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Academic Review & Appointment Life-Cycle

Periodic review of academic accomplishments is required by University policy (APM - 210220, and 160) for all academic appointees. The academic review process is conducted to ensure the continuing quality of faculty and academics who are eligible for reappointment, merit advancement, or promotion based on their applicable academic series criteria.  

During an academic review, a file containing materials submitted by the academic appointee, their department, and their school is prepared and submitted for committee review and issuance of an outcome by an applicable final authority. 

This page is aimed at providing faculty and academics with an improved understanding of UC San Diego's academic review process while promoting procedural transparency.

Delegation of Authority

UC San Diego's academic review process functions under the concept of "delegated authority".  

Defined as the process of transferring responsibility for a task from one individual to another , delegated authority for the academic review process is normally divided between a school's Dean, the Sr. Associate Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs, Executive Vice Chancellor, and Chancellor. 

For a detailed understanding of UC San Diego's delegations of authority for the academic review process, we encourage faculty and academics familiarize themselves with UC San Diego's Authority & Review Chart and Delegation of Authority webpage.

Academic Review Process Overview

Based on the applicable delegated authority, academic review files can undergo one of several possible procedural workflows.  Please review the charts listed below for a visual representation of an academic review file's movement through the review process. 

2023-2024 File Deadlines by School

UC San Diego's academic review process works at its most efficient level when materials, recommendations, and files are submitted in consideration of applicable campus review deadlines.  Below is a listing of deadlines established at each school for the submission of academic review files and materials by a department to the school's dean's office for review.   

Colleges Quartet (HDSI, QI, SDSC, Design Lab)
Jacobs School of Engineering School of Biological Sciences
Rady School of Management School of Global Policy & Strategy
Schools of Arts & Humanities Scripps Institution of Oceanography
School of Social Sciences School of Physical Sciences
VC Research (ORU's) VC Health Sciences

 Please contact your departmental academic personnel services representative if you have questions about your school's submission deadlines.

Please note, school deadlines are established in consideration of campus and committee review deadlines as linked below:

Interfolio Review, Promotion, & Tenure (RPT) Workflow Templates

UC San Diego's academic review and appointment process is managed via an electronic workflow and case management software called Interfolio Review, Promotion, & Tenure (RPT). Within RPT, proposed academic actions follow a pre-established workflow template that grants reviewers and final authorities, as determined by the proposed academic action and policy,  access to file materials and the ability to issue final outcomes.

The creation and subsequent use of  RPT workflow templates is determined by the academic review or appointment action and the applicable delegated final authority. 

UC San Diego employs the use of several policy driven workflow templates for departments and schools to use when processing academic review and appointment actions.  Departments and schools have some flexibility in how they design their specific workflow templates as long as they observe and maintain policy driven workflow requirements.  Below is a breakdown of UC San Diego's foundational policy driven workflow requirements as well as a breakdown of workflow templates separated by school, department, action, and delegated authority.

Best Practice Workflow Templates

Colleges

Earl Warren
Eighth
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Muir
Revelle
Seventh
Sixth
Thurgood Marshall

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

Extended Studies

Extended Studies

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

Quartet (HDSI, QI, SDSC, Design Lab)

Halicioglu Institute for Data Science
Qualcomm Institute
San Diego Super Computer

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

Jacobs School of Engineering

Jacobs School of Engineering
Bioengineering
Computer Science and Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Nanoengineering
Structural Engineering

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

Rady School of Management

Rady

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

Research Affairs

Research Affairs

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

School of Arts and Humanities

School of Arts and Humanities
Analytical Writing Program
History
Institute for Practical Ethics
Institute of Arts & Humanities
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Theatre & Dance
Visual Arts

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

School of Biological Sciences

School of Biological Sciences
Cell and Developmental Biology
Ecology, Behavior & Evolution
Molecular Biology
Neurobiology

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

School of Global Policy & Strategy

School of Global Policy & STrategy

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

School of Physical Sciences

School of Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences
Anthropology
Center for Research on Educational Equity & Teaching Excellence
Cognitive Science
Communication
Education Studies
Ethnic Studies
Linguistics
Political Science
Sociology
Psychology
Urban Studies and Planning

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

UC San Diego Health Sciences

School of Medicine
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Public Health

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Climate, Atmospheric Sciences, Physical Oceanography

Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine

California Sea Grant

Geosciences Research
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Integrative Oceanography
Marine Biology Research
Marine Physical Laboratory
SIO Department

*Review workflow templates can also be used to process academic appointment actions.

2024-2025 File Submission Statistics

October 28, 2024 File Submission Deadline

October 28, 2024 File Submission Deadline Statistics for:
  • First Deferral- Dean's Authority
  • Second Consecutive Deferral-EVC Authority

School Expected

Outstanding 

as of 1/3/2025

Percentage

Outstanding

Arts & Humanities 15 0 0%
Biological sciences 2 1 50%
Colleges 0 0 0%
Global Policy and Strategy 0 0 0%
Health Sciences 2 1 50%
Jacobs School of Engineering 1 0 0%
Physical Sciences 2 0 0%
Quartet 1 0 0%
Rady School of Management 6 1 16.7%
SIO 2 1 50%
Research and Innovation 0 0 0%
Social Sciences 12 1 8.3%
Total 43

5

11.6%

 

December 2, 2024 File Submission Deadline Statistics

December 2, 2024 File Submission Deadline Statistics for:

  • Consecutive no-change actions requiring campus review
  • Actions for non-salaried appointees requiring campus review  
  • Contested no-change actions
  • Appraisals
  • Reappointments/merit actions requiring campus review
  • Advancements within Above Scale   
School Expected

Outstanding 

as of 1/3/2025

Percentage

Outstanding

Arts & Humanities 9 0 0%
Biological sciences 12 1 8.3%
Colleges 0 0 0%
Global Policy and Strategy 1 1 100%
Health Sciences 42 16 38.1%
Jacobs School of Engineering 12 3 25%
Physical Sciences 10 0 0%
Quartet 1 0 0%
Rady School of Management 0 0 0%
SIO 9 9 100%
Research and Innovation 4 2 50%
Social Sciences 15 4 26.7%
Total 115

36

31.3%

 

Please note, the above provided statistics are specific to actions requiring submission to and review from the Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP). 

Historical File Submission Statistics

2023-2024 File Submission Statistics

Click the below linked file containing academic review life-cycle statistics for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Please note, the provided statistics are specific to files submitted for Sr. AVC, EVC, or Chancellor review. 

Additionally, the provided statistics are not inclusive of carry-forward files from the 2022-2023 academic year, appointments, series changes, retention and pre-emptive retentions, and UC-AFT Non-Senate Faculty Files.

2022-2023 File Submission Statistics

Click the below linked file containing academic review life-cycle statistics for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Please note, the provided statistics are specific to files submitted for Sr. AVC, EVC, or Chancellor review. 

Additionally, the provided statistics are not inclusive of carry-forward files from the 2021-2022 academic year, appointments, series changes, retention and pre-emptive retentions, and UC-AFT Non-Senate Faculty Files.