Members

• Alan Jackman, Co-Chair
• Yin Yeh, Co-Chair
   

Committee Objectives

The primary objective of the Video Records Committee is to record for posterity, interviews of emeriti and distinguished retired members of the UC Davis community, thus providing a historical record of the individual’s career particularly as it relates to the history of the campus and its academic units.

The committee's activities include:

• Identifying and contacting individuals as they retire to enlist them for an interview;
• Scheduling and recording their interviews;
• Revisiting those who earlier did not record interviews with the objective of as complete a coverage of Emeriti and distinguished Retirees as is possible;
• Producing, distributing, archiving their interviews in various appropriate video formats.and managing records of these archives;
• Maintaining and managing the video facilities and equipment.

Committee composition

The Committee shall consist of either a Chair or Co-chairs and an unspecified number of committee members as determined by the Chair/Co-chairs. It serves the mission of this Committee to have a large number of members who can provide a broad range of contacts across the campus community and from the many academic units on the campus. It is broken up into two subcommittees.

The larger committee is responsible for working with departments, schools and other academic units to identify and enlist interviewees.

A smaller subcommittee is responsible for the operations of the video studio and producing video media suitable for distributing and archiving the recorded interviews.

Committee Report

      UCDEA, under the leadership of Alan Jackman, continued its extraordinary project, begun in 1993, of video-taping conversations with UCD emeriti to record the history of UCD. Over the past 30 years, the Video Records Committee has recorded 524 emeriti and posted their videos on the UCDEA webpage. Six of those videos were conducted in the summer of 2023. The committee now has 12 members. It is a stunning contribution to UC Davis and our emeriti.

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