- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dear Colleagues,
I am happy to announce that we have appointed advisory panel members for four of the five ANR strategic initiatives. The advisory panels will be working with the initiative leaders to develop a five-year plan of action for implementing each initiative. If you have suggestions for shaping the plans of action, I encourage you to share them with the appropriate initiative leader or panel members.
Once the plans of action have been developed, ANR will provide competitive funds that can be used to attract faculty and researchers and extension advisors to ultimately provide research and education to fulfill the initiatives’ objectives.
We are working on appointing an initiative leader and an advisory panel for Water Quality, Quantity and Security (WQQS). The appointed strategic initiative leaders and panels are at http://ucanr.org/PDFs/2-17-10.pdf.
Sincerely,
Barbara Allen-Diaz
Associate Vice President, Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Working to combat a steep slide in state support for higher education, UC advocates are planning large rallies in Sacramento this spring to persuade lawmakers that public higher education should be a funding priority.
The UC Student Association on March 1 will hold a rally and press conference at the state Capitol. UC President Mark G. Yudof, along with several UC regents and chancellors, will join student organizers later in the day for meetings with key legislative leaders.
"Our students are a critical voice in delivering our message to Sacramento, and it's great to see them engaging in this way," said Yudof. "We are honoring the wishes of the UCSA leaders and not taking a role in their public rally, but we will be visiting legislative leaders together that day to show our solidarity and to express how much we all care about UC's future."
To read more, go to http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22810.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
VP Dooley has recorded a video message to update the ANR family about the governor’s state budget proposal, progress in our restructuring around the Strategic Vision, and advocacy.
Please view the video at your convenience above or at http://ucanr.org/dooley020810. A transcript is available at http://ucanr.org/Dooley02-2010.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Want to share your views about UC pension and retiree health benefits? You can do so via a short, confidential, online survey.
Just go to the Future of UC Retirement Benefits Web site between Feb. 5 and March 1 and select the survey button. The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete and all answers are confidential.
Your responses will help the President’s Task Force on Post-employment Benefits better understand employee preferences about financially sustainable options for future retirement benefits.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
ANR has received approval to implement the Furlough Exchange Program (FEP) for Cooperative Extension (CE) advisors and non-campus-based CE specialists who are subject to the Salary Reduction/Furlough Plan. The FEP allows eligible ANR academics to devote extra effort to research projects instead of using furlough time. In exchange for not being furloughed, individuals may charge an equivalent amount of effort to extramural funding, subject to granting agency approval. Individuals may elect to begin FEP on Jan. 1, 2010.
Individuals who elect to participate in this program will forfeit their furlough days and therefore will be expected to work during ANR/campus closures. During the period of FEP participation, furlough days forfeited may not be used for any other purpose, including additional consulting days.
Implementation guidelines and the form that must be completed and approved are at http://groups.ucanr.org/Academic_Personnel/Furlough_Information/.
For more information, contact Carolyn Frazier at (530) 752-7497 or cvfrazier@ucdavis.edu .