July 2026
Academic Personnel Deadlines
Important reminder: Please submit academic personnel actions to the APO by the below deadlines per the published APO Personnel Payroll Deadlines.
Date Due from School to APO
- APO Deadlines Calendar 2026- Monthly:
- August 5 for work completed in September 2026
- September 4 for work completed in October 2026
- October 5 for work completed in November 2026
- November 5 for work completed in December 2026
- December 4 for work completed in January 2027
- APO Deadlines Calendar 2026- Bi-Weekly:
- July 14 for work completed from August 16-August 29
- July 28 for work completed from August 30-September 12
- August 11 for work completed from September 13-September 26
- August 25 for work completed from September 27-October 10
- September 9 for work completed from October 11- October 24
- September 23 for work completed from October 25-November 7
- October 6 for work completed from November 8- November 21
- October 20 for work completed from November 22- December 5
We would like to thank you for your continued efforts in ensuring that all academic actions are submitted by the deadline. Please continue submitting your actions as early as possible. Submitting your actions to APO on or before our deadline will allow adequate time to complete the review process as well as address/resolve issues in a timely manner. Any action submitted to APO after the deadline cannot be guaranteed to be processed and paid until the following pay period.
Case Material Deadlines
Friendly reminder, please submit case materials for academic personnel reviews to APO by the below deadlines per the published Schedule for Academic Personnel Actions.
Date Due from School to APO
- November 1
- Semester Only: Appointment to Unit 18 Lecturer/Teaching Assistant/Associate Instructor/Graduate Student Researcher (Spring Semester)
- December 1
- Mid-Career Appraisal w/ or w/o Merit Review
- Promotion to Associate Professor, Lecturer SOE, Associate Adjunct Professor
- Promotion to Associate Professional Researcher, Associate Project Scientist
Revised MAPP Sections: 016, 2012, and 6001
The following sections of the Merced Academic Personnel Policies & Procedures (MAPP) have been revised and take effect on July 1, 2026. Examples of the changes include:
- Updates the timeframes for preliminary inquiries, investigations, and the filing of charges.
- Adds a requirement that the Administration provide a range of proposed sanctions in a notice of intent to discipline.
MAPP 2012 (Professor Series: Recruitment)
- Removes the requirement that the Dean verify the diversity of the composition of the search committee.
- Adds language affirming that “[c]onsistent with Regents Policy 4400, equitable and inclusive recruitment is integral to the University’s mission of academic excellence and service to the State of California.”
- Replaces “closing date” with “initial review date” to allow for greater search flexibility when needed.
- Provides new equal opportunity language that we are required to include in job postings.
- Reflects systemwide changes in access to aggregate candidate demographic data in AP Recruit.
- Requires the Dean to provide a written justification to the Department Chair and VPAP when cancelling a search.
- Removes the Statement of Contributions to Diversity requirement, due to Regental directive.
MAPP 6001 (Endowed Chairs and Professorships)
- Increases the minimum to establish new endowed chairs from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Note that this has no impact on existing endowed chairs.
- Adds a new endowed title – Endowed Professorship. The minimum to establish an Endowed Professorship will be $500,000 and only faculty at the Assistant or Associate rank will be eligible for appointment. The term of appointment will be three years and will not be renewable, so that Professorships can regularly rotate between early/mid-career faculty. Note that as of July 1 this title will exist only in theory, until suitable endowments are established.
2026-27 Academic Salary Program
UC Office of the President is implementing a salary increase budget of 4 percent for policy-covered staff and academic appointees at all locations. Excluded from this program are staff employees and academics appointees who are represented by our various unions as their wages are governed by collective bargaining unit agreements. This information can also be found under the News tab of the APO website.
Overview of the 2026-27 Program
- The overall salary scales for policy-covered academic appointees will be raised by 4%.
- The annual academic merit review process to determine reappointments, as well as adjustments in rank and step will continue.
- There will be no increases to off-scale salaries. Above-scale salaries will be increased by the same amount as the on-scale increase for Professor Step IX.
- In line with established processes, the effective date is July 1, 2026, or October 1, 2026, depending on the academic appointee group or effective the first pay period commencing thereafter for biweekly paid appointees. The faculty general range adjustment will be effective October 1, 2026.
