Dear Colleagues,
The University of California is on its way to becoming the first university system to wipe out its carbon footprint by 2025, as part of President Napolitano's Carbon Neutrality Initiative. We can do it, but only if we do it together.
Participating in UC's collective effort will demonstrate UC ANR's commitment to protecting California's natural resources and building climate-resilient communities and ecosystems.
That's why I'm asking you to join in the Cool Campus Challenge and move us closer to becoming carbon-free. ANR is teaming up with UCOP for the challenge, and we'll compete on the side against the other UCOP units.
If you sign up, you'll get weekly emails with actions you can...
- Author: Linda Forbes
Colleagues,
Last month, Strategic Communications and IT “soft-launched” the website redesign project to test the site in the live environment and complete bug fixes before an official launch was announced. Bug fixes are complete, so we are now happy to share broadly that the site is live.
Why the new design?
Goals of the web design project include:
- Improve the content structure and new top down navigation for the ucanr.edu home page and high level pages beneath ucanr.edu
- Increase utility and discoverability of news and event information on ucanr.edu
- Resolve major brand inconsistencies across the Division's web presence
- Better showcase the...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
ANR Human Resources will host two more Zoom webinars for staff and supervisors in March:
- Employee Role: March 20, Wed., 10 a.m.–11 a.m.
- Supervisor Role: March 26, Tuesday, 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/8151602829
- Telephone US: +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 558 8656
- Meeting ID: 815-160-2829
This year ANR Human Resources has modified the Employee Performance Appraisal Form to align with the UC system-wide core competencies and to prepare supervisors and employees for the future online appraisal...
A major factor in job satisfaction is the extent to which people feel part of a wider supportive community. Such connections have historically been offered in UC ANR through various means, including our structural units (i.e., our 81 workgroups, 21 program teams and 5 strategic initiatives).
Healthy organizations should regularly look at their structure. Important elements of structure include how the pieces fit together and how people may better connect to more effectively implement their work. In the summer of 2018, we began a series of discussions and surveys to revisit aspects of our structure.
Thank you to the 120-plus people who provided input on our structure and suggestions regarding how we may...
Please join ANR leaders for a virtual town hall discussion March 21 from 11 a.m. to noon.
[A recording of this town hall can be viewed at https://ucanr.zoom.us/recording/share/cDyQszkVruRcozHg2JVp8YJqy5V0s_4InlDmDgpa7Q6wIumekTziMw.]
In an effort to better connect ANR members across state, we will hold an hour-long town hall via Zoom to update you on UCPath, ANR's budget and other current topics and answer your questions.
Glenda Humiston, Tu Tran and I will be participating to provide information and answer questions.
During the town hall, participants may submit questions and comments via the...
