[Vision2020] UI Friday Letter (Special Edition) for June 13, 2008

[Tom Hansen]

Copied and pasted below is the UI Friday Letter (Special Edition) for June 
13, 2008.

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University of Idaho
Office of the President
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3151
Phone: 208-885-6365
Fax: 208-885-6558

The Friday Letter
** SPECIAL EDITION ** 
A Newsletter for University of Idaho Alumni and Friends
June 13, 2008

Dear Friends,

This Special Edition is brought to you by the University of Idaho Office 
of Communications.  Please watch for the regular Friday Letter from 
President White – the last of his presidency - on June 20. 

This week the Idaho State Board of Education selected Steven Daley-
Laursen, dean of the College of Natural Resources, to serve an interim 
appointment as president of the University of Idaho beginning July 1, 
2008. Below are links to the State Board of Education's news release that 
features comments by Board President Milford Terrell and President White; 
a brief biography of Dean Daley-Laursen; and links to news stories about 
the appointment. 

News release: 
www.today.uidaho.edu/details.aspx?id=4404

Biography: 
www.cnrhome.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=51315

Steven B. Daley-Laursen '79, '84, dean of the University of Idaho College 
of Natural Resources and professor in the Department of Forest Resources, 
has 28 years of experience working in land-grant universities. He began 
his career as a research associate at the University of Idaho in 1979. He 
joined Montana State University and the University of Montana in 1984 as 
an assistant professor and natural resources extension specialist. From 
1988 to 2002, he worked at the University of Minnesota in several 
capacities, including extension professor, director and co-founder of the 
Interdisciplinary Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership, 
director of the statewide Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships 
Program, director of the Sea Grant College, program leader for Natural 
Resources and Environmental Programs with the University of Minnesota 
Extension Service, special assistant to the president, and associate dean 
in the College of Natural Resources.

His areas of academic and administrative concentration are leadership 
theory in natural resource management and environmental education; 
technology transfer processes between scientists and management agencies; 
and organizational and institutional design for sustainable development 
and sustainability. He has worked throughout the United States and in 11 
other countries.

In 2002, Daley-Laursen became dean and professor for the College of 
Natural Resources at the University of Idaho. He oversees a college with 
more than 800 graduate and undergraduate students, 140 faculty and staff, 
and leading research, education and outreach initiatives with impact in 
Idaho, the West and the world. The college just established the nation's 
first undergraduate wildland fire ecology and management program.

Faculty, staff and students are actively involved in the university's 
sustainability efforts and in three significant new university-wide, 
interdisciplinary initiatives. The college houses the Laboratory for 
Conservation and Ecological Genetics, the Reveley Geo-Spatial Technologies 
Complex, the Taylor Ranch Field Research Station in the Frank Church 
Wilderness and the McCall Outdoor Science School at the University's 
McCall Field campus.

Daley-Laursen received the Secretary's National Honor Award from the U.S. 
Department of Agriculture for his work on an environmental science 
education program on the White Earth Indian Reservation. He was an 
inaugural fellow in the Mondale Emerging Leaders Public Policy Program at 
the University of Minnesota, and an inaugural fellow in the Kellogg 
Foundation National Leadership Program at the University of Wisconsin. He 
currently is the national public policy chair for the National Association 
of University Forest Resources Programs and has held several leadership 
positions at the national, state and local levels in the Society of 
American Foresters and the National Association of State Universities and 
Land-Grant Colleges. 

Daley-Laursen studied international relations at the College of William 
and Mary, and earned a bachelor's in conservation and resource development 
from the University of Maryland. He earned a master's in forest resources 
management and a doctorate in forest science from the University of Idaho 
in 1979 and 1984, respectively.

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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