Other non-represented academic appointees
- The scales for policy covered non-faculty academic appointees (which includes policy-covered librarians and academic researchers) will be increased by a general range adjustment of 4% on July 1, 2026 for monthly paid or July 5, 2026 (the first pay period commencing after July 1, 2026) for biweekly paid academic appointees (the precise amount will vary due to rounding). Scales with ranges will be increased in a similar fashion.
Faculty Success Resource: New Faculty Experience
Beginning June 30, 2026, a refreshed Faculty Experience will be available in Faculty Success as an optional preview. During the preview period you will be able to switch freely between the current and new Faculty Experience. The new experience will become the default interface for all users on November 2, 2026.
To help you and faculty become familiar with the new interface, we have created a Faculty Experience Transition Resource Guide. The guide includes an overview of the upcoming changes. We encourage you to explore the new Faculty Experience throughout the summer and fall at your own pace. Becoming familiar with the updated interface before the November transition will help ensure a smooth experience when the new Faculty Experience becomes the standard. After you have carefully reviewed the information, you are encouraged to share this with corresponding colleagues as appropriate.
If you have any questions, please contact UCM Faculty Success Support. Thank you for your continued support as we prepare for this transition.
GLAAS 2026.6 Release
GLAAS underwent scheduled maintenance on 6/17/2026, to deploy the GLAAS 2026.6 release, which includes new enhancements, feature updates, salary schedule revisions, and bug fixes.
To prepare users for the maintenance window, notifications were emailed to all GLAAS users on 6/16 and 6/17, advising that the system would be unavailable beginning at 4:00 PM on 6/17, and that all pending tasks should be completed prior to that time.
During the maintenance period, GLAAS was temporarily unavailable and users were unable to access the system or process appointments.
The deployment was successfully completed by APO and OIT, and all GLAAS services were restored on 6/17/2026.
Key Updates:
This release introduces important updates related to Teaching Assistant, Associate Instructor, and Tutor appointments, including revised salary schedules, the transition of applicable Teaching Assistant and Associate Instructor positions to 1/10 title codes and appointment letter templates following the ratified contract.
Effective Fall 2026, the default Paid Frequency for Teaching Assistants (TA) and Associate Instructors (AI) will be 10.
This change is pursuant to the terms of the recently ratified contract and is reflected in the Fall 2026 salary schedules, effective 8/1/2026.
Under the revised salary schedule, TAs and AIs will be compensated in 10 installments (1/10) instead of 9 installments (1/9) for AY2026-2027.
Teaching Assistant Titles
- 2320 – TEACHG ASST-1/10-GSHIP
- 2321 – TEACHG ASST-1/10-NON GSHIP
Associate Instructor Titles
- 1508 – Associate Instructor-AY 1/10-GSHIP
- 1509 – Associate Instructor-AY 1/10-Non-GSHIP
Tutor Titles
- 2860 – Tutor-GSHIP
- 2861 – Tutor-Non-GSHIP
- 2510 – Tutor-Non-Student
Release Enhancements:
A detailed list of GLAAS 2026.6 enhancements was distributed to all GLAAS users via email on 6/17/2026. A summary screenshot of the enhancements was also shared on the same day for reference.
Please note the following updates to appointment and service dates for Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 appointments:
- Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Associate Instructors (AIs): The appointment start date has been updated to 8/1/2026, while the service start date remains 8/19/2026.
- When entering appointments, please select the Fall ASE (Fall 2026) academic term.
- The following dates should auto-populate:
- Appointment Dates: 8/1/2026 – 12/31/2026
- Service Dates: 8/19/2026 – 12/22/2026
- Graduate Student Researchers (GSRs): Appointment and service dates remain unchanged, 8/17/2026 – 12/31/2026.
- When entering appointments, please select the Fall GSR (Fall 2026) academic term.
- The following dates should auto-populate:
- Appointment Dates: 8/17/2026 – 12/31/2026
- Service Dates: 8/17/2026 – 12/31/2026
- Readers and Tutors: Appointment and service dates may be manually adjusted to reflect the individual's actual employment period, as appropriate.
