Dean, Herb Alpert School of Music

Dean, Herb Alpert School of Music
Leadership Profile
Mary Elizabeth Taylor
Zachary Smith
Elizabeth Bohan
June 2016
This leadership profile is intended to provide information about UCLA and the position of dean of the Herb
Alpert School of Music. It is designed to assist qualified individuals in assessing their interest in this
position.
University of California, Los Angeles
Dean, Herb Alpert School of Music
The Opportunity
The University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) invites inquiries,
nominations, and applications for the
position of dean of the UCLA Herb
Alpert School of Music.
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
was recently approved by The
Regents of the University of California
as the first music school in the
university system. In 2007, a
generous gift from the accomplished
and influential musician provided a
key incentive for initiating a
comprehensive planning process
leading to the school’s creation. The
new school seeks to create a transformative model for music schools, esteeming all musical
traditions, promoting a balanced emphasis on scholarship and music performance, and
pioneering new models for integrated music studies. One of UCLA’s 12 professional schools, the
school has 50 tenure-track faculty lines, along with approximately 35 full-time career staff, and
annually hires approximately 77 part-time temporary faculty (adjuncts and lecturers). The
student body includes 453 majors, who earn a liberal arts degree (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) or a
professional degree (M.M., D.M.A.). Last year, 121 degrees were awarded.
The school comprises three top-rated departments—ethnomusicology, music, and musicology—
each of which successfully competes for students with top schools across the country. The
faculty are recognized for their contributions in scholarship, performance, composition, and
music education. Ethnomusicology embraces the scholarly study and performance of jazz and
world music from such countries as China, India, and Mexico and regions such as the Middle
East, and West Africa. The department also operates the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and
oversees an outstanding collection of musical instruments from many parts of the world. Music
offers programs in intensive individual studio instruction, thorough theoretical training, and full
participation in outstanding large and small ensembles. Focusing on the composition and
performance of Western classical music, its chamber, orchestral, opera, and choral programs
offer public concerts at UCLA and off-campus venues. Musicology is home to cultural theorists
and music scholars who specialize in traditional European and American music as well as film
music, punk, Motown, and rock ‘n roll, do some work on Pacific Rim, African and Cuban music,
and also operate the school’s music industry programs. The Music Library houses one of the
largest academic music collections in North America. The school also includes the UCLA
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, three centers (World Music Center; Center for
Latino Arts; Center for Music Innovation), and operates a modern recording studio and two
theaters for concerts and recitals. Located at the heart of campus, the school is housed in the
Schoenberg Music Building and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center. The school has an
annual operating budget of $22 million, of which $18 million (81 percent) is provided by state
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general funds and student tuition/fees. The school has an endowment of nearly $55 million,
with the Herb Alpert endowment (~$31.3 million) and recent Dobrow endowment ($11.7
million) being the two largest. The endowment funds earn $3 million annually. The school also
has five endowed faculty chairs ($9 million). Annually the school raises about $4 million in
philanthropic and other external support.
As the chief executive and academic officer for the school, the dean sets the standard for
intellectual engagement and accomplishment by providing strategic vision for and operational
leadership of the academic programs. The dean works to advance scholarship and education,
promoting initiatives within and outside UCLA; enhancing excellence through diversity in
educational programs and faculty and student recruitment; and linking the work of the faculty
and students to other disciplines, communities, and interests within and outside the academy.
He/she serves as the school’s public voice, articulating its contributions to local, state, regional,
national and international communities, pursuing an aggressive development program to build
the school’s resources and managing its finances and facilities. Reporting to the executive vice
chancellor and provost, he/she serves on the deans council and the council of professional
school deans, and collaborates with the chancellor, executive vice chancellor and provost, vice
chancellors and vice provosts, deans and department chairs at UCLA and across the University
of California system.
Ideal candidates will be nationally and/or internationally recognized with demonstrated
leadership and administrative experience and a strong commitment to music education and
scholarship. Minimum requirements include a record of distinguished scholarly accomplishment
and/or comparable achievements in music; significant organizational leadership and
administrative responsibility; demonstrated success in external relations and fund raising,
particularly with alumni; an established record of advancing diversity; and credentials that merit
appointment at the rank of full professor.
Potential candidates and those wishing to identify candidates should review the Procedure for
Candidacy section at the end of this document.
