Academic Human Resources

Academic HR is the principal department for all academic personnel matters within the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Academic HR provides leadership, coordination and consulting services in applying academic personnel policies and procedures in recruitment, advancement, compensation and employee relations for academic appointees in the division.

To better address your academic personnel questions and concerns, please contact Interim Academic Personnel Director, Tina Jordan at tljordan@ucanr.edu.

Our mailing address is: UC ANR Academic HR

2801 Second Street

Davis, CA 95616

AHR Current News and Information

2024-25 Academic Salary Program Announcement

General Salary Increase Program for policy-covered employees July 2024

We are pleased to share the good news that UC President Michael Drake has confirmed the decision to proceed with a 2024 general salary increase program for policy-covered academic appointees (i.e., employees not represented by a collective bargaining unit) at all UC locations.

For policy-covered academic appointees, the academic salary scales were increased by a general range adjustment of 4.2%, effective July 1, 2024. The regular peer-review merit advancement process for policy-covered academic appointees will continue per academic personnel policy. This program is separate and distinct from any UC ANR Market Adjustment program. Please see 2024-25 UCANR Academic Salary Program Announcement for guidelines and eligibility criteria.

Please note that this increase does not apply to represented employees and academic personnel who are receiving separate increases in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements.

CE Advisor Salary Equity Adjustment Plan 2023

Attracting and retaining highly qualified academics is a top priority for UC ANR. One of the key goals of the 2020-25 UC ANR Strategic Plan is to continue to address the competitiveness of the compensation for our Cooperative Extension Advisors. As a result, in September 2023, Vice President Humiston approved a compensation plan to adjust the annual salaries of CE Advisors in the Assistant and Associate ranks in order to address market labor inequity disparities.The salary adjustment is effective October 1, 2023.

Please see the CE Advisor Salary Equity Adjustment Plan 2023 for full and complete details.

Soft-funded Temporary Hire Information

To assist academics with the hiring of temporary positions, either direct hires or recruitment's, please fill out the 1st Steps and RA Unit Handout and submit to Academic HR. The information you provide will help us determine the appropriate title and course of action.

Please allow up to five business days for a response, which will include a tentative time frame and next steps.

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Announcement & Calendar of Academic HR Deadlines for the Merit and Promotion Process and Skills Development Trainings

For the 2024-2025 Merit and Promotion Calendar with other important dates: 2024-2025 Academic Calendar

Announcement: Academic Program Review and Advancement, 2024-2025 Review Cycle

As a reminder, every academic is required to participate in the 2024-2025 review cycle. Advancement actions were confirmed with supervisors in August and everyone else is to complete an Annual Evaluation. If you are a new academic who started on Oct. 1, 2024 or later, the Goals and Objectives form is the only requirement for your action. Please start preparing materials for your action, if you have not started already; the due date to submit your materials is December 9, 2024. The revised E-Book and Annual Evaluation Guidelines linked below indicate what documents are required for your action.

For Advancement actions:

E-Book 2024-2025: https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/360690.pdf
PR Dossier Cover Sheet: https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/360691.docx

For those academics whose proposed action is a promotion or an indefinite review, you and your supervisor will receive an email from Anna Lee with a link to the Qualtrics Surveys which need to be completed and submitted so the VP can solicit letters of evaluation for your case. This email will also include your period of review (from/to) to help confirm the expected timeframe for your packet.

For Annual Evaluation and New Hire actions:

Annual Evaluation Guidelines 2024-2025: https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/360140.pdf
Annual Evaluation & Goals Form 2024-2025 (Full/partial AE): https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/360142.docx

For first time Annual Evaluations, review period start date should be your hire date.

For new academics who started Oct. 1, 2024 or later use Goals and Objective Form 2024-2025: https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/387690.docx

Resources:

Academic Calendar and Due Dates: https://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/files/360712.pdf
For Information and Training, please visit the Learning & Development Performance Evaluation page: L&D Performance Evaluation
Academic Human Resources website for reference: https://ucanr.edu/academicpersonnel

Uploading your materials:

All goals, annual evaluations, and advancement materials will be uploaded via your Project Board Academic Program Review dashboard in ANR Portal. Please review User Manual for step-by-step instructions.
You can view the status of your case at any time in your Candidate Dashboard: https://projectboard.ucanr.edu/program-review/

Contacts:

For Academic HR or merit/promotion questions, please contact Anna Lee at anlee@ucanr.edu.
For Program Planning and Evaluation or general Project Board questions, contact Kit Alviz at kit.alviz@ucop.edu.