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Alumni Regent

Every six years, UC Davis has the opportunity to select an alumni representative to serve on the UC Board of Regents. It is a 2-year term with the first year served as the alumni-regent designate (participating but non-voting) and the second year as a voting alumni regent. The UC Davis Cal Aggie Alumni Association’s Board of Directors has created a new, more inclusive process to select the alumni regent starting with the selection of our alumni regent for the 2025-2027 year term.

About the Regents

The university is governed by The Regents, which under Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution has "full powers of organization and governance" subject only to very specific areas of legislative control. The article states that "the university shall be entirely independent of all political and sectarian influence and kept free therefrom in the appointment of its regents and in the administration of its affairs."

General Responsibilities

The selected alum to serve as UC Davis’s alumni regent will serve a 2-year term beginning July 1, 2025, and ending on June 30, 2027. In addition to serving as part of the UC Board of Regents, the representative will be recognized as an active officer of the Alumni Associations of UC (AAUC).

AAUC Officers

  • The four AAUC officers are the president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. Officers serve for two consecutive years; the first year as AAUC treasurer or secretary, the second year as president or vice president. Service on the Board of the Regents is tied to this two-year term: the AAUC treasurer and secretary serve as regents designates (without voting rights), and the AAUC president and vice president serve as full voting regents.
  • The primary role of the AAUC officers is to serve on the Board of Regents as alumni representatives, representing all UC alumni. The officers also serve as liaisons between the AAUC member organizations and the Board of Regents. Additionally, the officers provide programming leadership to the AAUC.

Alumni Regent Responsibilities

  • Provide regents meetings briefings at the quarterly AAUC meetings.
  • Promote awareness of alumni concerns among the Board of Regents.
  • Promote awareness of systemwide issues and concerns among AAUC member organizations by meeting with campus alumni association boards.
  • Represent the AAUC at regents’ functions, such as the annual regents’ dinner to honor alumni leadership, and all official AAUC functions.
  • Serve on special university-wide committees, regents’ task forces, or on standing committees of the regents.
  • As a member of the executive committee, assume a leadership role in assisting staff to implement existing AAUC programs, develop agenda items for AAUC meetings, and develop new systemwide alumni initiatives.
  • Play a key role in the annual UC Day event in Sacramento and assist in developing strategies for the recruitment and involvement of alumni advocates.

Time Commitment

  • Four quarterly AAUC meetings and dinners (4-5 hours each)
  • Participate in weekly AAUC officers’ conference calls (30 minutes each)
  • Attend 6 regents meetings (2 days each)
  • Meet with campus alumni boards (approximately 1 day per visit; 3 or 4 occasions annually)
  • Attend UC Day events in Sacramento—1-2 days
  • Attend the annual dinner - one half day
  • Attend meetings/events at the request of the regents as needed—varies
  • Attend at least one all-UC alumni event each year—1-2 days

Selection Process

The Selection Committee is made up of the CAAA Board of Directors' Nominations Committee and the chancellor or a representative of the chancellor. 

Applications will be open from December 16, 2024 until January 31st, 2025.  The selection process will conclude with an announcement of the next UC Davis alumni regent anticipated in mid-June, 2025.