Take this opportunity to engage in discussions with colleagues about the resources and opportunities available through ANR as a division.
All early-career UC Cooperative Extension advisors and specialists, academic coordinators, academic administrators, and Agricultural Experiment Station faculty are invited to participate in the orientation, which will be held at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
View materials from the 2014 and 2015 orientations online. Evaluations of past orientations have been very positive - 4.0 to 4.4 on a scale of 1 to 5. Comments from participants:
- "Expectations were exceeded, I did not know what to expect and learned so much."
- "Loved the tours! Great work!"
- "I appreciated learning about how the ANR operation looks 'in the field.' It helped me to see how vast the ANR operation is."
- "Thanks to the senior managers that made themselves accessible to the new employees and for building a sense of pride in the organization."
- "I did not expect the orientation to be so impressive, and I was happily surprised at how extremely valuable the experience was."
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW for February 22-24, 2017!
For further information, visit the Programmatic Orientation website at http://ucanr.edu/sites/orientations or contact ANR Program Support at (530) 750-1256.
Continuing our commitment to deploying Cooperative Extension (CE) specialists and advisors to address critical issues, ANR is soliciting proposals for these CE positions. The new 2016 call aims to identify positions for strengthening and rebuilding the ANR network to address programmatic gaps and emerging needs. The call, including the updated position proposal template as well as the process flowchart timeline and criteria documents, is posted at http://ucanr.edu/2016callforpositions.
The online position-proposal submittal process will be open from Jan. 12 to May 5 at 5 p.m. to allow as much time as possible for internal consultation and discussions with ANR stakeholders in all program areas. We expect and strongly encourage engaging external stakeholders – including commodity groups, cooperating programs, agency partners, community groups, and others – to explicitly discuss priority needs for positions.
Filling critical academic positions is a top priority for ANR. Since the beginning of 2012, ANR has hired 86 advisors and specialists, and has 45 approved positions under recruitment or to be recruited in 2016. This list is posted on the 2016 call website. New 2016 position proposals should identify additional crucial positions.
The resources released through retirements and separations continue to enable us to hire new advisors and specialists. As with the current recruitments, we will remain nimble with future hiring in phases over time to enable us to accomplish the search and hiring process in an orderly fashion, evaluate resources on a real-time basis, deal with unexpected changes in staffing, and address unforeseen critical gaps as they emerge.
Sincerely,
Glenda Humiston
Vice President
For the past 18 months, UC ANR Academic Personnel Unit (APU) and the Staff Personnel Unit (SPU) have been working closely together to integrate the human resource services. This has been a very positive and successful process for the staff of the two units. The consolidated Academic and Staff Personnel units, under “one” Human Resource Service umbrella, will be more effective and efficient for the Division. The merger is effective October 1, 2105.
This strategy will enhance the services provided to ANR clientele when coupled with a “business partner” model, allowing for a closer partnership between HR staff and their clients. Under this model, the APU and SPU will identify HR “business partners,” from current HR analysts, who will consult strategically with clients on HR actions, explain policies and procedures, and ensure timely completion of their assigned actions.
The Staff Personnel Unit will continue to serve ANR units as they have with staff recruitments, compensations, leaves and labor relations. The Academic Personnel Unit will continue to serve ANR units with academic recruitments, merits and promotions, sabbatical leaves, and emeritus status. These functions will continue to be overseen by the UC ANR Vice Provost for Cooperative Extension. The labor relations team will continue to serve the division, however there will be greater integration between the academic and staff subject matter experts, ensuring enhanced client services. The Affirmative Action office will continue to serve ANR as an integrated service. The collaboration between the Academic and Staff Personnel functions will allow for a more comprehensive customer service orientation model.
On October 1, 2015, John Fox will join the new HR organization as its Executive Director – based in Davis – and will ensure its successful implementation, as Linda Manton moves toward retirement, in completion of projects and training programs.
Tu Tran
Associate Vice President
View or leave comments for ANR Leadership at http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRUpdate/Comments.
This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.
Recently hired ANR academics are invited to attend a programmatic orientation on Oct. 27-29 at the Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center in Parlier.
ANR academics who have been hired in the past five years and did not attend the 2014 Programmatic Orientation should attend.
A draft agenda for the 2015 programmatic orientation is available at http://ucanr.edu/sites/orientations/Programmatic_Orientation/Agenda/ and will be updated with tour details.
Register for the ANR programmatic orientation at http://ucanr.edu/sites/orientations/Programmatic_Orientation/Registration.
For more information, contact ANR Program Support Unit Sherry Cooper at (530) 750-1256 or Saundra Wais at (530) 750-1260.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
This orientation is open to all new UC Cooperative Extension advisors, UC Cooperative Extension specialists, academic coordinators, academic administrators and Agricultural Experiment Station faculty.
Join Associate Vice President Bill Frost and our new vice president to discuss the mission of UC ANR and our varied roles in California and the University, and see examples of successful research and outreach programs. The program will begin at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 27, and end at noon on Thursday, Oct. 29. More details on the agenda and registration will be shared this summer.
In August 2014, 56 new academics who had joined ANR since 2009 met at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center to engage in discussions with colleagues and learn about the resources available through ANR. Evaluations of that orientation were very positive — 4.0 on a scale of 1 to 5.
For new academics who were unable to attend the 2014 workshop, and for those of you who have been hired recently — please mark your calendars now — and plan to join us Oct. 27-29.
If you have questions about the orientation, please contact Jan Corlett, chief of staff to the vice president, at jan.corlett@ucop.edu or (510) 287-3343.