On leave from Berkeley, SEMM Professor Armen Der Kiureghian guides the American University of Armenia as its new president.
Aimée Dorr, UC's provost, is a trustee of the American University of Armenia, which opened to undergraduates for the first time last year.
Eight other UC professors, deans, finance executives and retired leaders and academics also sit on AUA's 22-member Board of Trustees. Karl Pister, former chancellor of UC Santa Cruz and a CEE emeritus professor, is one of them. Larry Pitts, ex-UC provost, is Board chair - a role retiring UC provosts agree to take on.
See UC helps build resources, revenue at private Armenian university, (San Francisco Chronicle)