BREAKING: University of Miami President Julio Frenk Leaving Miami to Become UCLA Chancellor
University of Miami may be stuck in the ACC…for now…but its soon-to-be former President is heading to the Big Ten. Per multiple reports, the University of California regents have named University of Miami President Julio Frenk as the next chancellor of UCLA beginning in January 2025.
As was the case for Miami when Frenk joined in 2016, he will be the first Latino to lead that institution.
Frenk was hired by the University of Miami on the strength of his health and administration credentials.
He was previously Mexico’s Minister of Health, and served as the dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health just prior to being hired by Miami.
With his background, one of Frenk’s most significant accomplishments as UM President was to turn UHealth, the University of Miami hospital system, into a money printing machine (12th highest revenue among nonprofit universities).
From a sports perspective, Frenk may be most remembered for his 2021 decision to fire then Athletic Director Blake James and then head football coach Manny Diaz, and to hire away Dan Radakovich from Clemson and Mario Cristobal from Oregon as UM’s new athletic director and head football coach, respectively.
Both came at a high price tag, much more than Miami historically was willing to spend on athletic department leadership.
In order to afford Radakovich and Cristobal, Frenk reportedly dipped into UHealth profits to fund the new hires.
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