- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Colleagues,
This week President Napolitano will begin sending invitations to UC students, faculty and staff to sign up to receive her monthly letter to the UC community. I am writing to let you know that the email with the subject line “President Napolitano invites you to connect” is genuine. You may have already received the email, which is being distributed over the coming weeks to minimize impact on email servers.
You must opt in to be included and I encourage you to subscribe to President Napolitano’s letter to learn what she is doing and to share your thoughts.
Bob Sams
Executive Director
Communication Services and Information Technology
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Celebrities, UC employees, students and people from all across California are tapping into their social media networks and making promises to raise money for UC student scholarships.
VP Barbara Allen-Diaz has made her own daring promise. If she can raise $2,500 by Halloween, Allen-Diaz promises to wear a colony of bees, highlighting the importance of pollinators to the health of agriculture and the planet. If she raises $5,000, she promises to eat protein-rich insects, a plentiful and low-cost source of protein critical to meeting the world’s growing food demand.
Assistant VP Tu Tran is making a promise on the VP’s promise. “If Barbara does the bee thing, I will donate $500,” Tu said....
- Author: Michael L. Poe
An ANR leadership meeting was held June 28 at the UC Davis Activities & Recreation Center. In addition to the Executive Working Group, Strategic Initiative leaders, executive associate deans, county directors, statewide program directors, REC directors, and unit directors attended.
Dan Dooley, Barbara Allen-Diaz, Kay Harrison Taber, Bill Frost, Bob Sams and Don Klingborg gave updates on ANR’s budget and restructuring efforts that have been completed or are under way.
For the majority of the meeting, the participants formed break out groups to discuss four questions and brainstorm answers.
The four questions were:
- How do we as ANR’s leadership catalyze the development of internal...