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The University of California system president, Dr. Michael V. Drake, will step down at the end of the 2024–25 academic year after five years on the job, UC officials announced Wednesday.
Drake, age 74, has had a 50-year career in higher education, a UC press release noted.
“It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as president of the University of California these past several years, and I am immensely proud of what the UC community has accomplished,” Drake said in the resignation announcement. “At every turn, I have sought to listen to those I served, to uphold our shared UC values, and to do all I could to leave this institution in better shape than it was before. I’m proud to see the University continuing to make a positive impact on the lives of countless Californians through research, teaching, and public service.”
Drake has long-standing ties to the UC system where he worked as an ophthalmology professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine before climbing the administrative ranks. Drake served as the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, from 2005 to 2014 and then as the president of Ohio State University from 2014 until 2020 before he was hired away to lead the UC system, becoming the first Black president in its history.
