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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi sustainability folks. Just forwarding this message from the Provost. If you are interested in serving on the Faculty Advisory Committee on Sustainability (FACS) next year (typically renewed for a second
year), please drop me an email <mdawson@ucmerced.edu> with a brief description of relevant expertise (100-150 words).– Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">During this year’s strategic planning, the campus community highlighted sustainability as both an attribute that makes UC Merced distinctive and also an area that requires further commitment. The representative
faculty body charged with promoting coordinated programming in sustainability, the Faculty Advisory Committee on Sustainability (FACS) — a grass roots faculty initiative support by the Provost & EVC since 2018 — is making its annual call for new members.
This year, two vacancies exist: one senate faculty in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts and one in the School of Engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Details on the charge, and appointment of members, to the committee are below. Whether or not you have been involved in these efforts to date, and regardless of your school, if you have active interests in
sustainability, I encourage you to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you or a colleague would like to help shape the future of sustainability at UC Merced by serving on the Faculty Advisory Committee on Sustainability, please send a (self-)nomination — including name and
100-150 words describing relevant expertise and interests for the position — to the FACS Chair, Michael Dawson, <mdawson@ucmerced.edu> before close-of-business on Friday 21st May, 2021.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nominated faculty ideally will have experience in sustainability research, teaching, service and/or community engagement and be oriented toward institutional strategic planning and programming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Appointments are for 1 year, renewable for a second.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you in advance for your interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Signed, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gregg Camfield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The charge of the current phase of the Faculty Advisory Committee on Sustainability is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To enhance long-term development of an integrated Sustainability Initiative across campus, in association with appropriate partners, by:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– developing sustainability goals for 2025 and 2030<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– identifying and recommending actions that will attain 2025 and 2030 goals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– establishing annual initiatives and objectives in consultation with the EVC and Provost<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– identifying priorities for research and teaching within the campus sustainability vision, thus enhancing student success and leveraging opportunities to accelerate achievement of R1 status<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– advising on academic and research activities that improve campus’ sustainability rankings
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– evaluating strategies for further long-term development of integrated Sustainability planning across the campus, in association with appropriate partners
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– developing grant proposals to support growth of sustainability education and research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– coordinating with administration to identify long-term funding opportunities,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– establishing and enacting objective and inclusive procedures to distribute short- and long-term funding for awards, events, seed grants, and communications,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– coordinating with campus and system-wide committees on sustainability to achieve UC goals, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">– recommending mechanisms for future phases of the Sustainability Initiative.
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