ANR Update

Dear Colleagues: UC is running the biennial Staff Engagement Survey to learn more about non-represented (policy-covered) staff impressions about working at the university.

We need your input to help us evaluate the various internal communications platforms used at ANR and to develop a strategy aligned with communication best practices. Please take a two-minute survey to share your thoughts: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=27524.

The systemwide UCPath Steering Committee has decided the new launch date for UCPath at UC ANR, UC Davis and UC Davis Health will be October 1, with cutover activities happening in September.

[UPDATED APRIL 16, 2019, to correct Linda Katehi's title to Chancellor.] Dear Colleagues, I know many of you worked with Charley Hess. I have learned that Charley passed away Saturday at home with family following a long bout with congestive heart failure.

The University invites comments on a proposed new Academic Personnel Manual Section 011 (APM - 011), Academic Freedom, Protection of Professional Standards, and Responsibilities of Non-faculty Academic Appointees.