Colleagues,
In 2011, UC ANR created the Taxonomy and Personnel System (TPS) to inventory and report the collective expertise within the Division. You may wonder, “Who else works in urban agriculture, or in livestock and dairy, or in community development, or with watersheds, or with beneficial insects, etc.?” With the Taxonomy system, you can click on any such category, and many more, to get a list of names and/or display them on a GIS map!
We’re asking all UC ANR academics to review and update their areas of expertise in TPS now. Timing is important. You and Program Council can use TPS to gather information on ANR’s programmatic footprint to inform the development of positions in response to the 2014 Call for Cooperative Extension (CE) Positions, to be released mid-January. The CE position proposal template and criteria include how proposed positions strengthen the ANR network; thus, identifying the existing network is crucial. The TPS home page includes information about how generate such programmatic footprint reports.
Please go through the list of commodities (includes natural resources), knowledge areas, programs and strategic initiatives, and connect yourself to any topic that is appropriate. For advisors and specialists, TPS was recently updated with data imported from DANRIS-X and a few other locations; your review will improve accuracy.
TPS can help you build collaborations by identifying ANR colleagues working in your subject areas and other areas with which you are interested in collaborating. You can identify people across the Division’s network of CE advisors and specialists and Agriculture Experiment Station (AES) faculty.
You can access the Taxonomy and Personnel System through your ANR Portal at https://ucanr.edu/portal under My Links. You can also directly access your programmatic Categories through the ANR Directory if you are logged into your portal and use the following specific link http://ucanr.edu/mytax.
Thank you,
Bill Frost