Chancellor Albert Carnesale today announced the selection of Daniel M. Neuman, Dean of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture, as the University’s next Executive Vice Chancellor. Pending approval by the University of California Board of Regents, the appointment is effective July 1, 2002.

Neuman will succeed current Executive Vice Chancellor Wyatt R. (Rory) Hume, who is leaving UCLA to become Vice Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales in his native Australia.

“Dan Neuman will be a superb addition to UCLA’s senior leadership team,� Carnesale said. “He has impeccable credentials as a teacher, an academic administrator, and a scholar. I look forward to working with him to sustain and enhance the excellence of UCLA’s academic enterprise.�

The Executive Vice Chancellor is the second-ranking campus official, serving as the University’s chief operating officer and as acting chancellor in Carnesale’s absence. In his new capacity, Neuman will oversee UCLA’s wide-ranging programs of teaching, research, and service. In addition, he will guide strategic planning and policy development, promote campuswide academic initiatives, and help to define budgetary and development priorities.

Neuman has headed the School of Arts and Architecture, home to 1,300 students and 100 faculty members, since 1996. As Dean, he provides overall leadership for the School’s academic programs, and for the public programs under the UCLArts umbrella: the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History; the UCLA Hammer Museum, which houses the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and oversees the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden; and UCLA Performing Arts. He has recruited outstanding scholars to the faculty, assembled a strong Board of Visitors, and nurtured the School’s community-outreach programs. He also has garnered generous philanthropic support that is enabling, among other vital projects, the complete renovation of the buildings dedicated to the visual arts (the Edythe and Eli Broad Art Center) and World Arts and Cultures (Glorya Kaufman Hall).

Neuman is a distinguished scholar in his field of ethnomusicology, specializing in the musical traditions of India. Proficient on the sarangi, a bowed instrument of India, Neuman has conducted fieldwork in India for the past three decades. He has written and co-edited two books and published numerous articles.

Neuman studied anthropology at the University of Illinois, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees, the latter “with distinction.� He joined UCLA in 1994 as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology and received his permanent appointment as Professor of Ethnomusicology in 1995. Before coming to UCLA, he directed the University of Washington School of Music for 10 years.