Academic Advancement

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Academic Advancement is a Department within the Division of Academic Affairs at the Office of the President, the universitywide administrative headquarters of the University of California. Academic Advancement includes the following units:

Academic Personnel develops, implements, and manages policies that affect issues of compensation, benefits, and employee relations for all academic personnel at the University and provides a liaison with campus Academic Personnel offices. Academic personnel include, but are not limited to, graduate student employees such as Research and Teaching Assistants; academic service professionals such as Librarians and Cooperative Extension Specialists and Advisors; academic research professionals such as Professional Researchers and Specialists; and faculty such as Lecturers, Clinical Faculty, and Regular Professorial Rank Faculty.

Data Management & Analysis maintains statistics of graduate student and faculty populations for meeting federal and state reporting obligations, and develops data for universitywide planning and program evaluation efforts.

Faculty & Graduate Student Affirmative Action and Diversity

• develops, implements, and coordinates university-wide outreach, recruitment, and retention efforts intended to enhance the diversity of the University's graduate student and faculty populations;
• monitors campus Affirmative Action and Diversity plans at each site to ensure compliance with Federal and State regulations, and with Regental requirements;
• maintains contact with Academic Vice Chancellors, Provosts, Deans, and chief academic officers, academic senate members, and senate committees on University of California campuses;
• serves as resource on matters dealing with Affirmative Action and diversity for the University of California system.

Academic Advancement Organization Chart (pdf file). A copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed in order to open the PDF files; a free copy can be obtained at the Adobe site.

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