Dennis Assanis, former president of the University of Delaware, has been appointed as the sixth chancellor of UC Santa Barbara. He will assume the role on Sept. 1.
Assanis earned three master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Photo Courtesy of the University of Delaware
Earlier today, the University of California Board of Regents approved Assanis as the next chancellor of the university. According to the announcement, he served as the president of the University of Delaware (UD) since 2016 and stepped down in June.
“I am truly honored and thrilled to serve as the next chancellor of UC Santa Barbara,” Assanis said in the announcement. “I am particularly excited about UC Santa Barbara’s exceptional academic reputation, amazing students and boundless potential to be recognized among the top public universities, building on the celebrated achievements of its distinguished faculty and dedicated staff.”
According to the announcement, Assanis spearheaded research at UD, increasing total research expenditures from $176 million in 2016 to $466 million in 2024. Assanis also oversaw the creation of UD’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) campus.
In 2022, former President Joe Biden appointed Assanis to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The advisory group makes policy recommendations to the administration relating to science and technology and how it affects the economy, education, public health and other sectors.
“Dr. Assanis is the right person to lead UC Santa Barbara into the future,” UC President Michael V. Drake said in the announcement. “His deep understanding of the power of interdisciplinary work combined with his energy, insight and strategic vision will blend perfectly with the excellence of UC Santa Barbara students, faculty and staff as they address the world’s most urgent challenges.”
At UD, Assanis introduced the First State Promise program, which awards financial packages to freshmen with a family income of less than $35,000, covering most up-front costs including tuition, student fees, housing and food expenses. Additionally, students with a family income between $35,000 and $75,000 are eligible for financial aid that covers tuition and mandatory fees.
Upon assuming his role as chancellor, Assanis will receive a salary of $880,000. During his final year, former chancellor Henry T. Yang received a salary of $820,000 after the Board of Regents voted last fall to significantly increase compensation for the UC chancellors and president.
Assanis earned his bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from Newcastle University in England and has three master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in naval architecture and marine engineering, mechanical engineering and management. Additionally, he earned a doctorate from MIT in power and propulsion.
Currently, David Marshall, former executive vice chancellor at UCSB, is serving as the interim chancellor. Henry T. Yang stepped down on July 14, bringing his 31-year tenure to a close.
“Fostering a culture of innovation, academic excellence and student success has been my core focus as a public university leader. My wife, Eleni, and I are excited to join the vibrant and welcoming Santa Barbara community,” Assanis concluded.
You are not qualified Assanis and you must refuse the position. You don’t understand the nature of UCSB Mafia. You are unwilling to confront UCSB mafia. You haven’t any vision and so you will do nothing about the housing crunch, nothing about the big stink, nothing about UCSB Mafia unaccountable criminal activity, nothing about reduction of tuition, increase in enrollment, increased quality and increased profit. You are a dinosaur dedicated to preserving the old 17th Century bricks and mortar model of academia. Stay away. The moment you touch UCSB, you become UCSB Mafia. You should have done your homework.
