<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Dear Colleagues,</span><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio are pleased to announce a 7-week "Strategic Planning for Herbaria” online course. </span><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators. </span><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"></b><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The “Strategic Planning for Herbaria” course will occur on Fridays from 2:00–3:00 Eastern Daylight Time from April 3–May 15, 2020. We anticipate that the course will require 3–5 hours of work per week, including the 1 hour in-class. The goal is to produce a short (5–10 pages) strategic plan for each represented herbarium. Each plan will address vision, mission, </span><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">stakeholders, </span><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">strategies, goals, objectives, evaluation, and sustainability, among other things. The process is at least as valuable as the product, and you might find that the exercises benefit your herbarium in unexpected ways. </span><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;" class="">This is our fourth year offering this course.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The course will be capped at 15 participants to ensure adequate opportunities to participate in discussions. We are looking for creative, committed participants who can help us to continue building momentum for this as an annual event. If multiple individuals from an herbarium are interested in participating in the course, we ask that one formally apply and the others participate in the out-of-class exercises and brainstorming sessions. </span><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">To apply, please fill out this short Google Form (<a href="https://forms.gle/VwBabtb3fPc1UUfNA" class="">https://forms.gle/VwBabtb3fPc1UUfNA</a>)</span><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class=""> </span><b class="">by February 28.</b> Admission decisions will be made shortly thereafter.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">With best regards,</span><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Austin Mast (Past-President, Society of Herbarium Curators) and David Jennings (Project Manager, iDigBio)</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><span class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 · <a href="mailto:amast@bio.fsu.edu" class="">amast@bio.fsu.edu</a> · he/him</div>
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