ANR Update

Dear Colleagues,I’m pleased to share good news – Gov. Newsom and the State Legislature have finalized the state’s FY 2025-26 budget. The budget maintains the same level of funding for UC and UC ANR that we received last fiscal year. This is a remarkable improvement from earlier budget proposals that proposed…

Dear Colleagues,I am pleased to announce that the University of California will provide a general 3.2% salary increase for eligible policy-covered staff employees and academic appointees at all locations. UC President Drake confirmed the salary program today with the following details:Policy-covered…

Vice President Glenda Humiston informs the UC ANR community that longtime colleague Ken Tate, a professor and Cooperative Extension specialist in rangeland science in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, has passed away unexpectedly.

News about the budget status of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed), which funds our CalFresh Healthy Living, UC program.

Hannah Thompson has been named as the new director of the Nutrition Policy Institute. With Lorrene Ritchie retiring July 1, Wendi Gosliner will serve as interim director until Thompson begins in her new role on Sept. 1.