Environmental Task Force to meet with students, faculty and staff

The task force—co-chaired by Douglas Kelbaugh, dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, and Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment—is working to identify indicators that best measure the progress of the University in key areas of environmental assessment.

"We encourage students, faculty and staff to attend this meeting and to share their thoughts on the task force's initial studies of key environmental stewardship indicators for the University," Bierbaum says.

Bierbaum and Kelbaugh also are co-chairs of an advisory group that will provide the task force with research and other technical support.

In her charge to the task force at its inception in October 2003, President Mary Sue Coleman asked members to develop recommendations for advancing and tracking Michigan's stewardship efforts. The group will recommend a set of environmental indicators for University focus, and will investigate how these might be measured and reported regularly.

For further information about the task force or its upcoming meeting, contact Patrick Naswell, assistant to the counsels in the Office of the President, at (734) 764-6270 or patrickn@umich.edu.

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