Jason Stewart, assistant director in the Office of Budget and Institutional Analysis, has been selected as the assistant executive vice chancellor and chief of staff to Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan. Stewart, who has served as interim in the role since November 2022, was selected through a competitive hiring process.

“Jason has been an incredible asset to the campus for more than a decade and we are very fortunate to have him join our team,” said Croughan. “He has worked hard to build collaborative relationships across the campus and with the UC Office of the President, and he has moved forward numerous high-impact initiatives. He will continue to inform and elevate the work we do so that our campus can best serve faculty, staff, students, and the public.”

During his 14 years at UC Davis, Stewart has served in a variety of roles, including nine years as assistant director in Budget and Institutional Analysis. Since joining the Office of the Provost as interim chief of staff, he has assisted with the campuswide annual budget process, enrollment planning, executive recruitments and several task forces and steering committees. Stewart is serving on the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accreditation Steering Committee and supporting the Sustaining Teaching and Research Task Force (START), recently launched by the provost.

As assistant director of Institutional Support and Enrollment Management in UC Davis’s Office of Budget and Institutional Analysis, Stewart led a team gathering, analyzing, and reporting data to inform leadership. He was integral in standing up web-based dashboards that provide enrollment and employee data for a variety of decision-making needs, and he developed a model for classroom utilization that contributed to the configuration of the Teaching and Learning Complex. Stewart was a key advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing data that included vaccination rates for students and staff, and other vital information that was regularly reported to UCOP and the public. He and his team drafted updates for regular campuswide COVID-19 pandemic communications and also provided staff support for the executive work group managing campus operational needs.

While serving as interim university registrar in 2022, Stewart oversaw 25 staff and 22 student assistants who work in a variety of capacities, including classroom assignments, transcript and diploma distribution, and front-line student support. He also served part-time as a senior advisor to the vice chancellor of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from 2019 to 2022.

Stewart joined UC Davis as a principal budget analyst in 2009. He was the project manager for the team that created a campuswide budget model that continues to serve as a tool for allocating more than $600 million in campus resources. He also developed new revenue allocation and cost recovery models that continue to be used across campus.

Stewart holds a Master of Public Management degree from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Memphis.