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The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was approved on January 21, 2016, as the first in the
University of California system, with a balanced focus on scholarship and
performance/composition, and its commitment to the understanding of music in all its
contemporary and historical diversity. It brings together three long-established departments –
ethnomusicology, music, and musicology. Each is in the top tier and the top 10 in its field,
measured by several academic standards. Esteeming all musical traditions and maintaining a
balanced emphasis on scholarship and practice, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will
pioneer new models for integrated musical studies. Within UCLA’s interdisciplinary environment,
it will foster musical and scholarly innovation through dedicated centers and degree programs,
as well as provide a focus through which music can engage with other disciplines on campus
and beyond.
Since 1919, at the birth of the UCLA campus, the teaching of music demonstrated an early
commitment by UCLA’s leadership to offer opportunities to study that art in the context of a
liberal arts research university. In 1988, ethnomusicology and musicology each became a
separate department. Now, each of these elements has combined to become a school. The
quality of the faculty and students, the education programs in which they are engaged, the
scholarly work they have produced, the music that they make, and the music industry to which
they are inextricably connected, have become a leading national and global resource.
The school affords powerful synergies
available at no other University of
California campus. Ethnomusicology,
the nation’s oldest and most
distinguished department of its kind,
serves as a complementary home to
major scholars and highly skilled
performance ensembles in jazz,
African, Afro-American and AngloAmerican traditions and music of
China, Mexico, India, Ireland, and the
Middle East. Music’s world-class
performance faculty directs major
programs in chamber, orchestral, operatic, and choral performance. Musicology is home to
some of the most sophisticated and cutting-edge cultural theorists and music thinkers active
today. The faculty, of whom 43 are tenured or tenure track, include half who are devoted to
scholarship in ethnomusicology (11.5) and musicology (10.5), and 21 who are focused on music
performance and composition or music education. They are joined annually by 77 part-time
lecturers and adjuncts, who are supported by general state funds or endowment funds.
Dedicated to inspired and innovative education, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will offer
a broad and encompassing approach to the study of music. It will aspire to the highest level of
musical performance, analysis, pedagogy, and creativity within a wide range of traditions,
including classical, jazz, popular, and traditional music from around the world as well as
emerging forms in composition and new media. Its groundbreaking research will extend across
disciplines and into all aspects of musical life, embracing history, culture, politics, ethnography,
criticism, pedagogy, theory, performance, composition, and musical thought as both discourse
and cultural practice. Situated in a city known for its exceptionally vibrant and diverse musical
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communities, the school will prioritize civic outreach, bringing the transformative experience of
music to the public while nurturing a sense of purposeful engagement among its faculty and
students.
The school will be grounded in the
disciplines of its three founding
departments, each devoted to its unique
expertise and methodologies, but will
also actively seek to integrate and
advance musical study across
disciplinary lines. Drawing on the
resources of UCLA’s music library,
ethnomusicology archive, western and
world musical instrument collections, and
state-of-the-art recording/production
facilities, as well as Southern California’s rich history of professional music-making and powerful
creative community, the school will aim to provide students with the practical skill, confidence,
and critical judgment they will need to succeed as music educators, scholars, practitioners,
entrepreneurs, administrators, and advocates.
The three departments each offer a liberal arts degree to undergraduate students (B.A.);
musicology and ethnomusicology offer M.A. and Ph.D. degrees; music offers M.M. and D.M.A.
degrees in performance and conducting and a Ph.D. in composition. Among the 463 full-time
equivalent students, 34 percent are at the graduate level, including 14 D.M.A. students and 91
Ph.D. students (includes those working for the M.A. along the way to the doctorate).
The three department chairs (who also serve as co-directors of the school) report to the dean
as do three associate deans for academic affairs, career mentoring and opportunity, and equity,
diversity and inclusion. There are about 35 full-time and 5 part-time staff members at the
school. During the past year, staff was added to support the new dean’s office. Among these
are an assistant dean and assistant to the dean, as well as five directors for communication,
development, enrollment and recruitment, operations, and student services.
A chair of the faculty was recently elected to lead the school’s new faculty executive committee,
which includes three elected representatives from each department, (two faculty members and
a student). The faculty executive committee is responsible for approving all academic programs
and policies, and is an important agency of UCLA’s academic senate and the University of
California’s shared governance system, where the faculty, not the administration, has
responsibility for academic decisions and programs.
