Students, staff, faculty and special guests will gather Wednesday, Sept. 28, in a festive and traditional ceremony to inaugurate Larry N. Vanderhoef as the fifth chancellor of the University of California, Davis. The campuswide event will be combined with the annual fall convocation, in which the campus celebrates the start of a new academic year. The convocation/inauguration will begin at 10 a.m. in Recreation Hall. Vanderhoef, 53, who joined the campus administration in 1984, was named chancellor by the UC Board of Regents last April, succeeding Theodore L. Hullar as UC Davis' chief administrator. Vanderhoef joined the Davis campus in 1984 as executive vice chancellor, gained the added title of provost in 1991 and was named acting chancellor last March. He also is a professor in the campus's Division of Biological Sciences and a botanist in the Experiment Station. Before his recruitment to UC, Vanderhoef joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1970 and served as chair of the plant biology department from 1977 to 1980. He then became provost of the Division of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. At the inaugural celebration, UC President Jack W. Peltason will formally invest the new chancellor with the responsibilities and privileges of office. The keynote address, titled "Searching for Community," will be delivered by Occidental College President John B. Slaughter -- who was chancellor at the University of Maryland, College Park, when Vanderhoef was provost there. An electrical engineer, Slaughter was appointed director of the National Science Foundation by former President Jimmy Carter in 1980. He was named chancellor of the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1982 and in 1988 he assumed the presidency of Occidental College. A former chair of the Presidents' Commission of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Slaughter is co-editor of the book "The Rules of the Game: Ethics in College Sports." The inauguration ceremony will begin with a procession of UC Regents, members of the Davis faculty in full academic regalia, and delegates from sister institutions and learned societies and associations. Following the address by Slaughter and the ceremony of investiture, Vanderhoef will give his inaugural/convocation address, titled "The Changing Ethos of Higher Education." Music for the ceremony will be provided by the UCD Symphony Orchestra, with Professor D. Kern Holoman conducting; the University Chorus and Theatre of Voices, with Associate Professor Paul Hillier conducting; and by soprano Lenore Turner-Heinson. Following the inauguration and convocation, a public reception will be held in a canopied area on the lawn adjacent to Recreation Hall. The California Aggie Marching Band will provide entertainment.