FSML - Strategic plan for Cedar Point Biological Station

内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校获得了一笔赠款，用于为位于内布拉斯加州西部奥加拉拉的雪松点生物野外站制定战略计划。雪松点可以到达：短草草原、普拉特河谷、许多小溪、河流、湖泊和池塘，以及内布拉斯加州沙丘，作为内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校(UNL)生物科学学院(SBS)本科课程的一部分，雪松点一直是野外生物学课程的所在地。Cedar Point过去服务的受众正在迅速变化。这笔赠款将支持一个为期两年的全面战略规划进程，包括7个研讨会，这些研讨会将评估：1)如何吸引新的研究人员，2)开发新的本科课程和方法，3)探索发展外勤站联盟，以协调专业课程的提供，并与一项允许参与外勤站的学生支付本州学费的学费协议挂钩，4)探索他们对当地正规和非正式教育的需求，并确定雪松点如何满足这些需求，5)探索雪松点及其教职员工可以向其他机构提供的研究和培训机会，如内布拉斯加州游戏和公园部门、自然保护协会、奥杜邦协会、美国林务局、电力和灌溉区，管理内布拉斯加州的各种自然区域，6)制定设施管理计划，以提高能源效率和降低持续维护成本，7)建立以雪松点校友为基础的雪松点之友小组。这些讲习班将使联合国后勤基地能够重新评估Cedar Point的使命，确定挑战和机遇，并制定一项全面的教学、研究、外联和基础设施战略计划，以指导Cedar Point今后的工作。欲了解更多有关空间站的信息，请访问他们的网站：http://cedarpoint.unl.edu/.

The University of Nebraska, Lincoln is awarded a grant to develop a strategic plan for the Cedar Point Biological Field Station, located in Ogallala in Western Nebraska. Cedar Point offers access to: short grass prairie, the Platte River valley, many streams, rivers, lakes and ponds, and the Nebraska Sandhills and has been the site of field based biology courses as part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), School of Biological Sciences (SBS) undergraduate curriculum. The audience that Cedar Point has served in the past is rapidly changing. This grant will support a comprehensive, two year strategic planning process with 7 workshops that will evaluate: 1) ways to attract new research faculty, 2) develop new undergraduate curricula and approaches, 3) explore the development of consortium of field stations that would coordinate the offerings of specialized courses, linked with a tuition agreement which would allow students at participating field stations to pay in-state tuition, 4) explore their need for local formal and informal education and determine how Cedar Point can fill these needs, 5) explore research and training opportunities that Cedar Point, its faculty and students can offer to other agencies, such as the Nebraska Department of Game and Parks, the Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society, US Forest Service, Power and Irrigation Districts, that manage various natural areas in Nebraska, 6) develop a facilities management plan to improve energy efficient and lower ongoing maintenance costs, 7) develop a Friends of Cedar Point group based on Cedar Point alumni. These workshops will enable UNL to reevaluate Cedar Point's mission, identify challenges and opportunities, and develop a comprehensive teaching, research, outreach and infrastructure strategic plan that can guide Cedar Point in the future. For more information about the station visit their website at http://cedarpoint.unl.edu/.