Hello, CALS,
I hope you all had a good weekend and are finding time to enjoy this emerging fall weather! Just a few quick notes for today.
Please watch out for our students and help them along as best you can, or refer them to others who might be able to. There is plenty of stress and concern among our students given the nature of these times. Coming out of the pandemic's most intense times of isolation and changed learning environments, our current students are different from prior cohorts of students, and we, too, are different. All together we need to pay extra attention to each other. Thanks!
Don't forget to attend CALS Week events going on this week! Read today's CALS Online newsletter for more details about the various activities planned.
As you have heard before, and will be presented at our upcoming CALS Town Hall Oct. 10, there is an effort underway for college strategic planning, which we are defining as the combination of a new Statement of Purpose, Listing of Strategic Priorities, and then defining rolling Strategic Initiatives for each department/unit and the college overall. We will have all kinds of ways to provide feedback, including via the new website that will be regularly updated, posters around the college, and other means.
Where we are so far is the work of the core team led by Associate Dean Carolyn Lawrence-Dill, and including Amy Kaleita, Nate Dobbels, Virginia Hansen, Justin Roberson and Kendall Lamkey. Their work and the outcomes so far is based on several focus groups:
- CALS faculty senate caucus,
- CALS staff council,
- college and department leadership,
- college diversity equity and inclusion,
- college undergrad and graduate student leaders, and
- several external partners providing insights.
Please review the website (and/or the CALS Strategic Planning Flyer 2022) to become informed about this, and to consider offering your ideas to the process!
My best - Dan
Scenes from CALS
Members of the U.S. Farm Report team were on campus last week taping several interviews for their 2022 College Road Show. The interviews will serve to highlight some of the innovative work and research going on within CALS. Thursday afternoon, they did a taping on central campus just outside Curtiss Hall, complete with interactions from CALS students in the audience.
