA Digital & Technology Solutions (DTS) is launched — a rebranding that signifies our organizational transformation and renewed commitment to delivering modern, strategic technology solutions in support of UCLA’s mission.
April 2025
UCLA’s Teaching and Learning Center and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television partner to bring immersive media into the classroom.
April 2025
UCLA Professor Aomar Boum is elected to the National Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
April 2025
UCLA scholars Susanna Hecht and Shaina Potts receive awards by academic associations that highlight the transformative insights that the field of geography brings to international studies.
April 2025
UCLA hosts the U.S. State Department’s 2025 International Women of Courage.
April 2025
UCLA International Institute announces the Global Education Award RFP.
April 2025
UCLA International Institute announces the Global Research Award RFP.
April 2025
UCLA participates in the U7+ Alliance of World Universities’ Presidential Summit at the University of Ottawa.
April 2025
UCLA reaches several key milestones in the successful rollout of the new Bruin Financial Aid system, a significant advancement in modernizing and improving the student financial aid experience.
March 2025
As part of the Teaching and Learning Center’s Modernizing Student Experience Initiative, the center begins transitioning to a new course feedback platform designed to transform how it collects and uses student insights from our Student Experiences of Teaching (SET) surveys.
March 2025
As part of the UCLA Chancellor’s Leadership, Innovation, Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Program, Chancellor Julio Frenk and Dr. Felicia Knaul visit Casa de California and meet alumni in Mexico.
February 2025
UCLA’s Teaching and Learning Center launches the Educational Innovation Grants Program.
February 2025
The Space Occupancy Sensor Pilot Program is implemented to evaluate space-use in five buildings on campus. The program aims to improve campus efficiency, sustainability and functionality; ensure campus resources are used effectively to support the growing needs of students, faculty and staff; reduce costs, align with sustainability goals and minimize the campus’s environmental footprint; and facilitate smarter decision-making, resource allocation and maintenance, ensuring a well-maintained and forward-thinking campus environment.
February 2025
UCLA Administration launches the UCLA Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certificate Workshop to enhance knowledge and practical applications of continuous process improvement efforts on campus. To date, 113 participants have received a Yellow Belt certificate.
January 2025
UC Alianza provides grant seed funding to the UCLA International Education Office for two travel study programs to Mexico and to the UCLA Department of Education for a summer student internship program in Mexico.
January 2025
The pilot planning phase for the space-use technologies project is complete. This pilot aims to explore how UCLA can enhance data environments, accurately evaluate occupancy at scale, optimize energy demand management and enable data-driven decisions regarding space utilization.
January 2025
UCLA’s Teaching and Learning Center partners with CEILS to launch the Student Experience Project (SEP). As a national network of public universities and scholars, SEP is dedicated to improving the college experience for all students by engaging instructors through communities of practice to translate research on belonging and growth mindset into equitable classroom practices.
January 2025
Due to the severity and impact of the fires on L.A. residents both within and beyond the fire zones, the Social Impact Collaboratives call for proposals is revised to prioritize proposals that address issues related to post-fire recovery and rebuilding of lives and communities, including but not limited to fire- and climate-specific topics, housing, economic recovery, health and well-being, attention to vulnerable populations, etc.
December 2024
The UCLA International Institute shares six new student videos, four new impact stories and 14 new global alumni stories of UCLA’s engagement around the world.
December 2024
Professor and Director of UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute David Myers represents UCLA on the U7+ working group to share UCLA’s Dialogue Across Difference initiatives with these international universities and learning what they are doing.
December 2024
The UCLA Global Advisors Council Data Subcommittee designs a new data survey to collect information on our faculty’s international work.
December 2024
UCLA Administration develops courses for the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certificate workshop, part of the Continuous Process Improvement learning pathway.
December 2024
Outstanding UCLA instructors are honored at the Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching awards ceremony.
December 2024
UCLA joins elected officials, community leaders and students gathered to celebrate the success of the ongoing partnership between the university and Downtown Magnets High School, one of approximately 80 schools in the L.A. area served by UCLA’s Early Academic Outreach Program and other UCLA college-readiness programs. This is the first of several events meant to highlight the ways in which UCLA enhances the lives of Angelenos from across the city’s diverse and dynamic communities.
December 2024
UCLA announces funding for 40 community-engaged scholarship grants.
November 2024
International Institute IT team designs internal web-crawler program to search UCLA websites for data on international programs, work and events in order to better tell the story of UCLA’s global engagement.
November 2024
The UCLA Teaching and Learning Center’s Holistic Evaluation of Teaching Symposium showcases and elevates the UCLA initiative to improve how we evaluate teaching excellence on a national stage.
