Faculty of Forestry Transition Information
Letter from The Faculty Transition Team:
As some of you may have already heard, the Faculty has been put again in the throes of re-envisioning its future! In response to the Faculty’s External review of the Faculty in this past fall 2009, the Provost has asked Shashi Kant, Mohini Sain, and Sandy Smith to form a working group within the Faculty to discuss its future. The Faculty needs to: 1) get off the University's new budget radar, and 2) more importantly, to best plan its future in terms of what can/needs to be achieved in terms of forest education. We have some very important decisions to make over the next few months that will have implications in the coming years, but there also seems to be a lot of momentum and openness this time in how we do this, especially in terms of the format we can take (e.g. moving in part, or as a whole, into either Arts & Science, UTSc or some other configuration). It seems to be up to us this time to optimally define our future, and this can be both exciting and challenging.
In keeping with this spirit and our intent to make sure all are included in the process, we welcome any comments, thoughts, concerns, strategies, etc. that you as alumni and Faculty friends may have along these lines. The Faculty Working Group or ‘Transition Committee’ invites you to send your thoughts, insights, or any other inspirations to us on how best to proceed in this time of economic challenge and change (again). It is a time to reflect on past accomplishments but more importantly, to plan for our future. How can the Faculty best educate tomorrow’s leaders in forest conservation? The Committee plans to have the final report to the Provost by 1 July 2010, but we need all your ideas to really achieve a workable solution in this timeframe. So we welcome your input, encourage you to participate, and most importantly, ask you to start discussing your perspective with all members of our Faculty.
Sandy Smith (s.smith.a@utoronto.ca)
Shash Kant (shashi.kant@utoronto.ca)
Mohini Sain (m.sain@utoronto.ca)
Related Documentation
- Forestry External Review Report (pdf format)
- Forestry Administrative Response to External Review (pdf format)