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Academic Task Force - College Design: CNR/COAFES/CHE

Mission

To create a plan for integrating the College of Natural Resources, the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, and the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, with the goal to enhance the University’s potential to become one of the premier research institutions in the world dedicated to food systems, environmental science, renewable resources, and policy, consistent with the University’s goal to become one of the top three public research universities in the world.

Deliverables

• Recommendations for a strategy to position the University as one of the premier research institutions in the world dedicated to environmental research, food systems, and renewable resources.  The strategy should bring the intellectual and disciplinary diversity of the University, currently dispersed across multiple colleges, to bear on national and global issues regarding the environment, food, and renewable resources.
• Recommendations regarding the optimal design, structure, and organization of the new college.
• Recommendations regarding units in other parts of the University whose placement and connections should be reviewed in relationship to the newly formed college.
• Recommendations for a longer-term strategic plan and strategies for the development of the college.

• Recommendations for a strategy to enhance the University’s potential to become one of the premier research institutions in the world dedicated to environmental research. The strategy should bring the current intellectual and disciplinary diversity of the University, currently dispersed across multiple colleges, to bear on global environmental issues.
• Recommendations on how to coordinate and support closer ties in research and teaching of environmental, food, and renewable resources with advances in the biological sciences.
• Recommendations on how the new college can be a model for the promotion of active public engagement.
• Recommendations regarding the name and mission of the new college.

Report due: December 10, 2005

Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs Allen Levine, Professor and Head, Food Sci/Nutrition, CHE, COAFES Deborah Swackhamer, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, SPH, CNR Ron Phillips, Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair Agronomy and Plant Genetics, COAFES Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Adam Birr Graduate student, Soil, Water, and Climate, COAFES Jerry Cohen Professor, Horticultural Science, COAFES David Johnson Former President & CEO, Cenex/Land O'Lakes Anne Kapuscinski Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, CNR Steve Polasky Professor, Applied Economics, COAFES Robert Stine Associate Dean and Director, Cloquet Forestry Center, CNR Kathryn VandenBosch Professor, Plant Biology, CBS Jim Marshall Forest Resources Manager, UPM Blandin Paper Company

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