Consistent with President Drake’s announced hiring freeze and UC Merced HR’s position control for staff, UC Merced will apply position control to academic hiring for a six-month period of time, whereupon it will be assessed for possible extension or modification.
Overview of the Position Control Process
If a hiring unit seeks to initiate a search for a Senate faculty member (Professor or Teaching Professor series), Librarian, or Academic Coordinator, the unit must submit an exception request to the Vice Chancellor of their Division. This process applies to both new positions and the filling of vacancies, as well as to both open searches and situations in which a search waiver will be sought.
For hiring units in Academic Affairs, this exception request must be made by the Dean/Vice Provost to the EVC/Provost (routed through Assistant Provost Sharon Butler via this request form).
The EVC/P (or VC) will assess the search exception request and, if in agreement with the necessity of filling the position at this time, will forward the request to the Position Control Committee who then makes a recommendation to the Chancellor. The Chancellor will have final authority to determine whether an exception request is granted and thus a search (or search exemption/waiver) may be conducted.
Other academic titles are not subject to this full review process and will instead be tracked and reported to the Position Control Committee and Chancellor by APO.
Detailed Resources
Academic Position Control Document
Academic Position Control Workflow for Academic Affairs
Academic Position Control Workflow for Other Divisions