Assanis, don’t forget. UCSB is the Center of Evil in the Universe today. No university in the history of the world has betrayed the human species and Truth more than UCSB. UCSB is an unaccountable criminal mafia organization. Questions: Are you a Jew? Are you a Zionist? Are you a Citizen of the United States? Do you have dual citizenship with any other country? If so, which one? Who do you think did 9-11? Do you think there should be an Independent 9-11 Investigation? Do you think an investigation of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty should be established?… Read more »
Assanis, let me help you out. It’s obvious you did little homework so here’s a brief review of your predecessor’s tenure. Chancellor-punk Henry Yang was a full-blown UCSB Mafia tool. I suggest you back out. The money isn’t worth it. UCSB Mafia is a continuing horror show and you don’t have what it takes to fight them. There’s only one person in the world qualified to be UCSB Chancellor and that’s me. I’m the only person to lock horns with UCSB Mafia and I’m the only person they fear. If UCSB Mafia had not been successful in intimidating local UCSB… Read more »
I forgot this one. A UCSB housing construction site got arsoned. https://www.independent.com/2014/07/04/ucsb-housing-project-destroyed-by-fire/ Much bad happened at UCSB in 2014 and I think it was synchronistic. I had been convicted of felonious vandalism on December 10,2013 for breaking a $600 UCSB Mafia window after being denied trial and my compulsory process right contained in the 6th Amendment and I think the stuff that happened in 2014 was a synchronistic result of the UCSB Mafia injustice delivered to me. GOD was on my side and GOD was angry. UCSB-related synchronicity had already spooked me. Someone massacred her coworkers at the Goleta postal… Read more »
Here’s some other stories about unaccountable UCSB Mafia. Think hard before coming here. UCSB Freshman Liz Hamel gets murdered and UCSB Mafia police haven’t a clue. Distraught family forced to conduct investigation. https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/liz-hamel-mysterious-death-uc-santa-barbara-20370331.php The moral integrity of many UCSB Mafia students matches the moral integrity of UCSB Mafia itself. It’s not an honorable place for honorable people unless you’re coming to terminate, investigate and prosecute. https://dailynexus.com/2023-03-03/former-ucsb-student-jailed-charged-with-26-counts-of-unlawful-electronic-peeping/ It continues to bewilder me that any parents would consent to their son or daughter attending UCSB. It isn’t safe. https://dailynexus.com/2024-02-22/three-individuals-charged-with-battery-assault-and-conspiracy-felonies/ The quality of UCSB students is not high even though UCSB Mafia continually… Read more »
all you have to say is we hired you shows the lowest quality people possible
Actually, at the time I was promoted, it was the fastest reclassification ever for a UCSB staff employee. Also, after my departure, they had to replace me with two engineers. My termination had nothing to do with my quality of work.
I know the truth can be painful, but even women like you are capable of confronting it. You should try.
I didnt say the work i said the quality of person. and you are a shit stain on the history of UCSB. A horrible unstable person a complete POS
That’s a good question anon. I’ve often been asked about why I was terminated while my brain-damaged (confirmed by MRI) hostile coworker (he got into one too many fist fights in I.V. and got knocked to the curb bruising his brain) wasn’t terminated after threatening me twice, assaulting me once and announcing that he threw away all of the lab boxcutters on the morning of September 12, 2001 because he thought I would use them to cut everyone’s throats. (I’m not making this stuff up) After I was terminated they isolated him where he could work alone so he wouldn’t… Read more »
wow what a disturbed and completely false narrative. I didnt even ask a question which is how your diatribe or part of your manifesto begins
Anon, one of the other most frequent questions asked me about New California which was my radical but doable engineering proposal submitted during the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall Election goes something like this: You propose New California where everyone is accommodated with a quarter-acre birth-endowment of territory capable of extracting the essentials of survival from its equatorial location floating on the Eastern Pacific Ocean where there are no hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, etc and all islands are interlinked with each other and the perimeter free enterprise zone with a high-speed transportation matrix but what will prevent… Read more »
No one is asking you anything thing its only the voices in your head – get help
Everyone please google Neil Baker to see how he was banned from campus and was banned from even contacting campus for years.
I did as you requested and goggled “Neil Baker banned from UCSB.” I read many of the articles that popped up and it brought back memories. It certainly wasn’t funny then but I can laugh at it now. The libel, disinformation and propaganda caused much hardship and financial stress in my life. It still does. I get social security but after decades of UCSB Mafia blacklisting that has caused unemployability and underemployability, it isn’t much. I spent six years in the Navy and one year working after the Navy to afford college and then I slogged through four years to… Read more »
Wow whata crazy rant. You still need help with your delusions.
What causes you to pop up every few years? What triggers the extra crazy in you?
