Re: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Transition
To: All campus
Dear campus colleagues,
It is with mixed emotions that I announce that after five years of service, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg Camfield will be stepping down from his role, effective May 31. Provost Camfield plans to take a year sabbatical and then will return to campus as faculty.
Provost Camfield joined the UC Merced faculty in 2007 and was named the Vincent Hillyer Professor of Literature in 2009. He served as Vice Provost for the Faculty from 2014 to 2018. He was appointed to the EVC/P role in 2018 after serving as Interim. The leadership accomplishments during his tenure as EVC/P are too numerous to list here in full, but they include helping to guide and implement the university's first strategic plan, helping to establish a transfer initiative to facilitate increases in the numbers of transfer students coming to UC Merced from the Central Valley, co-creating the new university budget planning process, and establishing the foundation for medical education at UC Merced.
During the recent years of pandemic operations, we have valued his leadership in successfully transitioning the university to emergency remote learning, helping to manage the COVID-19 crisis, and being an invaluable thought partner in planning the return to campus. Provost Camfield will be the first to note that almost every one of his accomplishments – those included and otherwise – involved significant effort and contributions from his immediate office, which speaks to his level of humility and character.
There will be a reception planned this spring with details forthcoming. Please join me in thanking Provost Camfield for his remarkable service as Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
An Interim EVC/P will be named within the next several weeks. We will commence a national search for a permanent EVC/P this summer with the intent of having this important role filled in early 2024.
Sincerely,
Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D.
Chancellor
