Launched in June 2023, the Sustaining Teaching and Research Task Force, or START, will assess challenges, prioritize strategies and recommend specific actions to bring about substantive improvements to our education, research and service models, thereby enhancing our ability to fulfill our mission at the highest levels of achievement.

The Assuring Faculty Equity and a Sustainable Workload Committee will develop recommendations to address teaching, research, and service responsibilities for all faculty, while also developing mechanisms for addressing the increased burden of administrative and compliance requirements placed on faculty over the past decade or more.

The committee's members are:

• Co-Chairs
• Estella Atekwana, Dean, College of Letters and Science
  Ted Powers, Executive Associate Dean, College of Biological Sciences
• Members
• Karen Bales, Professor, Psychology
  Melissa Bauman, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  Michael Brown (Ex-Officio), Past Provost and Executive Vice President, UC Office of the President
  Damian Chapman, Assistant Dean, School of Education
  Dipak Ghosal, Professor and Chair, Computer Science
  Russ Hovey, Professor, Animal Science
  Philip Kass, Vice Provost, Academic Affairs
  Timothy Lewis, Professor, Mathematics
  Giovanni Peri, Professor, Economics
  Megan Rott, Director of Human Resources, School of Veterinary Medicine
  Julie Sze, Professor, American Studies
  Richard Tucker, Distinguished Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
  Renetta Tull, Vice Chancellor, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  Kate Tweddale, Chief Administrative Officer, Chemistry
  Peter Wainwright, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Evolution and Ecology
  Janine Wilson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Economics
  Torry Winn, Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Education
  Marcia Woods (Staff), Project Analyst, Academic Affairs

Working Groups

The Assuring Faculty Equity and a Sustainable Workload Committee has formed working groups that will focus on specific topics and address the full range of questions submitted to START. The working groups and their chairs are:

• Teaching
• Estella Atekwana, Dean, College of Letters and Science
  Michael Brown (Ex-Officio), Past Provost and Executive Vice President, UC Office of the President
  Russ Hovey, Professor, Animal Science 
  Tim Lewis, Professor, Mathematics
  Peter Wainwright, Professor and Chair, Evolution and Ecology
  Janine Wilson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Economics
  Lawrence Torry Winn, Associate Professor of Teaching, Education
• Service
• Michael Brown (Ex-Officio), Past Provost and Executive Vice President, UC Office of the President
  Philip Kass, Vice Provost, Academic Affairs
  Ted Powers, Executive Associate Dean, College of Biological Sciences
  Julie Sze, Professor, American Studies
  Richard Tucker, Distinguished Professor, Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
• Research
• Melissa Bauman, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  Michael Brown (Ex-Officio), Past Provost and Executive Vice President, UC Office of the President
  Damian Chapman, Assistant Dean, Finance, Administration, and Strategy Development, School of Education
  Dipak Ghosal, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
  Giovanni Peri, Professor, Economics
  Ted Powers, Executive Associate Dean, College of Biological Sciences
• Administrative 
• Estella Atekwana, Dean, College of Letters and Science
  Karen Bales, Interim Director, California National Primate Research Center
  Michael Brown (Ex-Officio), Past Provost and Executive Vice President, UC Office of the President
  Philip Kass, Vice Provost, Academic Affairs
  Megan Rott, Director of Human Resources, School of Veterinary Medicine
  Renetta Garrison Tull, Vice Chancellor, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  Kate Tweddale, Chief Administrative Officer, Department of Chemistry
  Marcia Woods, Project Analyst, Academic Affairs