2025 Administrative Orientation Agenda

Tuesday, April 22, 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.  

9:30 AM   Registration and Refreshments

10:00       Welcome, Introductions and Principles of Community—Brent Hales, Associate Vice President for Research and Cooperative Extension

UC ANR Mission, Vision, Structure

10:15       Ice Breaker Activity—Elizabeth Moon, Director, Workplace Inclusion and Belonging

10:40       Leadership Introduction—moderated by Janelle Wood, Financial Services Supervisor

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

10:45       UC Cooperative Extension—Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty, Director, County Cooperative Extension

10:50       Research & Extension Center System (Via Zoom)—Darren Haver, Director, REC System; South Coast REC
    
11:00       Statewide Programs & Institutes—Brent Hales, Associate Vice President for Research and Cooperative Extension 

11:05       Academic Personnel and Development—Daniel Obrist, Vice Provost Academic Personnel

11:10       Human Resources—Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

11:15       Funding Structure—Samantha Dang, Interim Director, Resource Planning & Management

11:30       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

12:00 PM  Lunch & Game Results—Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

Organizational Excellence—moderated by Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

1:00      Civil Rights—David White, Affirmative Action Analyst

1:05      Academic Assembly Council—Chris Greer, Chair

1:10      Staff Assembly Council—Lindsey Pedroncelli 

1:15      Employee Resource Group Panel Discussion

                      People of Color—Amrita Mukherjee, Urban Agriculture/Small Farms Advisor, San Bernardino County

                      Black and Allied Employees—Esther Lofton, Urban Watershed Resilience Advisor, South Coast Research & Extension              Center

                      LatinX and Friends—Ricardo Vela, Program Manager, News and Outreach in Spanish                     

1:30      Personal & Professional Development—Jodi Azulai, Learning & Development

1:35     Employee Health Benefits—Michelle Younger, UC Davis Employee Benefits

1:40      Fidelity—Kim Becker, Fidelity

1:45      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
The Vine and Innovation Center
Employee and Labor Relations
   

2:35      Evaluation 
              Game Results—Tina Jordan, Interim Academic Personnel Director

2:45       Wrap-up Discussion (i.e., what did you learn?)—Tina Jordan & Jodi Azulai

3:00       Adjourn

Optional Networking Tour of Davis ANR Building