What are the roles of Department Chair, Deans and Vice Provost-Academic Personnel in the personnel process?
The Chair is responsible for overseeing the departmental review of the candidate’s record and for writing the recommendation letter, which presents the department’s evaluation (including the vote) of the candidate’s teaching, research/creative activity, and service for all personnel actions (APM 245 and UCD APM 245). The Dean (in some colleges an Associate Dean has responsibility for academic personnel matters) is the administrator responsible for reviewing the following actions within the school, college, or division: Appointments Merits Promotions Accelerations Deferrals Appraisals Dean’s personnel actions, which need no further review by the Vice Provost are called redelegated actions. Currently these include: all normal merits (excluding Professor VI and Above Scale), and appointments at or below the Assistant Professor III level (http://academicpersonnel.ucdavis.edu/delegations/cfm).
