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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>MEMORANDUM <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:40.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-40.5pt;line-height:normal'><b>From: </b>Wanda Howell and Joel Cuello, Co-Chairs, Faculty Consultative Group (FCG) on CALS Effectiveness, Efficiency and Innovation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:40.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-40.5pt;line-height:normal'><b>To:</b> All CALS Faculty<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:normal'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:40.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-40.5pt;line-height:normal'><b>Subject: </b>Providing Inputs to the Faculty Consultative Group (FCG) on CALS Effectiveness, Efficiency and Innovation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='color:black'>The FCG has been tasked to formulate recommendations on how we can more efficiently manage and utilize resources to achieve greater effectiveness in carrying out our three-fold mission of teaching, research and extension. This work requires the input of all faculty across the College.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>There will be two avenues for CALS faculty to provide inputs to the FCG: (1) through a CALS website that is currently being set up through which comments could be entered by the Faculty at any time until April 5, 2012; and (2) through a CALS Faculty Town Hall Meeting to be scheduled around the middle of April, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Inputs to be obtained from the Faculty will center on principal challenges/constraints for CALS, major sources of inefficiencies in our current system of operation, and creative and innovative solutions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Information about the website and the schedule of the CALS Faculty Town Hall Meeting will be provided within the next two weeks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>Following are the members of the FCG, representing a balanced cross-section of the various disciplines within CALS in accord with the criteria for balanced representation employed in the CALS <span style='color:black'>Post Tenure Review Committee</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>Wanda Howell, Co-Chair, Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>Joel Cuello, Co-Chair, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>Roger Dahlgran, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Resource Economics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>D. Phillip Guertin, Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>Sabrina Helm, Associate Professor, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>James Knight, Professor, Department of Agricultural Education<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>Brian Larkins, Professor, The School of Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal'>Edward Martin, Professor/Specialist, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>