Professor of history Janice Reiff, immediate past chair of UCLA's Academic Senate, will serve as the 2014-15 senate–administration liaison for online education. In this role, she will help lead UCLA’s planning for online education while enhancing coordination between faculty and administration.
Reiff's appointment was announced in a letter to the campus by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, who noted, "During Jan’s terms as senate chair-elect and senate chair, she spearheaded important advances in our campus’s online education efforts. In addition to organizing two online education summits, she played a key role in our planning for online course and program development."
Over the next year, Reiff will collaborate with faculty and administrators to develop a comprehensive institutional proposal for encouraging and sustaining online and hybrid learning at UCLA. This proposal, which "will be rooted in a set of principles that underscore the priority we place on educational quality," said Waugh, will consider courses and degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as self-supporting certificate and degree programs.
