Founding faculty member and second chancellor at UC Irvine never lost interest in learning.

Board eyes ways to involve Mexican and American private sectors, as well as measuring success of student and faculty exchanges, research collaborations and scholarly activities.

Chancellor Wilcox: Excellence, access and diversity can be delivered at one time.

Funding from six foundations will help the University Innovation Alliance share programs around the nation.

Departing leader is lauded for upholding the highest ideals of a university education.

Chancellor Yang's comments address events in wake of deadly rampage.

UC's five academic medical centers are at an inflection point, according to Dr. Sam Hawgood, UC San Francisco interim chancellor and medical school dean.

Chancellor Wilcox calls for increased globalization, review of campus planning for future growth, and creation of new facilities.

Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox will be formally invested by UC President Janet Napolitano.

France Córdova, UC Riverside chancellor from 2002-07, will serve a six-year term.

Renowned pediatrician and medical school dean Sam Hawgood has taken over as interim chancellor of UC San Francisco following Susan Desmond-Hellmann's departure.

President Napolitano, chancellors from Berkeley, Merced and San Diego join university leaders from across the nation to brainstorm ways how higher education can better serve less-advantaged students.