Dr. Hawkins has served in a variety of administrative capacities since
joining UCLA in 1973. He is currently the Chair of the Division of
Social Sciences and Comparative Education in the Graduate School of
Education. In 2002 he was appointed Director of a new research center
at UCLA, the Center
for International and Development Education (CIDE). CIDE is focused
on educational change and development and is a partner with the University
of California Education Abroad Program in a project to map higher
educational change worldwide. The Center is also engaged in work with
various NGO’s such as Relief
International specifically on educational reconstruction in Afghanistan.
From
1988 to 1999 he served as Dean of UCLA’s International
Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP) overseeing thirteen research
centers and several outreach programs. These included regional study
centers on Africa, China, Japan, Korea, the Pacific Rim, Latin America,
the Near and Middle East, Western Europe and Russia, East Asia, and
on International Relations, and over twenty exchange and overseas
programs. ISOP is also responsible for liaison with extramural agencies
- the Federal government, other institutions of higher education,
learned societies, private foundations, and community organizations
- which have activities and interests in international and foreign
area studies.
From
1978 to 1985 he served as Vice Chair and later Chair of the Department
of Education in the Graduate School of Education. The Graduate School
of Education at that time was a one-department school. As such it
was organized into three areas (Social and Philosophical Studies in
Education; Educational Psychology, and Organizational and Administrative
Studies in Education) containing twelve specializations. The chair
had responsibilities for academic and all departmental matters. These
responsibilities include academic personnel actions for a faculty
of 60 positions -- faculty recruitment, retention, termination, merit
advances, fourth year appraisals, promotions to tenure and full professor,
and off-scale promotions. Other faculty responsibilities related to
the Visiting Scholar and Post Doctoral programs and temporary academic
personnel. The Chair was responsible for academic curricular matters,
faculty teaching assignments, and overseeing course development and
approval.
Finally,
from 1975 to 1978 he served as Director of the Curriculum Inquiry
Center, a research center in the Graduate School of Education. The
Center developed innovative curricular materials principally for international
studies and initiated assessment and evaluation materials.
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