The school’s $22 million budget is supported by $18 million in revenues from general state
funds and tuition/fees; revenues from endowments and annual grants and gifts generate about
$4 million in income annually. The school has raised $31.4 million of its $55 million goal (57%
of goal) in UCLA’s centennial campaign scheduled to conclude in 2019. The school has 5,393
alumni across the three departments; in the music department these alumni date back to the
1930s.
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The school’s home is two adjacent sets
of buildings, the Schoenberg Music
Building and the Evelyn and Mo Ostin
Music Center. Schoenberg houses
classrooms, faculty and staff offices,
and two performance halls, as well as
practice and ensemble rooms. The
music library, housed in Schoenberg, is
one of the largest academic music
collections in North America with
approximately 80,000 books, 115,000
scores, over 100 journal subscriptions,
more than 200,000 sound recordings,
and an exhaustive collection of music
score facsimiles. It also houses an extraordinary collection of musical instruments gathered
from all over the world. The recently completed Ostin Music Center includes a state-of-the-art
recording studio, spacious faculty offices and studios, as well as a café, a large ensemble room,
and editing and computer facilities.
Many areas of the original Schoenberg Music Building are badly in need of updating. Last year
the Chancellor’s office approved $1.65 million to establish a dean’s suite, relocate the Mancini
Studio, expand the ethnomusicology archive suite, and create three new teaching spaces in the
basement, one each assigned to music, music education and musicology. The first two of the
four projects will be completed by October 2017, the last two by summer 2018.
The school needs more office space for temporary faculty (lecturers and adjuncts), more
teaching assistant offices and ensemble practice rooms, and more faculty studios. It will be
essential to design and raise private funds (since no State funds are available for capital
investment) to design and build a new wing for the school in the coming decade.
Chancellor Gene Block has made clear his belief that the campus has the obligation and the
opportunity to develop still stronger connections to the city and its music industry, the region
and the state. The Herb Alpert School of Music is well-positioned to take the lead in defining
those connections. The new dean will enter a rich environment and lead the school forward.
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Opportunities and Expectations for Leadership
UCLA has powerful and ambitious goals for the Herb Alpert School of Music. The new dean will
be building on a very solid foundation. Several key challenges will need to be addressed in the
immediate future:
Create a vision for the future
The Herb Alpert School of Music is a distinctive model for music education and scholarship – its
combination of disciplines holds the promise of a new model for thinking about and creating
music in society. Each of its individual parts is strong, ranked highly in relation to its peers. The
breadth of the faculty’s interests and disciplinary backgrounds creates opportunities for
addressing the creation and experience of music from a global context and from many
viewpoints. The new dean has the opportunity to build on a strong intellectual foundation for
the study of musical traditions from around the world; to support the performance of the widest
range of musical traditions; to prepare superb musicians, composers, and music educators; and
to engage in continued analysis of and participation in the music industry itself. With the dean’s
leadership, the school community will create a vision for its future that appreciates the
disciplinary differences while simultaneously drawing people and disciplines together. Realizing
this vision will attract new talents and resources to the school and further develop and expand
global relationships.
The dean will work in concert with the faculty, students, and staff to realize a vision for the
school that reflects and leverages its disciplinary diversity and deepens its connections to Los
Angeles, the state, and broader society. In this role, the dean will serve as an intellectual
leader, considering the evolution of music and music education, and seeking ways to bring the
resources of the school together to support that evolution. Drawing on experience in widely
diverse communities, the dean will position the school to serve as the music education resource
of choice.
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Develop new resources for the school
In the next decade, the school must increase its endowment of $55 million substantially.
Funding is urgently needed for faculty chairs, graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships,
as well as endowed funding for ensemble groups and programs.
The school has had considerable success in attracting external support; the generosity of the
Herb Alpert Foundation spurred the establishment of the school. That remarkable support has
been complemented by that of David and Irmgard Dobrow and of Evelyn and Mo Ostin.
At the same time, the school needs to build its fund raising capacity aggressively. The school’s
alumni are a resource that can be engaged more effectively. The faculty seek to be a part of
the development effort and have the capability to do so. The dean, in combination with the
school’s recently appointed development staff, will continue to develop a strategy for attracting
external resources and execute that plan, devoting the necessary time to fully engage the
support of key constituents. In 2015-16, the school raised about $3.95 million in private gifts
and $0.6 million in contracts and publicly funded grants. It is one of the school’s major priorities
to increase substantially its fund raising success and to establish an independent board of
visitors.
