Faculty Meeting Highlights

Faculty Meeting updates are provided by Jasmine Cutter, the SNRS graduate student representative to faculty meetings. In her role as representative, Jasmine is tasked with attending faculty meetings, providing some brief overviews of what is happening, and soliciting feedback on issues relevant to graduate students. Jasmine is an MS student majoring in Range Science.


April 20, 2018

  • We met librarian Susanne Caro. She’s in charge of government docs. She can be reached at Susanne.Caro@ndsu.edu or 701-231-8863 if you have any research Qs related to govt publications, or if you’re looking for govt resources that seem to have disappeared
  • Agricultural Science librarian Nicole Juve updated us on some of her projects: scanning old dissertations so we have a digital copy, SCOPUS is now available through NDSU libraries, there is now a large-format scanner in the library which can be used if you have suggestions for other documents that should be added to institutional repository. The Rangeland Partnership meeting will be hosted at NDSU in 2019, this organization works to build open access databases/repositories and websites for researchers, landowners, agency folks, etc. to use.
  • The library started an Undergraduate Research Award with a $250 prize for a student who demonstrates good use of library resources, various media will be considered – posters, essays, websites, videos – so if you work with any undergraduates who might be interested, pass on this info!

March 10, 2018

  • Promotion/tenure policies/written documents are being updated to get SNRS in-line withthe rest of the College/University
  • We reviewed classes that are being taught in the fall so profs have a better idea of what they can recommend to their advisees (undergrad and grad). There seem to be a few that involve a field component, so a few chances to actually get outside during the fall!
  •  Despite having minimal official teaching hours allocated (the equivalent of 5 FTEs),SNRS produces a lot of classes (6.5+ FTEs).
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