Woman Named to Run UCLA’s Biggest School
From Times Staff Reports
Patricia O’Brien, an expert in 19th and 20th century French history and a veteran administrator in the University of California system, has been named executive dean of UCLA’s College of Letters and Science.
The college is the biggest academic unit at UCLA and includes 34 departments and 130 undergraduate majors.
O’Brien, 58, has been dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at UC Riverside since 1999.
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