{"id":316,"date":"2009-06-01T08:13:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2009-06-01T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T17:13:02","slug":"life-and-times-at-uas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Life and Times at UAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/stories\/060109\/loc_445892533.shtml\">latest UAS article in today&#8217;s Juneau paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think it does actually give a reasonable view of life and times at UAS. The university environment here is not just &#8220;lack of support for research&#8221;, which would be frustrating enough, but it is actually distracting from our efforts to grow an integrated, predominantly undergrad environment built on place-based interdisciplinary research programs. It is really too bad&#8211;there is so much potential here..<\/p>\n<p>There are a few details I&#8217;d quibble with&#8211;the no confidence against Chancellor Pugh is currently tabled in Senate (there hasn&#8217;t been a vote on the motion), the senate resolutions weren&#8217;t &#8220;asking for a larger role in governance of the university&#8221;&#8211;it asked to recognize and practice shared governance as laid out in the UAS faculty constitution (signed by the current Chancellor when it was adopted in ~2003).<\/p>\n<p>The contrast over the latest Dean search is &#8220;interesting&#8221; (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/processing.org\/reference\/false.html\">the search panel was unhappy with the candidates.<\/a>&#8221; vs &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/True\">all of the finalists withdrew<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>And unfortunately, the Chancellor says &#8220;we don&#8217;t have large research labs&#8221;&#8211;what a missed opportunity, because we do have great research labs!  Three of &#8217;em: the Juneau Icefield, The Tongass National Forest, and the Pacific Ocean\/Inside Passage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And here are a few photos of us at work in the lab yesterday&#8211;thanks Ayanna!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/gm588Q6-SHXw1lPxb3mxrA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_4lBSLRtr6ls\/SiQJB0fIC4I\/AAAAAAAABGw\/WSGoGPAwcfI\/s400\/Picture%205.png\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/matt.heavner\/MendenhallGlacierDivide?feat=embedwebsite\">Mendenhall Glacier Divide<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table style=\"width:auto;\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/tShpF6Vj7247ZS21KSbM2A?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_4lBSLRtr6ls\/SiQJBr9l9SI\/AAAAAAAABGs\/6RGWUY3QHkE\/s400\/Picture%206.png\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/matt.heavner\/MendenhallGlacierDivide?feat=embedwebsite\">Mendenhall Glacier Divide<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(and the whole (5 pictures so far!) album)..<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest UAS article in today&#8217;s Juneau paper. I think it does actually give a reasonable view of life and times at UAS. 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