UC Davis chancellor to step down
Larry N. Vanderhoef
Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef will step down in June 2009, at the end of the campus's centennial year.
A nationwide search for a new chancellor will be initiated, and a committee with regent, faculty, staff, student, alumni and foundation board representatives will be named to advise UC President Mark Yudof on hiring Vanderhoef's successor.
Vanderhoef, appointed in 1994 as UC Davis' fifth chancellor, is one of the nation's longest-serving university leaders.
"I can't imagine greater good fortune than to have spent the past 24 years at UC Davis," Vanderhoef said in a letter to the campus community. "Along the way, there have been challenges to be sure, but together we have helped this remarkable university to reach higher, to be bolder and to achieve great distinction. For those years and those opportunities, I will always be grateful."
He joined UC Davis in 1984, first serving as executive vice chancellor and then provost/executive vice chancellor. After what will be a full quarter century of service to UC Davis, he will take a yearlong sabbatical, and then return to the faculty as a professor of plant biology. He will also continue to support the campus as chancellor emeritus.