Florencia Raquel Aranovich ’90

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Few students have shown as much solid leadership ability or effected as many long-term changes at UCLA as Florencia Aranovich. Deeply committed to helping others, Aranovich has devoted much of her energy to the problems of student retention throughout the University of California system. In her position as academic affairs commissioner, Aranovich organized the UCLA Conference on Undergraduate Student Retention, which produced a strategy handbook that was distributed to administrators, faculty and student leaders. She also founded the Women’s Coalition, a special interest group that gives undergraduate women the opportunity to influence the direction of student representation.

Steadfast in advocating her beliefs, Aranovich holds ideals of equality for all members of society, with particular emphasis on the status of women. Her interdisciplinary major in women’s studies put her creative talents to work designing her own personal study projects; her extensive research on battered women of color in Los Angeles demonstrates her ability to perform at the highest academic level. In addition to her other positions of leadership, Aranovich served on the ASUCLA Board of Directors, the Undergraduate Students Association Council and as a student representative on the Academic Senate committee on educational policy.

Aranovich’s dedicated work has made UCLA a better place for the generation of students who will follow her. She is truly a young woman of vision, energy and action.