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Committee on Academic Personnel
CAP Oversight Subcommittee Analyst: Solomon Bekele, ph. 752-1153, fax 752-9690
CAP Appellate Subcommittee Analyst: Edwin Arevalo,
ph. 754-7468, fax 752-9690
What is the Committee on Academic Personnel?
FAQ: Senate Faculty Review Process
- Ad hoc committees
- National and international reputation
Frequently-asked questions about the academic personnel process at Davis
CAP's Workflow
Annual Reports
Annual Call for
Merit and Promotion Actions
CAP's Criteria For Accelerations
CAP's Criteria For AdvancementsWithout Further
Review
Advancement of Associate Professors, Step IV
What is the Committee on Academic Personnel?
The Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP) is a committee of faculty members
of the Academic
Senate, who advise the Vice-Provost
for Academic Personnel. The charge to CAP is simply spelled out in
the Davis Division Bylaws:-
43. Academic Personnel
(A) This committee shall consist of nine members.
(B) The committee shall have the following duties:
(1) To make recommendations to the Chief Campus Officer regarding appointments,
promotions, merit increases, appraisals, terminations, appeals of personnel
actions, salaries and related matters.
(2) To review staff allocation recommendations of the Committee on Academic
Planning and Budget Review and confer with that committee thereon.
(C) The annual report of the committee will be presented at the first
regular meeting of the representative assembly in the fall term.
CAP is appointed by the Committee on Committees, who themselves are elected
by the Academic
Senate. We encourage all members of the Academic Senate to participate
in the election process and thus influence the composition of CAP.
The criteria used by CAP in making recommendations are basically those
contained in the Universitywide and Davis Division Senate Bylaws, Guidelines
and Regulations and in the Academic
Personnel Manual (APM). Some of the most important sections are Senate
Bylaw 55, APM sections 200, 210, 220, 615 and UCD-220A-H. CAP is also
implementing the recommendations of the Pister report. (Click a document's
name to view it.)
The personnel review process is described in a summary document available
by clicking here.
Schools, colleges and some other units have local personnel committees
which are subcommittees of CAP, appointed by CAP from nominations made
by the local Faculty Executive Committee or equivalent. CAP reviews some
actions directly and delegates others, either to the Deans or to the local
personnel committees, as follows.
CAP considers directly, promotions and upper level merit increases, accelerations
of more than 1 year, appointments at Assistant Professor Step IV and above,
appraisals, actions for local personnel committee members and appropriate
appeals. For many of these actions, CAP is assisted by ad hoc committee
reports. These reports are usually of great value and weigh heavily in
CAP's deliberations.
The first normal merit after a successful promotion (to Associate or
Full Professor or equivalent) is delegated to the appropriate Dean. Appointments
below Assistant Professor Step IV, all normal or 1-year accelerated merit
actions below Professor Step VI and all actions in the Salaried Clinical
Professor series are delegated to local personnel committees. Appraisals
are carried out by the local personnel committees and then considered
by CAP. CAP encourages faculty to involve themselves in their local Faculty
Executive Committee and thus influence the membership of the local personnel
committees. UCD has the following local personnel committees:
(List in preparation)
CAP and the local personnel committees assess a faculty member's contributions
in the areas of teaching, research or other appropriate creative activity,
academic service and professional competence and service. The importance
of teaching is consistently stressed and is an essential component of
every faculty member's record. The importance of the other factors depends
to some extent on the series, but, in most series (including all ranks
of Professors, Adjunct Professors, Professors In Residence and Professors
of Clinical ...) the requirement for research or appropriate creative
activity is also essential. Service activities are receiving growing recognition,
bringing a need for better evaluation of the quality of service. CAP is
currently reviewing these issues and would welcome comments.
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