The dean’s transparent approach to managing the school’s resources, whether drawn from the
state, tuition revenue, or external support, will also be an important expectation.
Recruit and retain extraordinary faculty and strengthen their collaborations within
the school
The faculty at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music are among the most distinguished in music
in the nation. The standards are clearly defined: scholarly prominence, teaching excellence, and
valued service. Each of the departments is independently strong; as a whole the faculty
represent a most valuable resource for UCLA, the city, region, state, nation, and world. The
dean, as leader of the faculty, will foster an intellectual and creative environment to which
faculty wish to come and in which they will flourish.
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The school has long taken strong advantage of the one of the world’s most influential music
communities in the greater Los Angeles region – drawing on actively engaged musicians and
composers and those from the music industry as lecturers, particularly in the music department.
As many as seven of the full-time faculty are expected to retire in the next five years; of those,
two are on “pathways to retirement” for 2016-17, one in music and one in ethnomusicology.
New appointments in the next several years will make possible realization of the priorities of the
faculty and the new dean.
Opportunities exist for greater collaboration across disciplinary lines within the school. As the
departments join together to create the school, the dean will lead the effort to increase their
work together in new collegial ways. There are also possibilities to develop and strengthen
collaborations with faculty in other complementary disciplines across the campus, notably in
medicine, business, education, and public health and with others as well. The dean will
strengthen those linkages, in part by gaining a deep knowledge of the work of individual faculty
members.
The dean will have an opportunity to work with these departments to increase further the
stature and diversity of the school. It is an opportunity to shape the school in a way aligned
with the school’s new vision and its possibilities.
Serve as the school’s principal public voice
The dean, as the intellectual leader of the school, needs to be a powerful public presence,
representing the school and its capabilities to the university, to Los Angeles and to those
audiences externally for whom it provides knowledge, training and performances. UCLA, under
its chancellor, has declared its commitment to strengthen the ties with Los Angeles, the region
and the state and to develop national and international ties to complement these local and
regional relationships. The school is well positioned to connect powerfully with musicians and
scholars, as well as the music industry.
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The Qualities Sought in the Dean
The successful candidate will be a nationally recognized, strong, self-assured, entrepreneurial
leader able to infuse the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with a sense of common purpose
and to realize outstanding accomplishments that engender pride. Requirements include a record
of distinguished research, teaching and/or musical accomplishment; substantial administrative
experience, preferably at a research university; proven success in external fund development;
and credentials that merit appointment at the rank of full professor in one of the three
departments of the school. Appreciation for both the scholarly mission of the school as well as
its preparation of performing musicians is critical. Experience with broad global traditions for
making and performing music as well as with the music industry supporting these endeavors
will be highly valued.
In addition, the candidate will possess:
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the leadership skills to develop a unique and progressive vision for the new school and
the capacity to design and implement a sound strategic plan for the school’s future in
conjunction with the faculty;
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the skills and experience to represent the school effectively to audiences within UCLA, in
Los Angeles, nationally and internationally;
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a commitment to creating and nurturing a distinguished faculty;
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fiscal planning and fund raising experience;
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a commitment to an intellectually and culturally diverse academic environment; and
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a commitment to the school’s leadership role in the world of music globally.
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The dean will make critical contributions to the continued evolution of a distinguished
institution. This is an exceptional opportunity for an individual with the drive, skill and
experience to bring creative leadership to the organization and to play a meaningful role in
shaping its future. The new dean will embrace these opportunities, helping to realize the
potential of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The selected candidate, whose leadership is
eagerly sought, will make a contribution to creating a new and transformed institution.
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UCLA: An Overview
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is among the most distinguished research
institutions in the nation, public or private. Situated on 419 acres, five miles from the Pacific
Ocean, it is located in Los Angeles, a city of remarkable cultural institutions, economic strength
and extraordinary diversity, and home to the largest concentration of media and entertainment
industries on the globe.
