• Working Group on Closing the Preparation Gap (March 2019)
  • Final Report
  • Charge Letter
  • Letter from Chancellor May and Provost Hexter

• Student Retention Advisory Committee 

• UC Davis Freedom of Expression Working Group (May 2017)

• L&S Visioning Committee (March 2016)

• Advisory Committee on Community-Engaged Scholarship (Fall 2015)
  • Advisory Committee on Community-Engaged Scholarship Charge
  • Community-Engaged Scholarship Report to the Provost
  • Provost's Response to Committee's Final Report

• Work Group on the Reorganization of L&S (May 2015)
  • Charge Letter
  • Letter from the Provost to the College of L&S (6.11.15)
  • L&S Reorganization Work Group Report (5.13.15)
  • Robert Stacey’s Comments on L&S Reorganization Work Group Report (5.27.15)
  • Karen Hanson’s comments on L&S Reorganization Work Group Report (6.7.15)

• Provost Implementation Advisory Committee for Graduate Education (PIACGE) (November 2014)
  • PIACGE Implementation Report
  • Letter to Vice Provost and Dean Gibeling—Acceptance of PIACGE Report
  • Letter to deans, department chairs, program directors, and graduate group chairs—Announcement of PIACGE Report

• Study Group on Accessibility and Affordability (June 2014)

• Joint Academic Senate / Administration Task Force on the Academic Organization of UC Davis (February 2014)
  • Letter from the Chancellor and Provost to the College of L&S (5.28.14)
  • Academic Organization of UC Davis: A White Paper to Spur Conversation (5.13.13)
  • Request for expressions of interest to serve on a Joint Academic Senate / Provost Task Force on the Academic Organization of UC Davis (5.16.13)
  • Academic Organization Task Force Report (2.3.14)
  • Joint Academic Organization Task Force Response (2.12.14)

• Joint Academic Senate / Administration Task Force on Analysis of Faculty Salary Equity at UC Davis (November 2013)
  • Charge Letter 
  • Final Report

• Provost’s Working Group on the Role of the Academic Federation in Achieving the "Vision of Excellence" (May 2013)
  • Charge Letter
  • Workgroup Final Report
  • Provost Response

• Big Data Implementation Committee (February 2013)
  • Charge Letter
  • Final Report Memo
  • Final Report
  • Provost's Response
  • Founding Director of Data Science Initiative Position Description

• Provost's Task Forces for the 2020 Initiative (November 2012)
  • June 2014 - 2020 Initiative Update
  • Final Report

• International Advisory Committee at UC Davis (June 2012)
  • In May 2011, the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor established an International Advisory Committee to recommend an overarching strategy for international engagement that will best serve the excellence and mission of UC Davis.
  • Final Report
  • International Advisory Committee at UC Davis
  • Charge Letter
  • Provost's Response

• Joint Academic Senate / Administration Special Senate Task Force on Graduate Education at UC Davis (May 2012)
  • The Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, in partnership with the Chair and Executive Committee of the Academic Senate, hereby establishes a Special Task Force whose primary goal is to recommend ways to advance the excellence, contributions, and vitality of graduate education at UC Davis.
  • Final Report
  • Joint Administration / Academic Senate Special Task Force on Graduate Education at UC Davis
  • Charge Letter
  • Public Forum, October 28, 2011

• Joint Academic Senate/ Administration Task Force on Off-Scale Salaries (February 2012)
  • In August 2011, the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor established a Task Force to provide advice and recommendations to the Provost regarding faculty off-scale salaries at UC Davis. The Task Force’s Final Report, completed in February 2012, is available here along with the original charge letter.
  • Final Report
  • Charge Letter

• Joint Academic Senate / Administration Task Force on Self-Supporting Degree Programs at UC Davis (report submitted January 2012)
  • In May 2011, the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor established a Task Force to provide advice and recommendations to the Provost regarding self-supporting degree programs at UC Davis. The Task Force’s Final Report, completed in January 2012, is available here along with earlier documents. (Items are listed in reverse chronological order.)
  • Final Report
  • Joint Academic Senate/Administration Task Force on Self-Supporting Degree Programs at UC Davis
  • Charge Letter

• UC Davis NAGPRA Advisory Committee (June 2011)
  • In June 2011, the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor reactivated and reconstituted the campus’s NAGPRA committee—now called the UC Davis NAGPRA Advisory Committee—in order to glean advice and recommendations in light of new regulations of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
  • UC Davis NAGPRA Advisory Committee
  • Charge Letter
• Task Force on Data Governance
  • Final Report