Associate Vice President
Brent Hales is Associate Vice President of UC ANR. He is responsible for guiding all ANR academic programs at the statewide level and is chair of the ANR Program Council.
Hales also serves as the statewide program leader for county-based Cooperative Extension programs in every county and oversees the research and extension centers located around the state.
Hales brings over 20 years of higher education research and leadership experience, including at land grant institutions and in cooperative extension. He joined ANR after serving as associate dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and director at Penn State Extension from 2019-2023. Before joining Penn State, he served as the senior associate dean and chief financial officer of the University of Minnesota Extension, associate dean for the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality, and the director of the Economic Development Authority Center at University of Minnesota, Crookston.
Brent Hales
Title: Associate Vice President for Research and Cooperative Extension
Address:
2801 Second Street
205
Davis, CA 95618
Phone: (530) 786-0256
Email:
bdhales@ucanr.edu
ANR Adventures
Read and subscribe to Associate Vice President Hales' blog. http://ucanr.edu/ANRAdventures.
Hales' areas of responsibility include:
- Academic personnel
- Affirmative action
- California Water Institute of Water Resources - Doug Parker
- Nutrition Policy Institute - Lorrene Ritchie
- Organic Agriculture Institute - Houston Wilson
- Program Planning and Evaluation - Katherine Webb-Martinez
- Program Support Unit - Sherry Cooper
- Statewide Program and REC Operations - Joni Rippee
- Research and Extension Centers
- Statewide Programs
The director of the Research and Extension Center System & Associate Director of Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Experiment Station advances Divisionwide program priorities through the deployment of resources and the application of criteria for advancement of academic personnel. The position reports directly to the UC ANR vice president.