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UC Riverside Chancellor Goes on 'Undercover Boss' in May

Kris Lovekin | April 25, 2011

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Chancellor White before his transformation

The mission was impossible. Take the head of a public research university and hide him in plain sight for a week. But the University of California, Riverside accomplished it at the request of the hit CBS reality show “Undercover Boss.”

Chancellor Timothy P. White, who has served as UC Riverside’s highly-visible chief executive for the past three years, crops his hair short and dons a mustache, false teeth, and earring in a show that lets him take on the everyday work of the students, staff and faculty at the 20,000-student campus. In the process, he said, he was changed as a chancellor.

This is the first time a university campus has ever been featured on the Emmy-nominated show. The UCR episode will be the season finale, airing in prime time at 9 p.m. Sunday, May 1 on CBS.

“Seeing the campus from the inside out only strengthened my respect for the way a public research university changes lives and creates value every day,” White said. “I was moved and changed as a person and as a leader by this very intense examination of how the place works from the ground level. My decisions as a chancellor will be more thoughtful because of this experience.”

Chancellor White
One of White's jobs undercover: track coach.



















UCR Media Contact: Kris Lovekin (951) 827-2495 kris.lovekin@ucr.edu

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