September to October: Learning and Listening
- Campus Day
- Stakeholder townhalls
- Written input accepted
- Advisory committee discussions
October to November: Define
- Define and finalize chancellor position
- Develop candidate criteria and outreach strategy
October to January: Building Candidate Pool
- Implicit bias training for advisory committee
- President Napolitano requests nominations from UC and peer university leaders
- Advertise position
- Solicit nominations from UC Merced community
- Executive candidate outreach strategy
- Additional research by search firm to identify candidates
November to February: Winnowing
- Faculty subcommittee reviews prospective candidates
- Full advisory committee reviews prospective candidates
- Determination of candidate interest
- Full advisory committee identifies semi-finalists
March to May: Selection
- Full advisory committee interviews semi-finalists
- Full advisory committee recommends finalists to President Napolitano
- President Napolitano interviews finalists
- President Napolitano and staff perform background and reference checks
- President Napolitano recommends her choice to the UC Board of Regents
- Regents vote on chancellor nominee
Public input is encouraged throughout the search process. Comments may be submitted via email to ucmchancellorsearch@ucop.edu
