[Cuga] Update on Directors Search Committee- a message from Larry Weinstein

[Lorelei Chopard]

Dear JLab Users,

The Directors Search Committee is interested in receiving feedback from 
JLab users to help guide the search.  Please send any comments to me at 
weinstein at odu.edu or directly to the Search Committee chair (Don 
Geesaman geesaman at anl.gov).

As part of the search process, the committee met July 21 with many 
groups, including representatives of the User Group Board of Directors.  
Here is a precis of the topics we raised:

UGBoD members present: Haiyan Gao, John Arrington, Larry Weinstein, 
Charles Hyde, and Holly Vance
The primary messages conveyed to the search committee were:

 1. Science, and especially nuclear science, needs to be the top
    priority of the lab and not just of the Physics Division
 2. We need to enhance the profile of the lab in the larger Nuclear
    Physics and even the entire Physics community
 3. We need a sense of shared mission among the management, staff and users
 4. There is too much red tape and organizational issues slowing down
    needed work
 5. We need more transparency and user involvement in lab decisions. 
    This includes having more effective communication with the users.

There was also some discussion of the personnel firings in 2014 and 
their effect on the user community and on the staff.

Larry Weinstein
Chair, JLab User Group

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