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2025 Year in Review

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FOA works to make UC Davis better every day by delivering thoughtful, innovative and responsible stewardship of university resources.

In addition to keeping UC Davis systems operating smoothly on a daily basis, FOA leaders identify strategic goals each year for improvements and innovations. These goals cut across five key themes:

  • Stewarding Resources: Maximizing business effectiveness through responsible and innovative stewardship of financial resources.
  • Engaging People: Fostering an inclusive, engaging and rewarding workplace environment for our diverse workforce.
  • Cultivating Place: Maintaining and improving our indoor and outdoor spaces while keeping operations and experiences smooth.
  • Enhancing Safety: Advancing safety awareness, emergency services and risk management for a thriving community.
  • Prioritizing Service: Expanding a customer-centric culture, focused on continuous service improvement.

FOA's mix of teams

The division is home to 1,700 staffers who provide critical campus services at UC Davis and UC Davis Health, including:

  • Administrative Innovation and Technology
  • Budget and Institutional Analysis
  • Design and Construction Management
  • Facilities Management
  • Finance
  • Fire Department
  • Human Resources
  • Police Department
  • Safety Services

More About FOA

 

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Collaboration helps campus shine bright

FOA teams partnered across campus to renovate Touchdown Tower, not only improving safety and maintenance on this iconic structure, but helping shine a brighter light on Aggie pride.
More about Touchdown Tower

2025 Year in Review with FOA

Scaffolding around the legs of a water tower on the UC Davis campus

Protecting a Landmark: UC Davis Water Tower Restoration Underway

  • by Katie Hetrick
  • June 03, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • University News
UC Davis’ iconic water tower located across the way from UC Davis Health Stadium — affectionately known as “Touchdown Tower” — is undergoing a significant restoration.
A group of four people cut a ribbon outside of Aggie Square

UC Davis’ Aggie Square Formally Inaugurated: Sacramento Innovation District Comes to Life With Labs, Classrooms, Community Spaces

  • by James Nash
  • May 02, 2025
  • FOA Goals
Opening a new chapter in the University of California, Davis’ role as a regional engine of innovation and economic growth, Chancellor Gary S. May joined city of Sacramento leaders, developer Wexford Science & Technology LLC, business partners and community members Friday to inaugurate Aggie Square, the $1.1 billion innovation district that will bring together the university’s cutting-edge research with private-sector companies and startups
An EMT in a UC Davis shirt with a box of supplies, unlocks the Narcan cabinet in the Memorial Union

UC Davis Fire Helps Make Lifesaving Overdose Meds More Available

  • by Brenda Dawson
  • April 02, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • University News
Campus distribution of naloxone — a life-saving opioid antidote that can be used by bystanders — dramatically increased this year, thanks to the UC Davis Fire Department's new distribution sites with public access and extended hours.
Graphic reads "Pack it in. Pack it out" with silhouetted illustrations of Gunrock, the horse mascot, carrying waster

Pack It In, Pack It Out: Changes Coming to Office and Cubicle Custodial Services

  • by Katie Ferguson Hetrick
  • March 17, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • University News
Beginning in April 2025, Facilities Management is ending all services to offices and cubicles, including trash and recycling collection. 
walkers on a crosswalk approach a stop sign with vehicles nearby

7 Ways UC Davis Is Improving Traffic Safety on Campus

  • by Brenda Dawson
  • February 07, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • University News
Recent campus improvements aim to eliminate traffic tragedies by slowing speeds, increasing visibility and improving awareness — as UC Davis makes progress on its path toward "Vision Zero."
People evacuating Mrak Hall during drill

New Plans Seek to Streamline Building Evacuations

  • by Julie Huang
  • February 05, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • University News
UC Davis Department Safety Coordinators, or DSCs, have worked together with Emergency Management to update the process and documentation for implementing building evacuation plans, establishing a repository of newly approved Emergency Action Plans.
Syerra Logan, Mike Legrand and Jen Carmichael

FOA Honors Employees With Excellence Awards in Innovation, Collaboration and Resilience

  • January 29, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • FOA Staff News
This year’s FOA Excellence Awards spotlight individuals who redefined expectations. Whether transforming campus logistics, building bridges across departments or leading through challenges, these honorees embody the innovation, collaboration and resilience that define UC Davis.
People evacuating Mrak Hall during drill

New Plans Seek to Streamline Building Evacuations

  • by Julie Huang
  • January 28, 2025
  • FOA Goals
  • University News
UC Davis Department Safety Coordinators, or DSCs, have worked together with Emergency Management to update the process and documentation for implementing building evacuation plans, establishing a repository of newly approved Emergency Action Plans.
Students outside Maria Manetti Shrem Art Hall

Art District and Renamed Art Hall Get New Signs

  • by Dateline Staff
  • January 14, 2025
  • FOA Goals
New signage arrived recently to name the Maria Manetti Shrem Art District, spanning Hutchison Drive from the historic TB 9 art building to Shields Library. It bears the name of Maria Manetti Shrem in of her support of multiple disciplines and her vision to bolster collaboration among them with a holistic approach to the arts.

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Goals by Theme

Stewarding Resources Engaging People Cultivating Place Enhancing Safety Prioritizing Service

By FOA Operating Unit

Administrative Innovation and Technology Budget and Institutional Analysis Design and Construction Management Facilities Management Finance Human Resources Safety Services Police Department Fire Department

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