Founded in 1919, UCLA has the largest number of students in the 10-campus land-grant
University of California system. On a single contiguous campus, its more than 4,000 faculty
members teach approximately 40,000 students, of whom nearly 25,000 are undergraduates in
125 programs and the remainder are graduate students in programs in the College of Letters
and Science and 12 professional schools. The Conference Board of Associated Research
Councils, which evaluates the quality of the faculty in 274 American research universities, ranks
UCLA 14th in the nation among both public and private universities. Of the 41 doctoral degree
disciplines studied, 11 UCLA academic departments are ranked among the top 10 in the country
and 20 are ranked among the top 20. Five of its faculty members and four of its alumni are
Nobel Laureates. Distinguished faculty members also include Guggenheim fellows, Sloan fellows
and Fulbright scholars, as well as numerous members of the National Academy of Sciences and
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The 20,300 staff members on campus are critical
partners in shaping, maintaining and operating the educational environment.
The College of Letters and Science offers programs leading to both undergraduate and
graduate degrees, as do the School of the Arts and Architecture; Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science; Herb Alpert School of Music; School of Nursing; Luskin School
of Public Affairs and School of Theater, Film and Television. The other professional schools offer
graduate programs exclusively: the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies;
School of Law; Anderson School of Management; and, in the health sciences, the School of
Dentistry, David Geffen School of Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health.
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UCLA’s faculty and
research staff for each
year since 2010-11
have generated an
average of $1 billion in
research contracts and
grants, placing UCLA
among the top research
universities in the
country by that
measure. Its library,
ranked as one of the 10
best in the nation, has
eight million volumes. Each year, UCLA hosts hundreds of postdoctoral scholars who share its
facilities. Its laboratories have seen major breakthroughs in scientific and medical research; its
study centers have helped foster understanding among the various cultures of the world; and
its ongoing pursuit of new knowledge in vital areas continues to improve the quality of life for
people around the world.
Scholarly achievement forms the intellectual core of UCLA. The environment is one that
encourages collaborations across school and departmental lines and fosters this collaborative
culture. Faculty members teach undergraduate and graduate courses and, through their
research, create knowledge as well as transmit it. At UCLA, students are taught by the people
making the discoveries. They exchange ideas with faculty members who are authorities in their
fields and, even as undergraduates, are encouraged to participate in research to experience
firsthand the discovery of new knowledge.
UCLA is an institution of great diversity – its students, their origins, its faculty, their interests, its
programs and their variety. That is an extraordinary institutional resource
As an institution, UCLA is somewhat decentralized, with each of its schools operating to achieve
its own goals and responsible for its own budget. At the same time, school and college leaders
and the faculty customarily pursue education and scholarly activity across disciplinary and
programmatic boundaries to an unusual degree; the institution has low barriers for
interdisciplinary collaborations.
As a public university, serving the community is one of UCLA’s greatest commitments.
Undergraduate and graduate programs, research activities, community outreach programs and
grass-roots participation by students, faculty, staff and alumni help to forge a partnership
between the university and the greater Los Angeles region. The chancellor has made clear his
belief that the campus has the obligation and the opportunity to develop still stronger
connections to the city, the region and the state.
Additional data regarding UCLA’s faculty, students, staff and programs may be found at
http://www.ucla.edu/about.html.
More detailed demographic data on the UCLA student body may be found at
http://www.aim.ucla.edu/enrollment.aspx.
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Demographic statistics on UCLA’s 2015 regular rank faculty may be found at
https://faculty.diversity.ucla.edu/our-library/demographic-data1/Faculty%20Diversity%20Statistics%20Monograph/20142015CampusMonograph.pdf.
The University of California System
The University of California
traces its origins to 1868,
when Governor Henry H.
Haight signed the Organic
Act providing for California’s
first “complete University.”
Classes began the following
year at the College of
California in Oakland. The
first buildings on the Berkeley
campus were completed in
1873, and the university
moved into its new home.
The following June, the
university conferred
bachelor’s degrees on 12
graduates.
Today, the university is one of the largest and most renowned centers of higher education in
the world. Its 10 campuses span the state, from Davis in the north to San Diego in the south.
In between are Berkeley, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Merced, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Irvine,
and Los Angeles.
All campuses adhere to the same admission guidelines and high academic standards, yet each
has its own distinct character and academic individuality. Among the campuses, there are five
medical schools and four law schools, as well as schools of architecture, business
administration, education, engineering and many others.
