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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 (1) develops, implements, coordinates, and manages universitywide outreach, recruitment, and retention efforts intended to enhance the diversity of the University's graduate student and faculty populations, such as the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, the President's Summit on Faculty Gender Equity, and the Summit on Faculty Diversity in the Health Sciences; (2) monitors campus Affirmative Action plans at each site to ensure compliance with Federal and State regulations, and with Regental requirements, see Affirmative Action Guidelines; (3) maintains contact with Academic Vice Chancellors, Provosts, and chief academic officers, academic senate members, and senate committees on UC campuses; (4) serves as resource on matters dealing with Affirmative Action for the UC 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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