Joint Senate/Admin Forum — Development of Achievement Relative to Opportunity (ARO) Guidelines for UC Santa Cruz Personnel Review
The Committee on Academic Personnel (CAP), VPAA Ravelo, and iCP/EVC Koch will host a working Forum on the Development of Achievement Relative to Opportunity (ARO) Guidelines for UC Santa Cruz Personnel Review on November 5, 2025 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm via Zoom. Please see this document for history, context, and draft proposals for ARO guidelines.
With stakeholder feedback from this forum, CAP, the VPAA, and the iCP/EVC aim to develop comprehensive guidelines for ARO in the personnel review process that consider disruptive, external impacts on academic advancement. This online Senate forum will gather broad input from Senate faculty on a preliminary proposal for ARO guidelines with the goal of implementing the guidelines in review cycles beginning fall quarter 2026. Please join us for this working forum to share your valuable input and feedback, and assist us in creating a set of guidelines that best serves our campus and faculty. We hope you will bring examples of impacts and thoughts on how we can best assess impacted work.
