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。雪松点提供访问：短草草原，普拉特河谷，许多溪流，河流，湖泊和池塘，以及内布拉斯加州沙丘，并已作为内布拉斯加州林肯大学（UNL）生物科学学院（SBS）本科课程的一部分，实地生物学课程的网站。过去Cedar Point服务的受众正在迅速变化。这笔赠款将支持一个全面的、为期两年的战略规划过程，其中包括7个讲习班，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)探索开发实地研究站联盟，以协调专业课程的提供，并与学费协议相联系，允许参与实地研究站的学生支付州内学费，4)探索他们对当地正规和非正规教育的需求，并确定雪松点如何满足这些需求。5)探索杉点大学及其师生为管理内布拉斯加州各种自然区域的其他机构提供的研究和培训机会，如内布拉斯加州狩猎和公园部、大自然保护协会、奥杜邦协会、美国林务局、电力和灌溉区；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)以杉点大学校友为基础建立杉点大学之友组织。这些研讨会将使UNL能够重新评估雪松点的使命，确定挑战和机遇，并制定全面的教学，研究，推广和基础设施战略计划，以指导雪松点的未来。有关该站的更多信息，请访问其网站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/.