{"id":10052,"date":"2023-10-30T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T22:50:22","slug":"dean-search-advisory-committee-and-invitation-to-provide-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-10052","title":{"rendered":"Dean Search: Advisory Committee, and Invitation to provide input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President\u2019s Advisory Committee for the selection of a new Dean for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems has the following membership, consisting of both elected and appointed members, per <a href=\"https:\/\/universitycounsel.ubc.ca\/policies\/deans-appointment-policy\/\">UBC Policy AP5<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joseph Al Rahmani, Undergraduate Student<\/li>\n<li>Simone Castellarin, Professor, CRC in Viticulture and Plant Genomics, and Associate Director, Wine Research Centre<\/li>\n<li>Tamara Cohen, Assistant Professor, FNH and Director of Dietetics<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea Gowton, Graduate Student<\/li>\n<li>Eduardo Jovel, Associate Professor, and Director, Indigenous Research Partnerships<\/li>\n<li>Robert Kozak, Dean, Faculty of Forestry<\/li>\n<li>Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, Senior Manager, EDI and Indigeneity<\/li>\n<li>Gurcharn Singh Brar, Assistant Professor, Plant Science<\/li>\n<li>Will Valley, Associate Professor of Teaching, and Associate Dean, Equity, Decolonization and Inclusion<\/li>\n<li>Siyun Wang, Associate Professor, Food Safety Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Gage Averill, Provost and VP Academic, UBC Vancouver (Chair)<\/li>\n<li>Kate Carr, Executive Assistant to the Provost and AVP Faculty Planning (Secretary)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Committee\u2019s task is to consider and advise the President on the candidates before the President makes a recommendation to the Board of Governors. Odgers Berndtson executive search firm will be supporting the President\u2019s Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The search consultants are seeking your input on the following questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the opportunities and challenges facing the Faculty over the next few years?<\/li>\n<li>What qualifications should be sought in candidates for Dean (in terms of leadership style, academic credentials, background, and experience)?<\/li>\n<li>Are there individuals you would like to recommend?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please submit your input, <strong><u>by end of day November 17<sup>th<\/sup><\/u><\/strong> , via this confidential <a href=\"https:\/\/survey.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_bla35BzNDRsfN6S\">online survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To keep updated on the Dean Search, you can view updates from Gage Averill, Provost and VP, Academic, by visiting the homepage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">LFS Intranet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen\u00a0Lee<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/equity.ubc.ca\/resources\/gender-diversity\/pronouns\/\">She, Her, Hers<\/a>)<br \/>\nDirector of Marketing and Communications<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\n2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nPhone 604 827 5297 | Cell 604 312 6343<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:karen.lee98@ubc.ca\">karen.lee98@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@ubcLFS\">@ubcLFS<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President\u2019s Advisory Committee for the selection of a new Dean for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems has the following membership, consisting of both elected and appointed members, per UBC Policy AP5: Joseph Al Rahmani, Undergraduate Student Simone Castellarin, Professor, CRC in Viticulture and Plant Genomics, and Associate Director, Wine Research Centre Tamara&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}