NCAA Division I Certification: Steering Committee

Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef

Steering Committee Chair: Stan Nosek, Vice Chancellor for Administration

Academic Senate Chair: Daniel Simmons, Professor, Law School

CEO Designee: Judy Sakaki, Vice Chancellor–Student Affairs

Faculty Athletics Representative: *Kim Elsbach, Professor, School of Management

Athletic Director: **Greg Warzecka

Senior Woman Administrator: **Pam Gill-Fisher, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Campus Liaison

Academic Federation Chair:  *Cathy VandeVoort, Associate Adjunct  Professor, Reproductive Biology

Title IX Officer:  Dennis Shimek, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources

Minority Affairs Officer: Rahim Reed, Associate Executive Vice Chancellor for Office of Campus Community Relations

Governance Subcommittee Chair: *Ted DeJong, Professor, Pomology

Academic Integrity Subcommittee Chair: Deb Niemeier, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering 

Equity Subcommittee Chair: Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Acting Professor, Law School

Student-Athlete Welfare: John Gates, Associate Professor, Political Science

Subcommittee Chair:                                   

Alumna: Pam Schmeiser

Current Student (non-athlete): *Stephen Sampson (junior)

Current Student-Athlete: Jackie Turpin (senior), Captain-Women’s Basketball Team and Co-Chair, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)

Report Writer: Bill Kidder, Senior Policy Analyst–Student Affairs

Staff to Committee: Amie Smith, Athletics

* = Member of the Athletics Administrative Advisory Committee (AAAC), which is the UC Davis version of the “athletics board” described in the NCAA’s Self-Study Instrument.  AAAC currently consists of the Faculty Athletic Representative, 10 other faculty members, one administrator, one staff person, five students (athletes and non-athletes), and five non-voting members from Athletics and Financial Aid.  Note that several other professors on the Certification Steering Committee and subcommittees are not on AAAC this academic year, but have recently served on AAAC.

** = Ex Officio, non-voting member of AAAC