Dear CHASS faculty and staff:

In today’s edition of Inside UCR you will find our Campus response to systemwide hiring freeze. I invite you to review the terms that will guide our hiring procedures for the foreseeable future. 

There is much relief in the clarity that most permanent staff and faculty recruitments that are in process, as of March 31, 2025, can proceed without further approvals or delay. All previously signed offers of employment remain valid, including letters with a future appointment date. 

While a modest number of early-stage and visiting recruitments will require additional review by me (and, in turn, Provost Watkins), I anticipate that most, if not all, such recruitments will eventually be able to move forward. 

In my relief, I must still adopt a stance of scrutiny of the legitimate expenses associated with carrying out our research and instructional mission. I anticipate that we will be able to open new recruitments to fill planned and unplanned vacancies as well as to meet much-needed priorities for growth in faculty and staff FTE. However, the scale and pace of our hiring will be highly sensitive to the state, system, and campus budgets as well as our local budgetary position, including our revenues. I ask that each of us be mindful of the signal importance of strong undergraduate enrollments, especially among California residents, and the dollars that flow from their tuition and student credit workload.

Department chairs may expect the call for new Senate recruitments for appointments to begin July 1, 2026, or later, to go out in early May. 

Questions may be directed to your unit head or supervisor. Chairs and directors may contact me directly. 

I thank each of you for your contributions to the college. 

Daryle Williams
Professor and Dean