The Vice Provost's Office recently made changes to the “Retirements and Recalls” webpage on the Academic Affairs website. Links to the Retirement Benefits section were updated and the various topics were reordered on the page. There are now section header links provided at the top of the page that will take you to that section of the page. We hope the changes will be helpful when you navigate this page.

Academic Merits and Promotions

Things to remember:

A new enhancement for approval requests is going live in UC Davis Recruit on May 1, 2020. This enhancement allows the approver to notify the recruitment analyst that a change is required before making a decision on a submitted request.

The College Deadlines for Merits and Promotions have been updated for 2020-2021. Please review.

Based on many inquiries to the Vice Provost's office regarding when the promotion option is required to be included on a Step Plus voting ballot, the VP's office has made updates to the Step Plus Toolkit with regards to who decides when the promotion options are required to be included on the ballot. Please review the following guidance to ensure early-career academic appointees at the assistant and associate ranks maintain some control on when they will be considered for promotion:

Per APM UCD 220, all appointees in the Professional Researcher series are required to be reviewed at least once every five years. Effective 2020-21 merit cycle, all Project Scientists and Specialists, regardless of rank and step, also must be reviewed at least once every five years. As is the practice with the Professional Researcher series, this change will apply to both represented and non-represented Project Scientists and Specialists.

Beginning 2020-2021 merit cycle, promotion dossiers which required a Peer Evaluation of Teaching Letter, the letter must be a separate document in the dossier.  Past practice has been that the Peer Evaluation of Teaching Letter could be referenced in the department letter or a separate document.  However, going forward the dossier must include the Peer Evaluation of Teaching Letter.  The promotion checklist for senate actions has been updated to reflect the update.

When you log into RECRUIT, you will see your name in right hand corner. Click on it.

It will take you to your Dashboard which is a compiled list of recruitments, exemptions, and waivers. The Dashboard includes those pending approval as well as those recently approved.