Look lady, you’re entitled to your opinion. I test the censors periodically. I’m as surprised as you that the Daily Nexus has stopped censoring me. I attribute it to courage of the new management of the Daily Nexus. I’m thinking former UCSB Mafia Chancellor-punk Yang had the grip on them and now he’s gone. Listen to yourself; you’re so desperate to label me crazy when I’m probably one of the most psychologically evaluated people and psychologically healthy people associated with UCSB. Like I’ve described, I passed a court-ordered evaluation by three shrinks and was unanimously judged not to be mentally… Read more »
Ranting and raving like a lunatic. Its sad please get help.
Okay Karen
Okay felon
Yes, I’m a convicted felon. I was convicted of felonious vandalism for my August 2013 offense of nonviolently breaking one $600 UCSB Mafia window after having been driven to destitution with nothing to lose after ten years of defamation and blacklisting by unaccountable criminal UCSB Mafia. My previous most serious violation of the law had been a speeding ticket in Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1996. 50 in a 35 on Sunday morning at 6am on an empty Trinity Drive in front of the police station. I was zoned out thinking about a cathodic arc source for a plasma source… Read more »
BC you are a psycho who made threats and their coworkers scared.So dumb and lacking awareness please get more help you NEED it
Nope. All bogus charges dismissed, in violation of the 6th Amendment, a day before the trial because unaccountable criminal UCSB mafia knew they would lose and be publicly exposed in court as unaccountable criminal thug liars. UCSB owes me $50 million. I suggest they pay pronto.
Insane rambling nonsense. Someone needs a welfare check
My soul is healthy and strong. Maybe it’s you that needs the welfare check. Maybe you’re too stupid or afraid to make sense of it.
You are a felon nothing was dismissed no one owes you anything . So dumb and crazy
No one owes me anything but UCSB Mafia owes me $50 million. If I were them, I wouldn’t dawdle. Exposure to a 4-year hostile work environment including threats and an assault by a known brain-damaged (confirmed by MRI) hostile UCSB Mafia coworker, mobbing followed by hostile termination, employment sabotage, blacklisting, defamation that rendered me unemployable, pressing false charges that were later dismissed a day before trial, violation of 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th Amendment rights, harassment, outrageous penalty for a $600 window nonviolently broken as a first offense after being driven to financial destitution by UCSB Mafia criminal activity. UCSB… Read more »
None of that is true or correct it is all delusions in your head. You are disturbed get help. You are owed nothing and if anything you owe most to society and should be locked up for longer for everyone safety in an asylum
Everyone wants to be Devil’s Advocate and never Angel’s Advocate so I’ve had your question about tsunamis at New California before. Just like no typhoons or hurricanes at New California because of its equatorial Eastern Pacific location between Galapagos and Jarvis Island, no floods because everything is floating, no forest fires, no blizzards, no heat waves, no tornadoes, no mosquitoes, etc, there would never be any effects from tsunamis either because New California is floating with no connection to land. It’s like a big boat far out to sea where tsunami waves would harmlessly pass by. Land is not the… Read more »
FOcus try and stay on a single topic your mental illness is showing thru your tangential rants and raving
I can smell a republitard from a mile a way. This man probably is adicted to FoxNews and makes $500,00 per year without paying his fare shair of taxxes. We must stand up and demand a democrat, someone who is intellugint and NEVER watches the right wing FAEK NEWS
I can smell a republitard from a mile a way. This man probably is adicted to FoxNews and makes $500,00 per year without paying his fare shair of taxxes. We must stand up and demand a democrat, someone who is intellugint and NEVER watches the right wing FAEK NEWS
nice
I’ve got two more questions for you Assanis.
If the UCSB Chancellor job paid only $80,000 plus free house and other benefits, would you have applied?
Your salary as President of the University of Delaware is reported to have been $1.5 million. Why did you terminate your UD contract and agree to a pay cut?
