UCLA’s Orbach Named UC Riverside Chancellor
Raymond L. Orbach, provost of UCLA’s College of Letters and Science, was named chancellor of UC Riverside, according to an announcement Friday by the UC Board of Regents.
A physicist, Orbach, 57, was selected from 119 applicants and nominees after a six-month nationwide search. He will begin the job July 1. He succeeds Rosemary S.J. Schraer.
Orbach, a Los Angeles native, was praised by UC system President David P. Gardner as “a scholar of international reputation, a fine teacher and a seasoned administrator.”
Also on Friday, Karl S. Pister, interim chancellor at UC Santa Cruz for eight months, was named chancellor there effective April 1. Pister, 66, succeeds Robert Stevens, who resigned in January, 1991. A former engineering dean at UC Berkeley, Pister took over as interim chancellor at the 10,100-student Santa Cruz campus last August. Orbach and Pister will each earn $150,000 a year.
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