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Executive Update: Week of December13
December 17, 2015 at 1:56 PM
Ragan A. Squier rasquier@esf.edu
Executive Update: Week of December 13, 2015
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Tree Sales at Lafayette Road
End Dec. 20
The college's annual sale of pre-cut
Christmas trees and wreaths runs
through Sunday, Dec. 20.
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College Strategic Plan
Steering Committee Meeting
10 a.m. to noon, Monday, Dec. 21,
408 Baker Laboratory
Semester Break Begins This
Weekend
Final exams for the fall semester
conclude this Friday, Dec. 18.
Classes for the spring semester will
begin Tuesday, Jan.19. We extend a
wish to all members of the College
community for a safe and restful
break. We look forward to seeing
everyone back for the spring.
View the complete events calendar
IN THIS ISSUE
A Message from the President
President Wheeler Works with SU
Regarding Tuition Waivers for ESF
Employees' Dependents
Status Report: SU Student Services and IT
Sears Associates Presents Preliminary
Report about Campus Assessment Effort
Strategic Plan Development Proceeding;
Steering Committee Chair Elected
Presentation Updating Campus
Community on ESF's State Operating
Budget
Comprehensive Portfolio of Capital and
Critical Maintenance Projects Available
ESF Participates in White House Briefing
on Paris Climate Talks
A MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT
Another successful semester
is in the history books. I am
ESF in the News
An Honor for Dr. Neil Murphy
Sorry about the faulty link last
week. Please go here for the
complete story about the honor
Dr. Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr.,
received from the U.S. Green
Building Council.
continually impressed and
amazed by our students.
They embody a positive spirit
of making the world better
that I have not seen at any
other institution. I am no less
impressed by our staff who
so consistently go far above and beyond
expectations to make ESF successful on all
fronts, and by our fantastic faculty who deliver a
uniquely excellent educational experience while
uniquely excellent educational experience while
pushing the forefront of diverse disciplines in
the sciences, engineering, management, design,
and scholarship. Given trends and needs in
science, technology, and society, if ESF did not
exist, we would be well advised to create an
institution like it.
For each of you, I wish a well-deserved, restful,
and peace-filled holiday break. I look forward to
recharging my batteries with some time to be
with loved ones, a little woodworking and
writing, and some quiet reflection on ESF's
accomplishments to date and the exciting
opportunities that lie ahead. Whatever
replenishes you, enjoy!
My best to students, faculty, staff, alumni,
trustees, and other partners.
Quentin Wheeler, Ph.D.
President
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
President Wheeler Works with SU
Regarding Tuition Waivers for ESF
Employees' Dependents
The issue of partial tuition waivers for ESF
employees' dependents who enroll at SU in (or
after) the fall of 2016 is under discussion
between President Wheeler and SU Chancellor
Kent Syverud. Currently, the dependents of
employees who were hired before Sept. 1, 2010,
receive an 85 percent tuition waiver. Those ESF
employees' dependents already enrolled at SU
will continue to receive the waivers. An
announcement about waivers for those yet to
enroll will be made as soon as details are
known.
Status Report: SU Student Services
and IT
ESF has purchased services, access to facilities
and programming for its students through SU
and programming for its students through SU
since the College was founded in 1911. In 1948,
when the College became part of SUNY it was
determined that rather than replicating many of
the instructional and student services provided
by SU, the College would instead contract with
SU to provide these services.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Sears Associates Presents
Preliminary Report about Campus
Assessment Effort
Sears Associates was engaged by the SUNY
Provost's Office to help ESF address concerns
related to campus relationships and leadership.
Ann Martin, Judith Saul and Scott Sears of Sears
Associates were in attendance for the entire
Academic Governance meeting Dec. 15. They
presented a brief summary of their activities to
date and recommendations for next steps. Click
Here to view report and presentation.
Strategic Plan Development
Proceeding; Steering Committee
Chair Elected
The ESF Strategic Plan Steering
Committee has been meeting
and working diligently since
Oct 5. At this week's meeting,
the members elected Dr. Chris
Nowak of the Department of
Forest and Natural Resources
Management to chair the
Dr. Chris Nowak
group.
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Presentation Updates Campus
Community on ESF's State Operating
Budget
Vice President for Administration Joseph Rufo
presented an update of ESF's state operating
budget at the Academic Governance meeting
Dec. 15. Click Here to view presentation.
Comprehensive Portfolio of Capital
and Critical Maintenance Projects
and Critical Maintenance Projects
Available
Brian Boothroyd, assistant director of Physical
Plant for facilities, gave an extensive
presentation at the Dec. 15 Academic
Governance meeting about ongoing and planned
capital improvements and critical maintenance
projects at ESF's main campus and remote
locations.
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ESF Participates in White House
Briefing on Paris Climate Talks
Joining President Wheeler for the White House call
are Ragan Squier, president's secretary; Alex
Poisson, sustainability coordinator and Ph.D.
candidate in environmental science; and Savannah
Betkowski, a senior in environmental studies.
In November, the White House Council on
Environmental Quality and the U.S. Department
of State identified the essential role that higher
education institutions can play in promoting the
United States' climate leadership in advance of
the United Nations Conference on Climate
Change in Paris (COP) that recently ended.
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