Founding FacultyThis list includes all faculty and academic administrators who were present when UCI opened for classes on October 4, 1965. Click on Name, Title, or School/Discipline Heading to sort on that column. | |||
| Name | Title | School or Discipline | |
| Adams, Hazard | Chair | English | |
| Adams, John F. | Faculty Member | English | |
| Aldrich, Daniel G. | Chancellor | Administration | |
| Allard, Maurice | Faculty Member | Music | |
| Appel, Howard A. | Faculty Member | French | |
| Archibald, Kathleen | Faculty Member | Sociology | |
| Babb, Howard S. | Faculty Member | English | |
| Baisden, Richard N. | Director | Extension | |
| Balch, Richard L. | Vice Chancellor Student Affairs | Administration | |
| Bane, Jr., Gilbert | Faculty Member | Population and Environmental Biology | |
| Barrutia, Richard | Faculty Member | Foreign Languages | |
| Bell, Duran | Faculty Member | Economics | |
| Bell, Ingeborg Powell | Faculty Member | Sociology | |
| Birnbaum, Isabel | Faculty Member | Psychology | |
| Boughey, Arthur | Chair | Population and Environmental Biology | |
| Boyd, James | Faculty Member | Anthropology | |
| Brant, David | Faculty Member | Chemistry | |
| Braunstein, Myron | Faculty Member | Psychology | |
| Brown, Edward | Faculty Member | English | |
| Bunker, Don | Faculty Member | Chemistry | |
| Campbell, Richard | Faculty Member | Organismic Biology | |
| Caserio, Marjorie | Faculty Member | Chemistry | |
| Cohen, Robert | Faculty Member | Drama | |
| Coplans, John Rivers | Faculty Member | Art | |
| Cox, L.E. | Vice Chancellor Business and Finance | Administration | |
| Crawford, Wayne | Chair | Athletics | |
| DeLap, Tony | Faculty Member | Art | |
| Dennett, Daniel | Faculty Member | Philosophy | |
| Feldman, Julian | Faculty Member | Social Sciences (Division of) | |
| Fielding, Gordon | Faculty Member | Geography | |
| Foley, Barbara | Faculty Member | Sociology | |
| Ford, Kenneth | Chair | Physics | |
| Forester, Theodore | Faculty Member | Physics | |
| Frizler, Paul | Faculty Member | English | |
| Froman, Lewis | Faculty Member | Political Science | |
| Garrison, Clayton | Dean | Fine Arts (Division of) | |
| Gelbaum, Bernard | Chair | Mathematics | |
| Gerard, Ralph W. | Dean | Graduate Studies | |
| Goertz, Richard | Faculty Member | Spanish | |
| Gross, Harvey | Faculty Member | English | |
| Hagan, Kenneth | Faculty Member | History | |
| Hall, James B. | Faculty Member | English | |
| Hart, Joe Truman | Faculty Member | Psychology | |
| Hartwell, Leland | Faculty Member | Biochemistry | |
| Heiney, Donald | Faculty Member | English | |
| Hille, C. Einar | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Holland, John | Chair | Molecular and Cell Biology | |
| Huddleston, John | Faculty Member | English | |
| Irwin, Albert | Faculty Member | Physical Education | |
| Isaacs, David | Faculty Member | Electrical Engineering | |
| Jacobson, John | Faculty Member | History | |
| Kalisch, Gerhard | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Kaplan, Donald | Faculty Member | Organismic Biology | |
| Kassouf, Sheen | Faculty Member | Economics | |
| Kearns, James | Faculty Member | Psychology | |
| Krassner, Stuart | Faculty Member | Biological Sciences (Division of) | |
| Laborde, Alice | Faculty Member | French | |
| Lawson, Richard Alan | Faculty Member | History | |
| Lebow, Arnold | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Lee, Edward K.C. | Faculty Member | Chemistry | |
| Lindberg, John | Faculty Member | German | |
| Loring, Eugene | Chair | Dance | |
| Maltz, Robert | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Maradudin, Alexei | Faculty Member | Physics | |
| March, James | Dean | Social Sciences (Division of) | |
| Marder, Arthur | Faculty Member | History | |
| McCarty, George | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| McCulloch, Samuel | Dean | Humanities (Division of) | |
| McGaugh, James | Chair | Psychobiology | |
| McLaughlin, Calvin | Faculty Member | Biochemistry | |
| McMichael, James | Faculty Member | English | |
| Mehta, Mahli | Faculty Member | Music | |
| Melden, A.I. | Chair | Philosophy | |
| Menton, Seymour | Chair | Foreign Languages | |
| Meyer, Henry Cord | Chair | History | |
| Miller, Alan | Faculty Member | Psychology | |
| Moore, Harold | Faculty Member | Chemistry | |
| Nelson, Keith | Faculty Member | History | |
| Neubauer, Deane | Faculty Member | Political Science | |
| Olin, Spencer | Faculty Member | History | |
| Pellam, John | Faculty Member | Physics | |
| Peltason, Jack W. | Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs | Administration | |
| Pelters, Wilm | Faculty Member | German | |
| Pierce, Conway | Assistant to Chancellor | Physical Sciences | |
| Radov, Karl | Faculty Member | Economics | |
| Reck, Vera | Faculty Member | Russian | |
| Reines, Frederick | Dean | Physical Sciences (Division of) | |
| Rico, Lucien Antoine | Faculty Member | French | |
| Rogers, Daniel | Faculty Member | Physical Education | |
| Rosenthal, Howard | Faculty Member | Political Science | |
| Rowland, F. Sherwood | Chair | Chemistry | |
| Russo, Bernard | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Saunders, Robert Mallough | Dean | Engineering (School of) | |
| Schell, Edgar | Faculty Member | English | |
| Schinzinger, Roland | Faculty Member | Electrical Engineering | |
| Shapiro, Martin | Faculty Member | Political Science | |
| Shapiro, Stephen | Faculty Member | English | |
| Shaw, Gordon | Faculty Member | Physics | |
| Slim, H. Colin | Chair | Music | |
| Smith, John E. | University Librarian | Library | |
| Smoke, William | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Snyder, Richard C. | Dean | Administration (Graduate School of) | |
| Soderstrom, Stanley | Faculty Member | Philosophy | |
| Sorenson, Otto Maurice | Faculty Member | German | |
| Stark, Thomas | Faculty Member | Physics | |
| Steinhaus, Edward | Dean | Biological Sciences (Division of) | |
| Stephens, Grover | Chair | Organismic Biology | |
| Taft, Robert | Faculty Member | Chemistry | |
| Thomason, Robert | Faculty Member | Library | |
| Thornton, Raymond | Faculty Member | Physical Education | |
| Thorpe, Edward | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |
| Tonge, Jr., Fred | Faculty Member | Administration (Graduate School of) | |
| Triplett, Richard | Faculty Member | Drama | |
| Villegas, Juan | Faculty Member | Spanish | |
| Wagner, Roger | Faculty Member | Music | |
| Wagner, William | Faculty Member | Physics | |
| Weicher, John | Faculty Member | Economics | |
| Weinberger, Norman | Faculty Member | Psychobiology | |
| Whalen, Richard | Faculty Member | Psychobiology | |
| Whittaker, Robert | Faculty Member | Biological Sciences (Division of) | |
| Wlecke, Albert | Faculty Member | English | |
| Woolfolk, Clifford | Faculty Member | Microbiology | |
| Wulff, Daniel | Faculty Member | Biochemistry | |
| Yeh, James | Faculty Member | Mathematics | |