Department of Neurobiology
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 1:27pm — memcinto
Name of proposed new unit, OR Title of submission:
Department of Neurobiology
117 Department of Neurobiology.pdf
Name of contact person for this proposal: John G. Hildebrand, Ph.D.
Contact person title: Regents Professor of Neurobiology & Director, ARL Neurobiology
Contact Address:
PO Box 210077, 603 Gould-Simpson Bldg., Tucson AZ 85721-0077
Contact Phone: 520-621-6626
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Comments
The African American
The African American Advisory Council would want to insure that Transformations processes including consolidations and workforce reductions would not erode The University of Arizona's efforts to recruit and retain diverse faculty, students, and staff.
The UA President’s Hispanic
The UA President’s Hispanic Advisory Council (HAC) is pleased to provide its evaluation of this White Paper/Proposal, with the specific goal of relating it to the joint UA/HAC goals concerning diversity and inclusion, recruitment, retention and graduation of Hispanic students and faculty, and on meeting the UA goal of becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution by 2012. Additional criteria used when reviewing this proposal include the following: UA’s land grant institution status and thus its location in the southwest and the changing demographics of this area; innovative program design, including instruction methodologies; and whether the proposal realistically addresses the UA’s business needs. HAC’s mission it to strengthen relationships between the UA and the diverse communities within the State of Arizona by serving as a communications conduit and developing mutually beneficial partnerships.
HAC has reviewed this proposal and rates this as:
This proposal has Quality elements, including outreach/service to the community and potential connection to the School of Mind, Brain and Behavior white paper which HAC has rated a Quality proposal. This Dept. of Neurology White Paper should move forward and be further developed addressing the Hispanic Advisory Council criteria
If the main motivation of
If the main motivation of this exercise is to economize, a logical step for the university is to review these proposals and to find ways of combining them further. In this respect, I support the proposal for consolidating the current Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy (College of Medicine) and Molecular and Cellular Biology (College of Science) into a single cross-college Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. This would achieve an important goal of the reorganization, namely bringing together faculty with common interests, who together could create a stronger nationally-ranked unit that strengthens both the COM and COS. I favor the idea of extending this model even further, to consider incorporating the proposal for a Department of Neurobiology. The proposed mission of a new Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the rationale for consolidating CBA and MCB is directly complementary to the proposal for this new Department of Neurobiology in the COS. All three units have a stated goal of using animal models to study basic biological processes, and it seems that combining them into a single Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in the COS would strengthen even further the education and research components of the new department's mission, and it would lead to additional savings and efficiency through resource consolidation from three rather than only two existing units.
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