October 2024
The UCLA Teaching & Learning Center holds its New Instructor Teaching Institute kick-off, offering new instructors interactive sessions that explore strategies for reflection and growth in their teaching practice.
October 2024
Two new Global Award programs are developed, approved and funded: The Global Research Award Program aims to advance globally engaged research; the Global Education Award Program aims to internationalize UCLA’s curricula. Applications for the awards will be accepted starting January 2025.
October 2024
UCLA’s Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost surveys Senate Faculty to solicit input on creating a UCLA Institute for the Future of Los Angeles, which also gathers data on current L.A-focused teaching and research.
October 2024
The Occupancy Space pilot program, which will inform initiatives related to campus space management, enters its planning phase. The project team has researched and identified vendors for equipment, identified campus buildings for the occupancy analysis pilot, engaged with ITS on network support and determined a funding source for the pilot.
October 2024
UCLA Effectiveness Advisory & Governance develops an Institutional Effectiveness Metrics report that highlights the current state of performance metrics, the need for an improved framework for measuring success, guidelines for aligning performance metrics to the overall mission, and recommendations for institutional metrics based on data gathered internally and through benchmarking activities.
October 2024
The Center for Community Engagement and the Teaching & Learning Center enter an agreement to sustain assessment of community-engaged teaching and learning.
October 2024
First UCLA Downtown Programs Collaboration meeting is held to build synergy and partnerships among programs.
September 2024
The UCLA Teaching & Learning Center hosts its campuswide teaching assistant conference, empowering TAs to grow their teaching skills, build their campus network and connect with fellow TAs.
September 2024
UCLA Alumni reorganizes its team to align strategic goals around reimagining alumni engagement and amplifying UCLA’s international narrative. A new global engagement position is created.
September 2024
UCLA launches an ITS-led Data Governance Committee to establish data stewardship, promote data literacy, and implement consistent practices that enable ethical and secure data management for data-driven decision-making.
September 2024
Professor Hal Monbouquette is named special advisor to the vice chancellor for research and creative activities on the UCLA Research Park.
August 2024
The Global Advisors Council Data Subcommittee meets to develop a plan to collect data about UCLA’s global work and impact.
August 2024
The UCLA Teaching & Learning Center defines its mission and goals in alignment with campus strategic priorities, as reflected in the launch of its new website.
August 2024
UCLA receives $120 million from Alya and Gary Michelson for new California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy.
August 2024
Flad Architects performs a master planning exercise for the UCLA Research Park.
July 2024
UCLA Administration launches three Continuous Process Improvement projects related to Facilities Management: Service request ticketing process consolidation, material management reorganization and energy conservation.
July 2024
UCLA Effectiveness Advisory & Governance Committee (EAGC) develops Institutional Success Metrics Report highlighting the current state of performance reporting and recommending institutional metrics based on internal and benchmark data.
Read the draft report and learn more about the EAGC
July 2024
Angela Fentiman joins the Teaching and Learning Center leadership team as director of communications and creative services.
July 2024
Fowler Museum permanently returns cultural objects to Australia’s Warumungu Community.
July 2024
International Institute awards Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowships to 25 UCLA advanced doctoral students who will travel abroad for dissertation work.
July 2024
Data tracking on community-engaged research is established.
June 2024
Humanities Division partners with Teaching and Learning Center to launch the Humanities Course Design Initiative, a pilot program offering yearlong support (AY24-25) for faculty to develop online undergraduate courses. The goal of this initiative is to support innovative teaching practices that have a sustained impact, helping departments increase enrollment and reach a wider UC audience.
June 2024
Several digital storytelling initiatives are launched by the International Institute: new impact stories; project highlights; interviews with UCLA international students, in partnership with the Dashew Center; and a new UCLA Alumni Abroad site, in partnership with UCLA Alumni.
June 2024
The Global Advisors Council forms a third subcommittee to design a plan to create a database of international activities on campus.
June 2024
Tuition reduction program is implemented for undergraduate students enrolling in 195CE internship courses while undertaking unpaid summer internships.
June 2024
Stimulus funding is awarded to support new community-engaged teaching and research: 10 grants to faculty to develop new undergraduate, graduate and professional school courses; 5 awards to academic departments to build their capacity to support community-engaged teaching and their community partners; and 23 grants to interdisciplinary teams of faculty to develop new social impact research partnerships.
May 2024
The Teaching and Learning Center hosts the inaugural Scholars in Teaching & Learning Seminar. These seminars will be held regularly and aim to amplify insights from pedagogical research and disseminate innovative teaching practices.
May 2024
Flad Architects is selected to design the master plan for the transformation of the new UCLA Research Park space. The initial phase of their work should be completed by fall 2024.
