UCLA announced that Michael Levine will become the interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

In an email to students Friday, Chancellor Gene Block announced that Levine – the current vice chancellor for academic affairs and personnel – had been appointed to the role. He will serve until Jan. 1 after having previously been interim EVCP twice from July to September 2019 and from October 2021 to September 2022.

The executive vice chancellor and provost deputizes for the chancellor in their absence and is the university’s chief academic officer, according to the EVCP website. The website also states that the EVCP is responsible for working with the academic senate and overseeing faculty hiring and retention.

Levine’s gross pay as interim EVCP in 2022 was $453,075. 

Current Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt was appointed by the UC Board of Regents to serve as interim Chancellor at a meeting June 12. He will serve the role until January, when Chancellor-designate Julio Frenk will take over.

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Kathleen Komar, a distinguished professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Germanic Languages, will serve as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and personnel until Levine returns to the role. She previously served as chair of the UCLA Academic Senate.

Levine is also a distinguished professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine, with a research focus in neurophysiology. Block said in the email that he is grateful to the administrators assisting with the senior leadership transition.

“As I near the end of my 17 years as chancellor, I am grateful to each of these leaders for their deep commitment to UCLA over several decades, and for stepping into these interim roles,” Block said in the email. “I am confident they will provide continuity and effective oversight during this period of transition.”