Delegations of Authority for Academic Personnel Actions

On October 1, 2006, the Vice Provost-Academic Personnel, was delegated the authority by then-Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw to administer the academic personnel program for the UC Davis campus, including development of implementing procedures and application of the UC academic personnel policies.

This site provides guidance for understanding delegations of authority regarding academic personnel actions. These authorities are official only when documented in an official policy or delegation of authority at http://manuals.ucdavis.edu/da.

A: Approval authority RP: Review for adherence to policy I/R: Initiate action/Recommend R: Review R/R: Reviews/Recommends O: Optional Ad Hoc or Standing Committee review Specialist, Specialist in the AES, and Education Extension Specialist (APM 330) Dean's Review Ad Hoc/Stand Final Review Appointment Junior (Specialist Series only) I/R RP A Assistant Specialist I - III I/R RP R/R A Associate Specialist, Step I through Full Ran, Steps I - V and Above Scale I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Reappointment All ranks and steps I/R RP A Merit First normal merit after appointment and first normal merit after promotion I/R RP A Assistant Specialist, Steps II-Full Rank, Steps I-III I/R RP R/R A To Full Specialist, Step IV I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Full Specialist, Step V I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Full Specialist, Above Scale 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Full Specialist, after first Above Scale 1 I/R RP R/R RP R/R RP A Accelerated Merit Assistant Specialist, Step II to Full Specialist, Step III that does not skip a step I/R RP R/R A To Full Specialist, Step IV that does not skip a step I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Full Speciallist, Step V that does not skip a step I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Full Specialist Above Scale that does not skip a step 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Full Specialist all accel. Merits that skip a step I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Promotion Assistant Specialist to Associate Specialist I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Associate Specialist to Full Specialist I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Joint Appointment All actions are processed in accordance with procedures outlined above except all Departments and Deans Offices must review the action (see UCD 220 for procedure) Appeal Specialist Redelegated actions I/R RP R/R A Specialist Non-Redelegated actions I/R RP R/R RP R/R RP A 1 Approval of salary rate above 47% of the maximum of the appropriate salary scale requires President/Regents approval