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Michael Vincent Drake (born July 9, 1950) is an American
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and
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who is the 21st president of the
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. From 2014 to June 2020, he was the 15th president of
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. From 2005 to 2014, he was the chancellor of the
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and prior to that served as vice president for health affairs for the
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system.


Early life and education

Michael V. Drake was born in
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and raised in
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, and
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. He is the son of a doctor and a social worker. His mother graduated from East High School in
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, before attending college in Baltimore. The family lived in Baltimore,
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,
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, and
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before settling in
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. He graduated from
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at
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,
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in 1967. During college summers in the early 1970s, he worked at the original Tower Records. Drake attended Sacramento City College from 1967 to 1969. He received a
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from
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in 1974 and a
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and
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from the
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in 1975. He completed an
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at Harvard Business School in 2005.


Career

Drake spent more than two decades on the faculty of the UCSF School of Medicine, ultimately becoming the Steven P. Shearing Professor of Ophthalmology and senior associate dean. He then served for five years as vice president for health affairs for the University of California system. From July 2005 to June 2014, Drake served as chancellor of the
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. He also served as a Professor of
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(School of Medicine) and Education (School of Education).


University of California, Irvine chancellorship

In 2005, Drake was appointed as the fifth chancellor of the
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(UCI). He officially began his term on July 1, 2005. His annual $350,000 salary remained unchanged from his previous position at the Office of the President. As of 2010 he earned $374,969.32.


Ohio State University presidency

On January 30, 2014, the
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Board of Trustees named Drake as the 15th president of Ohio State University. He began his tenure at the university on June 30, 2014. At the time of his appointment, he was part of the
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, the
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, and the board of directors of
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. In March 2015, Drake was appointed to the
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board. In November 2019, the university announced that Drake would retire in 2020.


University of California presidency

On July 7, 2020, Drake was selected as the 21st president of the University of California system, making him the first Black president in UC's 152-year history.


Personal life

Drake is married to Brenda Drake. An alumna of
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and Berkeley Law, Brenda Drake is an attorney and has served as a director or trustee of organizations focused on education, international health, finance, civil rights and the arts, including the National Urban League, City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco,
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and Golden Gate Bank. She is a director emerita and former board chair of Engender Health Inc., an international women’s health organization, and is currently a trustee of the
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. Drake and his wife have two adult sons and four grandchildren. Drake's first job was working at Tower Records. He is quoted as saying he has a "passion for music, which is still a hobby today". In 2015, Drake was appointed to the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. He has had a lifelong interest in music (notably rock and jazz), plays guitar, and teaches an undergraduate course on the music of the civil rights movement.


Philanthropy

In 2017, Dr. Drake led the establishment of the Ohio State Tuition Guarantee, which freezes tuition, mandatory fees, housing and dining for four years for incoming, in-state freshmen. He also increased the value of Ohio State Land Grant Opportunity Scholarships to cover the full cost of attendance while doubling the size of the program in 2018.


Professional organizations

* Association of American Universities * American Talent Initiative *
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*
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* University Innovation Alliance *
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* American Academy of Arts & Sciences * The Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine *
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* Big West Athletic Conference *
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* Association of Academic Health Centers *
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Awards and honors

* University of California Presidential Medal * In 2017, he and his wife, Brenda, were awarded the 10th Annual King Arts Legends & Legacies Award as well as the University of California-Irvine Medal, joining past honorees ranging from U.S. presidents to Ella Fitzgerald. * Member of the Columbus Partnership * Burbridge Award for Public Service * Asbury Award (clinical science) * Michael J. Hogan Award (laboratory science)


Controversies


Chemerinsky firing and rehiring

Drake's first major firing scandal was to fire the Dean of the
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,
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. After Chemerinsky signed a contract on September 4, 2007, Drake rescinded the offer because he felt the law professor's commentaries were "polarizing"; Drake claimed the decision was his own and not the subject of any outside influence. The action was criticized by both liberal and conservative scholars who felt it hindered the academic mission of the law school and violated principles of
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. Few believed Drake's claims that it was not the result of outside influence. The issue was the subject of an
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in ''
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'' on September 14, 2007. Details emerged revealing that UCI had received criticism on the hire from the California Supreme Court's then-Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who criticized Chemerinsky's grasp of death penalty appeals, as well as a group of prominent local
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who wanted to stop the appointment, including Los Angeles County Supervisor
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. Drake traveled over a weekend to meet with Chemerinsky in Durham, North Carolina, where Chemerinsky was a professor at the Duke University School of Law at the time, and the two reached an agreement. On September 17, Chemerinsky issued a joint press release with Drake indicating that Chemerinsky would head the UCI law school. On September 20, 2007, Chemerinsky's hire was formally approved by the Regents of the University of California. In 2014, Chemerinsky said that he and Drake had since reconciled.


Waters firing

Drake fired Ohio State marching band director
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on July 24, 2014, after a university investigation found that the band's "sexualized culture" was "inconsistent with the University's values and
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requirements". The university stated that there were "serious cultural issues and an environment conducive to sexual harassment within the Marching Band", and that the band director "was aware or reasonably should have known about" it. Waters sued for reinstatement, accusing the university, Drake, and a provost of discriminating against him by disciplining him differently than a female employee and denying him
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. Drake has stood by his decision to terminate Waters as marching band director. As of January 2015, the university had spent nearly $1 million in defense of the decision and subsequent actions.


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