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 for the o

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