More questions for Assanis: Do you think the Holocaust is a hoax? Do you think the United States went to the moon and that twelve American astronauts walked on the moon? Do you think NASA should prove before independent Citizen witnesses an EVA spacesuit in a vacuum chamber on Earth at 1 microtorr? Why do you think they refuse? You’re a Mechanical Engineer. What mode of heat transfer do you think is represented by an EVA spacesuit ice sublimator cooling system? Do you think the drug addicted criminal George Floyd was murdered or do you think he died of a… Read more »
Assanis, as you’re a Mechanical Engineer, I also request that you perform an energy balance for the alleged Reinhard extermination camps including Treblinka where 1.27 million Jews were allegedly gassed, buried and then dug up to be burned on big grills improvised from rail tracks over fire pits fueled with wood. How many cords of wood do your calculations say are required? I want to compare your answer with mine and then I think we can both have a good laugh.
You’re loaded dude. Why whore more for Zionist-controlled criminal UCSB Mafia?
What a crazy delusional psycho. Neil Baker a stupid crazy delusional coward. You make sure everyone can see what a POS your parents raised and how bad you are
Let me give you some advice little girl. Whatever you do, don’t even think about investigating 9-11 and if anyone asks, tell them the attack on the USS Liberty was an accident. And just point and shout “ANTI-SEMITE! or NAZI!” at anyone that dares question the holocaust. Repeat it over and over and over again: 9-11 was 19 Arabs with boxcutters, 9-11 was 19 Arabs with boxcutters, 9-11 was 19 Arabs with boxcutters, 9-11 was 19 Arabs with boxcutters, 9-11 was 19 Arabs with boxcutters, etc.
Wow you are really going down hill and falling apart -please go back on the meds and get psych help. It is obvious to everyone that you desperately need it
I’ve never been on psych meds and I always encourage those on them to wean off of them. Good diet and regular exercise are far superior. Flush the pills and take control of your mind. What psych meds are you on? Are you receiving therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is highly effective. I was originally prescribed CBT to break me of my belief that 9-11 was a Zionist job, that the Holocaust was a hoax and that most of the NASA space program was a hoax but I quickly red-pilled the shrinks and the rule became that we couldn’t talk… Read more »
you just keep repeating the same delusions its sad and pathetic. move on or keep demonstrating your mental illness here constantly for all to see
I’m ready to move on. I’ve been ready to move on for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, UCSB Mafia blacklisting and defamation is still working to destroy my life. I’m still unemployable and near-destitute as a result of unaccountable UCSB Mafia criminal activity. I’ll move on when UCSB Mafia pays me the $50 million they owe me. It would be the best and wisest money they ever spent. They shouldn’t dawdle.
I understand your hate for people at UCSB, but why let it drive you to get into trouble over them? They’re not worth it. The best thing you can do is live the rest of your life well because those who tried to destroy you don’t want that one thing the most. I went to UCSB and had a horrible time because of a few professors that did a poor job. They were not only boring, they had teacher assistants grading my papers and giving me bad grades. I went to the student help center and had my papers reviewed… Read more »
Hey UC this is just the beginning. You miss your $200 million UCLA? Well it’s time for you to dip into your endowment and start paying for things yourselves.
Trump administration reportedly suspends $200m in grants to UCLAhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-suspends-ucla-funding-grants
It’s a Zionist thing dude. Trump is a Zionist whore. I always said that it mattered not who got elected because it would either be the Zionist Trump or the Zionist Jeff Zients who was the ZOG President during the Biden administration. Columbia got the Zionist treatment and now UCLA. Unaccountable criminal UCSB Mafia has always sucked the cock of Zionism so I doubt they’ll suffer any near-term adverse consequences.
The best moment of my life was nonviolently breaking that UCSB Mafia window demanding the long-overdue and still-imperative Independent 9-11 Investigation. I wouldn’t change that for anything. It was an incredible rush. I was a happy inmate for 4 months. I had done the right thing when nobody else had the guts to do so. I had nothing to lose because of UCSB Mafia criminal activity against me and it was interesting to observe UCSB Mafia suffer GOD’s wrath. All of the synchronistic damage inflicted on UCSB Mafia after my first-offense felony conviction still amazes me. If UCSB Mafia were… Read more »
I’ll support pro-gun groups such as California Rifle and Pistol Association instead of doing vandalism because that’ll upset the lefties at UCSB more.
