Role of the CGIAR in Coconut Research

Paper by an ad hoc TAC panel working from Gabrielle Persley's studies of the needs for internationally supported research on the coconut, in the context of previous TAC decisions on the priority of oilseeds in general. The paper reviews existing research programs, and discusses suitable priority areas within coconut research. The panel considered six number of institutional alternatives, including support to national institutions, and to ICRAF, IRRI and IBPGR. It recommended the establishment of a new International Coconut Research Council.Agenda document, TAC 52

Proposed CGIAR Initiative on Aquaculture: Resolving Outstanding Issues

Discussion paper by an ad hoc subcommittee established to review issues raised at TAC 45 about a proposal for a CGIAR initiative on aquaculture, and to provide additional background information. The purpose of the paper was to establish the basis for a TAC decision.Agenda document, TAC 46

International and Regional Organizations and Networks Involved in Tropical Forestry Research: A Stock Taking

Report prepared by an ad hoc panel on tropical forestry to provide TAC with a survey of the forestry-related work of IARCs, other international research centers, and regional networks of national programs. The panel was particularly concerned with how this work related to the five priority areas identified at the Bellagio II Forestry Meeting held at Wiston House in London in November 1988. The report was intended to inform TAC in its consideration of how the CGIAR should go about incorporating forestry into its mandate.Agenda document, TAC 49

The IUFRO Special Program for Developing Countries (SPDC): A Stock Taking

Report prepared by an ad hoc panel on tropical forestry on the mandate, governance, management, and methods of operations of the IUFRO Special Program for Developing Countries. The report describes the existing, relatively small, program and assesses its impact, as well as its planned evolution from an IUFRO subprogram toward an independent tropical forestry research center. It follows in general the outline of the other reports on non associated programs being considered for CGIAR support. It was prepared in connection with the TAC's consideration of whether to recommend expanding the CGIAR mandate to include forestry

Priority Forestry Research Areas with Potential for International Centralization

Paper by Hans Gregersen and John Spears prepared as part of TAC's consideration of the approach to including forestry in the CGIAR mandate. It was marked Interim Draft, but was approved for circulation without change by the steering group of the ad hoc TAC Forestry Panel.The paper discussed eight topics in forestry that might benefit from centralized international research. These were biotechnology, vegetative propagation, soil microbiology, germplasm conservation, policy research, utilization research, plant protection, and finally remote sensing and information systems. It also briefly considered the institutional implications emerging from its discussion.Agenda document at TAC 50

From widening horizons to widening participation : transmitting the experience of global citizenship to the school classroom

This paper gives account of a project involving Year Abroad students of French at Warwick University challenged to select realia from their host countries in order to stimulate enthusiasm for language learning in local schools. It considers the cognitive and affective processes informing the ‘culture gathering’ that took place: how did the responsibility to act as the interface between a foreign culture and their own inform these students’ own intercultural and linguistic journeys? Assessing outcomes, the paper goes on to describe the implementation of a more ambitious second stage project involving the Routes into Languages Adopt a Class scheme, Warwick PGCE MFL students and staff, and students on the British Council assistantship and Erasmus programmes

AS-556-01 Resolution on Strategic Plan for Service Learning and Policies and Procedures

Adopts the Strategic Plan for Service Learning and Policies and Procedures

Improving Student Life in the University of Maine 1980

A report submitted by the Trustee ad hoc Committee on Student Life prepared for the University of Maine Board of Trustees in 1980. Sections include: Foreword; Introduction; The Student; Student-Faculty Relationship; The Student and Student Services; The Student and the State of Maine; Bibliography; Members of the Committee; Board of Trustees, Administration

AS-946-22 Resolution to Establish Processes for Curriculum and Academic Program Proposal Review for Conversion to Semesters

Approves “Procedures for Curricular and 26 Program Proposal Review, 2022-26 (attached to the resolution)

Report: The Ad Hoc Committee for the new Duval Medical Center, undated

This report discusses plans for the new hospital structure and their functions as an educational hospital as well as one that takes care of lower income people