2025 Administrative Orientation Agenda

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Goals: To welcome new ANR employees and provide a forum for networking and learning about ANR’s mission, vision, and structure, administrative services, statewide programs, institutes, UC Cooperative Extension and Research and Extension Centers.  

9:00 AM   Registration and Refreshments

9:30       Welcome, Introductions and Principles of Community—Brent Hales, Associate Vice President for Research and Cooperative Extension

UC ANR Mission, Vision, Structure

9:40       Ice Breaker Activity—Elizabeth Moon, Director, Workplace Inclusion and Belonging

10:05       Leadership Introduction—moderated by Katherine Hanke, Financial Services Supervisor

Message from the Vice President (video)—Glenda Humiston, Vice President, UC ANR 

10:10       UC Cooperative Extension—Keith Nathaniel, Director, County Cooperative Extension

10:15       Research & Extension Center System (Via Zoom)—Darren Haver, Director, REC System; South Coast REC

10:20       Academic Personnel and Development—Daniel Obrist, Vice Provost Academic Personnel

10:25       Human Resources—Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

10:30       Funding Structure—Adolfo Limon, Financial Analyst, Resource Planning & Management

10:35     Interactive Session: Statewide Programs and Institutes

Visit each table to learn about ANR and stamp your game card:
4-H Youth Development Program (State 4-H office)
Environmental Stewards 
Community Nutrition and Health
CalFresh Healthy Living, UC
Informatics & Geographic Information Systems (IGIS)
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Master Gardener Program
Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI)
Fire Network
Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program
EFNEP
California Institute for Water Resources
Master Food Preservers
The Vine and Innovation Center
UC Organic Agriculture Institute

11:30        Statewide Programs & Institutes—Brent Hales, Associate Vice President for Research and Cooperative Extension 

11:40        Lunch & Game Results—Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

Organizational Excellence

12:30      Civil Rights—David White, Affirmative Action Analyst

12:35      Academic Assembly Council—Chris Greer, Chair

12:40      Staff Assembly Council—Melissa Womack, Communications Chair 

12:45      Employee Resource Group Panel Discussion

                      People of Color—Hung Doan, Small Farms Advisor, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties

                      Black and Allied Employees—Derrick Robinson, Urban Agriculture, Food Systems, and Environmental Issues Advisor

                      LatinX and Friends—Arianna Nava, Community Education Specialist, Kings County                   

1:05      Personal & Professional Development—Jodi Azulai, Learning & Development

1:10     Employee Health Benefits—Michelle Younger, UC Davis Employee Benefits

1:15      Fidelity—Kim Becker, Fidelity

1:20      Interactive Session: Administrative Units
Visit each table to learn about ANR and stamp your game card:
Business Operations Center
Contracts & Grants
Development Services
Employee Benefits
Financial Services
Government & Community Relations 
Human Resources 
Fidelity
Information Technology 
Program Planning and Evaluation
Program Support Unit 
Publishing
Risk Management & Environmental Health & Safety 
Statewide Programs and REC Operations
Strategic Communications and News and Outreach in Spanish
Resource Planning and Management
Black and Allied Employees ERG
LatinX and Friends ERG
People of Color ERG
Staff Assembly
Academic Assembly Council
Ombuds
Employee and Labor Relations
   

2:20      Evaluation 
              Game Results—Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

2:25       Wrap-up Discussion (i.e., what did you learn?)—Tina Jordan & Jodi Azulai

2:45      Adjourn

Optional Networking Tour of Davis ANR Building