Board of regents meeting
June 5, 2018
The board approved adding the Cooperative Extension Services as a stand-alone unit and eliminating the School of Natural Resources and Extension . SNRE’s academic programs will move into the College of Natural Science and Mathematics. The changes take effect at the end of next fiscal year, on June 30, 2019.
On May 22, Chancellor Daniel M. White notified employees in the affected units about the specific reorganization request that was to go before the board. The reorganization has been in the process of being developed for several months with input from a committee of natural resource management and CNSM faculty, and planning will continue for the next year.
The board also approved two new degree programs: the Bachelor of Applied Management and the Bachelor of Sport and Recreation Business degrees. More news about the BOR meeting, including the recently approved budget, is on the UA website.
June 13 addendum from the Faculty Senate: The UAF Faculty Senate would like to clarify a point in the above June 5, 2018, Cornerstone article on the Board of Regents' approval of making the Cooperative Extension Service into a stand-alone unit, and moving the natural resource management faculty into the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. While it is true that a committee of natural resource management and CNSM faculty has been tasked to implement this change, faculty in SNRE and CNSM were not asked to provide input into whether the School of Natural Resources and Extension should be reorganized.