UC Davis Extension’s Collaboration Center recently completed an engagement with the Chilean Council for Clean Production, a division of the Chilean Ministry of the Economy, to help improve environmental decision making.

The Collaboration Center worked with the government, community leaders and private industry to establish a process for connecting companies and local communities at the outset of major investment projects in areas such as renewable energy, infrastructure development and integrated watershed management.

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Survey reminders: Staff engagement, myucdavis

The staff engagement survey is for nonrepresented employees, while the myucdavis survey is for all staff and faculty.

• Staff engagement — This survey, a follow-up to a 2012 survey, is going to a random sample of nonrepresented employees around the UC system. If you’re chosen to participate, look for an email invited from Towers Watson, a national company specializing in work force opinion research.

The Council of University of California Staff Assemblies, or CUCSA, developed the survey in collaboration with Employee Relations at the UC Office of the President, and with Towers Watson.

The engagement survey aims to help UC better understand the views, experiences and needs of nonrepresented staff on topics related to working for UC, including career development, performance management and work place collaboration.

The survey is completely confidential; individual responses and personal identifying information will not

Read more in this article from last week's Dateline UC Davis.

• myucdavis — The survey applies to myucdavis’ faculty-staff version. Follow these steps to take the survey:

• Go to my.ucdavis.edu and log in.
• On the AggieView page, find the survey above the mySpotlight tile in the upper-right corner.
• Once you’re done answering the questions, the survey will go away.

The results will help the myucdavis development team set priorities for new tiles and functions to add this year.

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Registration underway for IT Security Symposium

UC Davis is hosting UC’s systemwide IT Security Symposium, Tuesday-Wednesday, June 16-17. The symposium, held every other year, is a good place to discuss UC computer and network security issues and strategies; exchange ideas to improve information privacy and security; and network with peers.

Organizers expect the 2015 event will draw about 300 people, mostly technical professionals and administrative.

The program includes approximately 75 workshops, hands-on labs and presentations, including a session that will dissect well-known security breaches, and discuss what they mean for UC systems; and another session that will review the current cyber-threat landscape relevant to UC Davis and the Sacramento area.

The symposium website includes the agenda and registration link. Questions or comments can be directed by email to the symposium planning team.

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