The Joint Task Force on the Academic Mission of UCLA Campus Expansion (JTF) was jointly
appointed by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost (EVC/P) Hunt and Academic Senate
Chair Cattelino to consider optimal academic programmatic uses of the newly acquired UCLA
campus expansion in Rancho Palos Verdes.
This report is the product of extensive campuswide consultation, and describes a bold, transformational and inclusive strategy for our campus. The DataX Initiative is poised to build a vibrant, interdisciplinary campus community at the intersection of data science and society. This work includes identifying collaborators and champions across campus, developing a communications apparatus to enable a robust online home for DataX, coordinating a rich salon series, and curating mechanisms to support data and data-adjacent efforts across UCLA.
Academic Planning and Budget (APB) has designed a new budget model for UCLA at the request of the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost, and Vice Chancellor/Chief Financial Officer. This represents one of UCLA’s most substantial budget model innovations since its founding in 1919. Four years of extensive research on best practices, coupled with internal/external consultations, have yielded the Bruin Budget Model, a hybrid resource allocation framework customized for UCLA. The BBM was originally slated to take effect on July 1, 2022.