UCSD's New Vice Chancellor Talks About Life and Learning in a New Academic Year

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Published October 17, 2007 at 9:23 AM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

As UCSD begins a new academic year, Paul Drake begins a new job. We'll speak UCSD's new senior vice chancellor about what the school's new class looks like what philosophy the university brings to the

Tom Fudge: A month ago, as classes were getting underway at UCSD, the university announced the appointment of a new senior vice chancellor for academic affairs . His name is Paul Drake, the former dean of social sciences.

It wasn't the kind of announcement that made front page news. Yet, the vice chancellor is a powerful force at the UC campus. Considered the second in command, he's in charge of all of the campus' academic affairs, as his title suggests.

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UCSD is considered among the best public universities in the country. How does it achieve and maintain that academic excellence? And what does it aspire to do in he future?

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Paul Drake, senior vice chancellor of academic affairs at UCSD. Paul is the former dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the university.