Hi everyone,
Many of you may not have heard the news that CALS Dean Susan Henry will
be stepping down at the end of her term, and that the search for a
replacement is already underway.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/HenryToStepDown.html
NWAEG at Cornell sees this as an opportunity to make sure our voices and
values are heard during the selection process. We will be meeting with
Ron Seeber, the vice provost for land grant affairs, on 9-18. We
encourage other groups on campus and in the community to set up similar
meetings, but we'd also like to get together and work on a cohesive
message with respect to the kind of sustainable agriculture education
we'd like to see supported in the college.
If you can't make the meeting (details below), please feel free to share
your ideas through this list.
Hope to see you there,
NWAEG at Cornell
Sara Rostampour - president
Megan Gregory - vice president
Sam Bosco - treasurer
Jennifer Gardner - secretary
Jahi Chappell - advisor
Allison Jack - occasional webmaster
Our 170 members: graduate students, undergraduate students, staff, a
smattering of faculty, citizens, & farmers here and around the country
NWAEG at Cornell
www.rso.cornell.edu/nwaeg
NWAEG International
http://www.nwaeg.org/
Sustainable Agriculture Education Association
http://www.sustainableaged.org/
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*Community Meeting:*
*Tuesday September 15th
Plant Science Building (Tower Rd.) Rm 404
4-6 pm*
Goals of the meeting:
1) Brainstorm and refine our main message to Mr. Seeber on what
qualities we would like to see in the new Dean
2) Decide how best to advocate for a student and farmer seat on the
official search committee (and brainstorm who would fill these seats)
Invited groups: Please _pass this invitation along_ to anyone you think
would be interested in participating.
*Cornell Groups:*
FANG
Dilmun Hill
Farm to Cornell
Slow Food Cornell
CIIFAD
Farmworkers Coalition
Co-ops (Watermargin, EcoHouse, etc.)
Small Farms
World Food Crisis Conference organizers in Dev Soc
Sustainability Hub
*Community groups:*
Sustainable Tompkins
TC Local
NOFA-NY
Whole Community Initiative
NYCO
Groundswell
Hawthorn Valley Farm - School
Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension
*This event is free and open to the Cornell and greater Ithaca community
with financial support from the GPSAFC*
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Allison L H Jack
Graduate Student
Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
http://pppmb.cals.cornell.edu
Cornell University
335 Plant Science
Ithaca, NY 14850
607.273.5762
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