School of Neuroscience
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 2:04pm — memcinto
Name of proposed new unit, OR Title of submission:
School of Neuroscience
136 School of Neuroscience.pdf
Name of contact person for this proposal: Julie M Barkmeier-Kraemer
Contact person title: Associate Professor, Dept of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences
Contact Address:
1131 E 2nd St
Tucson, AZ 85721
Contact Phone: 520-621-5699
Responses from President and Provost
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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:
A Proposal with quality elements- this proposal should move forward and be further developed addressing the Hispanic Advisory Council criteria
The Executive Committee of
The Executive Committee of the Committee on Neuroscience and the GIDP on Neuroscience is enthusiastic about two proposals currently being considered: the School of Mind, Brain, and Behavior, and the School of Neurosciences. Although the names may differ, both proposals are similar in their goal of bringing together units that clearly share research and curricular interests -- Psychology, Speech and Hearing Sciences, several divisions of the ARL including Neurobiology, NSMA and the McKnight Brain Institute, and the GIDP's of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. We encourage the fusion of these two proposals, bringing the strengths of each one into a larger, more comprehensive proposal with input from all the units. We support the association of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science as units that would be administered through the school, while maintaining their interdisciplinary status as an essential feature so that they can effectively serve faculty across colleges. This unique endeavor has the potential to significantly increase UA's visibility as a world-class research institute. We also strongly support the idea of developing an undergraduate program in Neuroscience. Such programs are now widely offered at top research universities and have proven to be very successful.
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