The UC system is governed by a Board of Regents whose regular members are appointed by
the governor of California. In addition to setting general policy and making budgetary decisions
for the UC system, the regents appoint the president of the university, the 10 chancellors, and
the key leaders who administer the affairs of the individual campuses and major divisions of the
university. There are two alumni seats on the Board of Regents, one shared by UCLA and UC
Berkeley and the other rotated among the remaining eight campuses. The UCLA Alumni
Association is always represented at the table, either as a voting alumni regent or, when
Berkeley has the voting seat, as non-voting alumni regent-designate.
The regents delegate authority in academic matters to the academic senate, which is vested
with policy authority for the university as a whole. The senate, comprising faculty members and
certain administrative officers, determines the conditions for admission and granting of degrees,
authorizes and supervises courses and curricula, and advises university administrators on
budgets and faculty appointments and promotions. Individual divisions of the university-wide
academic senate determine academic policy for each campus. Students participate in policymaking at both campus-wide and system-wide levels.
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Additional information about the University of California may be found at its website:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/.
Profile of the Herb Alpert School of Music
Student Enrollment
2015-2016
Ethnomusicology
Music
Musicology
Total students
Faculty
2016-17*
Ethnomusicology
Music
Musicology
Total
Undergraduate
81
174
51
306
Full-time Faculty
11.5
21.0
10.5
43.0
Graduate
35
90
32
157
Unfilled FTE
3.89
3.22
0.52
7.33
Lecturers/Adjuncts
(part-time appointments)
32
34
11
77
*Count includes two tenure-track faculty hired in 2015-16 by Music and one by Musicology.
Temporary faculty (lecturers/adjunct professors) are all part time (25% to 75%); they are paid
with funds from the unfilled FTE and other funds available for teaching, including educational
funds and endowment monies. In the next few years, most unfilled FTE lines are scheduled to
be filled. Temporary faculty in musicology teach in the music industry minor; those in
ethnomusicology teach jazz performance or are responsible for the world music ensembles; and
those in music primarily teach music performance in studios.
In 2016-17, the department of music
will be recruiting two faculty
members in the area of composition,
one at the assistant professor rank
and one at the rank of professor);
the department of ethnomusicology
will be hiring two faculty members,
one in the area of world
music/ethnomusicology at the
assistant professor rank and one in
the area of global jazz
studies/ethnomusicology at the rank
of professor.
The school currently has four
endowed chairs. Income from the chair endowment provides research support, summer salary,
as well as program support; the endowed funds do not provide academic year salaries.
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Covel Chair in Music, held by Peter Kazaras (music)
Katz Chair of Jewish Music, held by Mark Kligman (ethnomusicology and musicology)
Klein Chair of Music Performance Studies (to be filled)
Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, held by Daniel Neuman (ethnomusicology)
Revenues by source
2015-2016
State general funds and tuition
Corporate and foundation support
Support from individual donors
$18.0 million
$ 0.5 million
$ 3.5 million
Alumni rate of participation in fund raising: 10 percent estimated
Centers and Institutes
Center for Latino Arts, Faculty Director, Professor Steve Loza (ethnomusicology)
Center for Music Innovation, Faculty Director, Professor Robert Fink (musicology)
World Music Center, Faculty Director, Professor Helen Rees (ethnomusicology)
UCLA Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, Faculty Director, Visiting Professor Herbie
Hancock
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Procedure for Candidacy
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites inquiries and applications for the
position of dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The review of candidates will begin
immediately and will continue until an appointment is made, with the goal that he or she can be
announced before the end of 2016 and take office in January or July 1, 2017. To be ensured full
consideration, please electronically send a letter of interest and curriculum vitae in confidence to
UCLAHerbAlpertMusic@wittkieffer.com by August 22, 2016. Address inquiries to UCLA’s
Witt/Kieffer consultants, Mary Elizabeth Taylor and Zachary Smith at 949 851-5070 or Elizabeth
Bohan at 630-575-6161. Nominations are welcome.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories
covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy - http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct
The material presented in this position specification should be relied upon for informational
purposes only. The material has been copied, compiled or quoted in part from UCLA documents
and personal interviews and is believed to be reliable. Naturally, while every effort has been
made to ensure the accuracy of this information provided by UCLA, source documents and
factual situations govern.
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