Since then, she has been recognized for her celebrated teaching and mentoring, her productive research program (she is officially a “distinguished professor”), and for doing the work of the vice provost of Academic Personnel in a transparent and fair manner. Horwitz has become a near iconic figure on this campus since arriving in 1968 to serve as an assistant research physiologist, joining the faculty four years later. The office also provides management and informational workshops for deans, department chairs and other academic leaders, and it investigates alleged violations of the Faculty Code of Conduct, UC policies regarding equal employment opportunity and discrimination, and certain grievances filed under the Academic Personnel Manual. It is expected that Horwitz will return to her faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior.Īs vice provost of Academic Personnel, Horwitz has led the office’s mission to provide leadership and oversight for the recruitment, appointment, advancement and retention of Academic Senate faculty and Academic Federation members. Hexter praised Horwitz for “her strong collegial commitment to providing academic personnel processes that are transparent, consistent, efficient and responsive to departmental needs.” “It would be impossible to exaggerate my appreciation for Barbara's many years of service, and in particular her patience in explaining the fine points of Academic Personnel at UC Davis to a provost new to his office,” said Hexter, who took up his post on Jan. Hexter made clear that filling the position and replacing Horwitz are two distinctly different things. The search will begin this quarter, Hexter wrote, with the expectation that the new vice provost will by appointed in time to begin serving by the fall quarter. 11) to campus leaders that he would soon announce an internal search to fill the position. ‘Strong collegial commitment’Īs Horwitz prepares to step down after a 10-year stint in her post, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter said in a letter released today (Feb. She came into office with a recently completed administrative unit review on her desk, and, with her team, successfully implemented many of the recommendations, starting with a clear mission for the unit, and also including enhanced staff leadership, a faculty relations program and devoted focus to the Partner Opportunities Program (a recruitment and retention tool for outstanding faculty, with POP being used most often to assist spouses and partners who are looking for employment). And Horwitz’s office continues to create other new technological tools for increased efficiency. In addition, in collaboration with Information and Educational Technology, she and her team worked on the development of the My InfoVault Academic Personnel database, one of the first such databases in the UC system, providing for more streamlined Academic Personnel processing. She followed that up with more new resources, including a brown bag series for department chairs, a brown bag series for new faculty, and later, a mandatory training session for department chairs, a handbook for department chairs and program directors, and a leadership program for chairs and tenured faculty. I wanted to make it clear how they needed to go about building progress to be more successful.”Ībout six months later, Horwitz and her staff took the responses and launched the campus’s first-ever, Web-based list of frequently asked questions for new faculty. “I wanted them to know how the system worked and what our expectations were for advancement. “I was focused on the success of junior faculty,” Horwitz recalled in an interview this week. She asked a simple question: What do you know now about academic success that you wish you had known when you were first starting out as a young professor? In July 2001, shortly after settling into her new post as vice provost for Academic Personnel, Barbara Horwitz sent an e-mail to several recently tenured faculty members.
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