May 2024
The UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights’ conference kicked off the opening of Promise Europe, UCLA’s second international affiliate.
April 2024
UCLA names Harold Monbouquette as special advisor to the vice chancellor for research and creative activities for the UCLA Research Park, effective May 1, 2024.
April 2024
UCLA Teaching and Learning Center announces Dialogue across Difference Faculty Fellows Program that will support instructors of record in incorporating values of intellectual engagement, curiosity, empathy, active listening and critical thinking into their course materials and teaching practices during AY 2024–25.
April 2024
UCLA announces new measures to increase student access to internships by reducing costs for enrolling in 195CE internship courses.
March 2024
The Council on Academic Personnel releases new guidance on evaluation and recognition of community-engaged scholarly work.
March 2024
UCLA Teaching and Learning Center announces newest members of its leadership team with hiring of director of graduate student and postdoctoral scholar engagement, director of instructional design and media promotion, director of educational development programs, and director for assessment of student and instructor experience.
March 2024
UCLA Teaching and Learning Center engages its new Goal 4 implementation committees: 1) Evaluation of the Teaching Process; 2) Innovating Instructional Practice; 3) Modernizing Learning Spaces; and 4) Diversifying Modalities of Instruction
March 2024
UCLA joins the U7+ Alliance of World Universities, an organization that brings together university presidents from more than 15 countries to address its most pressing challenges at the local, regional and global levels.
March 2024
UCLA International Institute announces the International Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship open to UCLA advanced doctoral students in good standing whose research focuses on one or more aspects of international or regional studies.
March 2024
The UCLA Office of Research and Creative Activities and the UCLA Center for Community Engagement announce the availability of exploratory grants to support new Social Impact Collaboratives — interdisciplinary community-engaged research and creative activities with a focus on working with L.A. stakeholders on critical issues in Los Angeles.
March 2024
UCLA’s inaugural Global Advisors Council holds its inagural meeting. New subcommittees on Global Research Awards and Global Education Awards are formed.
March 2024
Campus Human Resources and IT Services launch JDXpert, UCLA’s new position description management system, and iCIMS, UCLA’s new applicant tracking system, along with the fully redesigned UCLA Campus Job Opportunities website, all part of the HR IT Systems Optimization (HRITSO) Program.
March 2024
A Faculty Advisory Committee is established for the proposed new Quarter in LA program that is slated to begin in spring 2025. Members are Dana Cuff, Todd Presner, Nick Shapiro, Bharat Venkat and Marques Vestal.
March 2024
‘People Behind the Plan’ series launches on UCLA Newsroom featuring Bruins who are creating the future at UCLA by advancing the strategic plan’s goals and priorities.
January 2024
Bruin Buy Plus procurement system is launched to modernize, streamline and optimize campus procurement processes.
January 2024
Bruin Voice Zoom phones are adopted as part of a transformation of campus technology infrastructure and will save departments $1M+ annually.
January 2024
UCLA acquires former Westside Pavilion mall to create a world-class research park.
January 2024
UCLA Global Advisors Council being assembled to focus on several initiatives, including building out both an interactive map of UCLA’s global reach and engagement and a site highlighting stories of global impact.
January 2024
Eric Avila appointed faculty director of Quarter in L.A. program, overseeing the development of a new undergrad program combining study of L.A. with internships in students’ fields of interest.
January 2024
Community Engagement Advisors Network is appointed to serve as a cross-campus network of faculty scholars who will connect UCLA’s efforts in community engagement.
January 2024
Michelle Caswell appointed UCLA’s first special advisor to the EVCP on community-engaged scholarship.
January 2024
Community-engaged course funding is launched, with opportunities for individual instructors and academic departments.
December 2023
Four subcommittees are established to address priorities:
1) Evaluation of Teaching Process; 2) Innovating Instructional Practice; 3) Modernizing Learning Spaces; and 4) Diversifying Modalities of Instruction
November 2023
Goal 2 launches during UCLA International Education Week with the “UCLA Glocal Conversation.”
October 2023
UCLA Downtown Programming Board is formed to review proposals for collaborative uses of the space that will create a vibrant community-engaged downtown LA hub.
October 2023
Creating the Future: UCLA Strategic Plan 2023-28 officially launches.
August 2023
Erin Sanders O’Leary is hired as UCLA’s first vice provost for teaching and learning to build the university’s capacity for innovation in education.
June 2023
UCLA’s Data Lakehouse, a shared data foundation for the campus, is established to enable data-informed decision making.
June 2023
UCLA acquires historic Trust building, establishing UCLA Downtown.
