Your UC benefits are designed to protect you and your family. We encourage you to take a few minutes to designate beneficiaries for your retirement and insurance plans.
When Student Affairs supervisors met up last year, the plan was to get supervisors sharing their strengths. Student Affairs is using the feedback they received from the Staff Experience Survey, to launch new initiatives that could enhance staff engagement, retention and development.
As previously announced, UC enhanced the Retirement and Savings Program with a new Roth after-tax contribution option for the 403b and 457b plans. As of August 1, you may elect any combination of pretax and/or Roth after-tax contributions, up to the IRS limits.
Over the past year, UC Davis has been actively supporting potential hires through Career Chats, one-on-one sessions with Talent Acquisition Coordinators aimed at assisting candidates in their job search journey at UC Davis.
2023 was a banner year for UC Davis in many ways, including our rise in national rankings, setting new campus records for sponsored research funding, and exceeding our annual philanthropic fundraising goal.
In August, UC Davis was honored by Forbes as a Best Employer in California for the third consecutive year both as an educational institution and for our healthcare. It's a testament to our university's thriving workplace culture, one that values diversity, competitive pay and a positive work-life balance.
In September 2023, UC Davis Health launched an onboarding survey to gather feedback from the hiring manager 30 days after the employee starts and at critical milestones for new hires: 30, 60, and 90 days. The Davis campus launched the same survey on December 13.
Over the last three months of 2023, executive leaders visited a variety of teams across UC Davis Health with a focus on listening to employee experiences.
