Roughly five months after he took the job, Dr. Julio Frenk was officially inaugurated as UCLA ‘s chancellor Thursday, acknowledging that institutes of higher learning in the United States are facing a deteriorating relationship with the federal government and a crisis of public trust.

Speaking to a packed house of faculty, family and local dignitaries at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Frenk also outlined his vision for the university’s future and expressed hope for unity on a campus that has been rocked over the past year due to a mass pro-Palestinian protest that led to dozens of arrests in a coordinated law enforcement raid, and accusations of anti-Semitism for allowing the protesters to proliferate on the campus.

“I stand today before you with a deep sense of gratitude and responsibility fo

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