ANR Update

[UPDATED APRIL 16, 2019, to correct Linda Katehi's title to Chancellor.] Dear Colleagues, I know many of you worked with Charley Hess. I have learned that Charley passed away Saturday at home with family following a long bout with congestive heart failure.

The University invites comments on a proposed new Academic Personnel Manual Section 011 (APM - 011), Academic Freedom, Protection of Professional Standards, and Responsibilities of Non-faculty Academic Appointees.

Dear Colleagues, Protecting California's natural resources and building climate-resilient communities and ecosystems are two of UC ANR's core public values so naturally we are proud to join our colleagues throughout the UC system to promote climate-smart strategies and engage in the UC's Cool Campus...

Dear Colleagues, The University of California is on its way to becoming the first university system to wipe out its carbon footprint by 2025, as part of President Napolitano's Carbon Neutrality Initiative. We can do it, but only if we do it together.

Colleagues, Last month, Strategic Communications and IT soft-launched the website redesign project to test the site in the live environment and complete bug fixes before an official launch was announced. Bug fixes are complete, so we are now happy to share broadly that the site is live.