UC Irvine named Michael Gottfredson executive vice chancellor, the second-highest administrative position at the university. His term begins July 17, pending approval by the UC Board of Regents.
Gottfredson, former vice president of undergraduate education at the University of Arizona, succeeds William Lillyman, who is retiring after 28 years with the university.
As executive vice chancellor, Gottfredson will be the chief academic and budget officer, principal advisor to the chancellor and overseer of academic affairs, student affairs, research and graduate studies and administrative and business services.
Gottfredson is a UC Davis graduate and joined the University of Arizona as an associate professor in 1985. Prior to teaching in Arizona, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the State University of New York, Albany. His teaching specialty is crime and the criminal justice system. He also is a scholar of Goethe and of German Romanticism.
He is married to Karol, a fifth-grade school teacher. They have two grown children, Katherine and Bryan.
