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 Adjunct Professor (APM 280) Dean's Review Ad Hoc/Stand Final Review Appointment Assistant Adjunct Professors, Step I to III I/R RP R/R A Assistant Adjunct Professor, Steps IV to VI I/R RP R/R RP R/R RP A Assoc Adjunct Prof, Step I through Adj Prof, Steps I to IX, and Above Scale 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Reappointment Adjunct Professor series I/R RP A Merit First normal merit after appointment and first normal merit after promotion I/R RP A Asst. Adjunct Prof, II-VI; Assoc Adjunct Prof, II-III; Adjunct Prof, StepII-V I/R RP R/R A Assoc Adjunct Prof, IV-V I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Adjunct Professor, Step VI 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Adjunct Professor, Steps VII, VIII, and IX 1 I/R RP R/R A To Adjunct Professor, Above Scale 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Adjunct Professor, after first Above Scale 1 I/R RP R/R RP R/R RP A Accelerated Merit Asst. Adj. Prof., II-VI; Assoc. Adj. Prof. II-III; Adj. Prof, II-V that does not skip a step I/R RP R/R A Assoc Adj. Prof., IV-V that does not skip a step I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Adjunct Professor, Step VI that does not skip a step 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A To Adjunct Professor, Steps VII, VIII and IX that does not skip a step 1 I/R RP R/R A To Adjunct Professor, Above Scale that does not skip a step 1 I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Adjunct Professor series - All accel. merits that skip a step I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Adjunct Professor, after first Above Scale 1 I/R RP R/R RP R/R RP A Appraisal Assistant Adjunct Professor, 4th year 2 I/R RP R/R A Promotion Assistant Adjunct Professor to Associate Adjunct Professor I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Associate Adjunct Professor to Adjunct Professor I/R RP R/R RP O R/R RP A Deferral First and second year deferrals 3 I/R RP A Third year deferral 3 I/R RP R/R RP 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 Adjunct Professor series Redelegated actions I/R RP R/R A Adjunct Professor series 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 2 School of Medicine only 3 Does not apply to Professor, Step V and above (or equivalent titles at same step)