News from NJ's faculty board meeting June 9

Complement to the NJ strategy

During the spring, the Faculty Board's working committee discussed an alternative reading of the faculty's strategy for the period 2021–2025. This has resulted in a complement to the strategy being developed and the Faculty Board approving that it is now included in the original strategy.

The discussion concerned that when the focus areas of the strategy were sorted in a thematic way, and a different result then was obtained with new areas.

Recruitments

Professor of Molecular Cell Biology

The Faculty Board decided to announce a position as professor of molecular cell biology. At the same time as the new professor takes office, he/she will take over responsibility for the subject area of molecular cell biology from Claudia Köhler, who was recruited to the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

Visiting Professor of Molecular Cell Biology

The Faculty Board also decided to employ Claudia Köhler for 20 percent as a visiting professor in the subject of molecular cell biology for the period June 2021 to June 2024. The employment intend to keep Claudia as a resource at SLU.

Senior Lecturer in Business Administration

The Faculty Board decided to announce an employment as senior lecturer in business administration with a focus on financial management and integrated business planning at the Department of Economics.

Assistant senior lecturer in landscape architecture

The committee decided to place an assistant senior lecturer in landscape architecture with a focus on environmental assessment in the subject of political science at the Department of Urban and Rural Development.

Plant ecology becomes a new subject area

The Faculty Board decided to re-establish the subject area plant ecology as a separate subject area from 1 June 2021 with Martin Weih as responsible. For a number of years, plant ecology and weed biology have been a common joint subject areas. Now that a professor of weed biology (Göran Bergkvist) is in place, the two subjects will be divided into two separate subject areas at the Department of Crop Production Ecology.

Political science will be a new subject area

Political science will be a subject area at the Department of Urban and Rural Development from 1 July 2021. A professor of political science is being recruited. The subject area will include the activities at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre.

Department receives support to maintain the statistical activities at NJ

In 2010, what was later called the Center for Statistics was established, which has the task of providing statistical advice at SLU. The center is assigned annual grants decided by SLU's board.

The Faculty Board decided on a special financial support to the subject of statistics at the Department of Energy and Technology with SEK 500,000 annually during the period 2021 to 2024.

Review of scholarships at NJ

The NJ faculty administrates a number of scholarships where SLU's foundation administration is the trustee. The scholarships come from donations with specific purposes and rules, which over time have become increasingly difficult to follow as SLU and the educations have changed. The Faculty Board decided to propose to the Vice-Chancellor and the SLU Board to correct or revoke previous decisions regarding some of the funds handled by the NJ Faculty so that original intentions and regulations regarding fund dividends can be more easily followed.

A web for the faculty election

This autumn, elections will be held for the faculty boards at SLU's four faculties. There is now a web for each faculty for everything related to the election. There is also information about formalities and information that members of a new education committee will be appointed. The pages will be filled with information as decisions are made. So far, the pages are only in Swedish.

See the page here