Left and Right are obsolete. It’s either pro-Zionist or anti-Zionist, pro-ZOG or anti-ZOG. The matrix is Zionism. Everything within it, every distinction is simply part of Zionist Reality. The long-overdue and still-imperative Independent 9-11 Investigation is the quickest way to overthrow Zionism.
Karl Marx learned how to commune from the Catholics when he went to Jesuit school. The Jesuits created communism when the enslaved the natives in Paraguay in the 1600’s and had them living a communal lifestyle. Jesuits didn’t even teach the natives the Gospel so it was a communist society the natives lived in. That’s where Marx got his ideas about communism and spread them to his kin.
Marx was an average student. He was educated at home until he was 12 and spent five years, from 1830 to 1835, at the Jesuit high school in Trier, at that time known as the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium.
https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/karl-marx
Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Without-Evil-Journeys-Watershed/dp/0860913988
Wow bob you are a POS too just like the felon who you are comiserating with. Both complete psychos.
I never said I agree with everything he says, but I do empathize with his hatred for certain people who went out of their way to ruin his life because it’s happened to me too. Does that make it right to vandalize UCSB? No. You are the one who probably thinks it was okay for people to attack Jews at UCSB.
you are just as delusional as he is. stupid and crazy no way to go thru life
You are projecting because it’s you who’s the delusional liar.
No one went out of their way to ruin his life or yours- you both made bad decisions and cant come to terms with the repercussions of your actions its sad and pathetic move on. Its the words and actions of incels who cant come to terms with their low position in life due mostly to their own choices, bad decision making and many of their own faults/flaws.
Take responsibility for your actions and the agency you have in live and stop blaming others bc you messed up your own life
Oh so now you’re imagining you know me. That’s why I called you a ‘delusional liar.’
No you put your pathetic little rant about how you werent a good student and left. No one gatekept you. You have agency in you life made bad choices and left. Sad and pathetic you cant move past it. Delusional that people were out to get you and keep you out of UCSB it makes no sense
No you don’t know me and don’t know anything about my experience, but keep believing your delusional lies are facts because that’ll get you real lonely in life after people get sick up putting up with your abuse.
You wrote about your experience of being a bad student and having to leave.
Keep assuming things and claiming they’re reality, delusional liar.
You cant even keep strait what you said . Keep signing with a felon, nazi who is banned from campus for their illegal activities. But you are bonding with them. SO pathetic
Adolf Hitler was leader of the German Socialist Party. You are a socialist. You are bonding with Hitler by being a socialist who supports Planned Parenthood which was founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger. Most of the radicals at UCSB would say you’re a ‘fascist’ because you’re disagreeing with Neil when he views Israel as a bad nation. Neil’s views are more in line with the average student at UCSB than your views will ever be.
where are you making up these delusions you need to be institutionalized. I never commented on Isreal. Try not projecting stupid. What a stupid incompetent person you are couldnt go to ucsb had to fail out and now holds resentment years later he cant get over. NO USCB Degree for you What a poor little baby no you lie and make up stuff and bond with violent felon who has been forced into mental institutions and you think he makes sense. It shows how stupid and delusional you are. What an idiot. i see the issue im arguing with incel… Read more »
You didn’t mention Israel, but Neil did and you hate Neil. It’s obvious you’re the one most UCSB students wouldn’t want on campus. If the UCSB students saw Neil’s comments on Israel they would love him for it.
NO body likes neil he is banned from campus and a danger to society but keep you idol worship up. What a stupid incel nazi. You Couldnt make it here but you think you know campus its funny.
Your version of the story about Neil sounds fishy to me. Your opinion of Neil comes from a place of hate and insecurity. You’re entitled to your version of the events, but I’m sure that’s not the way Neil remembers it.