The Department of Applied Ecology has launched a strategic plan effective through 2024.\u00a0 The new plan describes a clear mission, approach, and three detailed goals to achieve the long-term objectives of the department.<\/p>\n
“The department is still very young and the time was right to think about a shared vision for the future,” says Department Head Prof. Derek Aday<\/a>.\u00a0 “Everyone is doing very well individually, but creating a departmental strategic plan is about doing well collectively.”<\/p>\n The goals set out by the plan include:<\/p>\n Several of these goals have already been implemented or initiated, including the launch of the Friends of Applied Ecology<\/a> group.\u00a0 This group will connect engaged member of the public, scientists, industry partners, and alumni to further the department’s mission of sharing and applying science-based solutions to local, national, and global environmental challenges.<\/p>\n The full strategic plan can be read or downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mission Statement: The Department of Applied Ecology exists to advance and share fundamental discoveries in ecology and apply them to our greatest environmental challenges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"The Department of Applied Ecology has launched a strategic plan effective through 2024.\u00a0 The new plan describes a clear mission, approach, and three detailed goals to achieve the long-term objectives of the department.\r\n\r\n\"The department is still very young and the time was right to think about a shared vision for the future,\" says Department Head Prof. Derek Aday<\/a>.\u00a0 \"Everyone is doing very well individually, but creating a departmental strategic plan is about doing well collectively.\"\r\n\r\nThe goals set out by the plan include:\r\n The Department of Applied Ecology has launched a strategic plan effective through 2024.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":5998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[134,141],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-uncategorized","tag-applied-ecology","tag-strategic-plan"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/applied-ecology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Mission Statement: The Department of Applied Ecology exists to advance and share fundamental discoveries in ecology and apply them to our greatest environmental challenges.<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\n\r\n "},"excerpt":{"rendered":"