Small Group Discussion - Group 3
Recorder: Fitz-Roy Curry

1. The I-80 corridor -- Campus strengths that link to economic engines in the middle of growth area/close to Sacramento.

2. The strength of the campus - both broad (collegial/collaboration and variety of programs with School of Veterinary Medicine/School of Medicine/Division of Biological Sciences/College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) and great specific strengths in Environmental Sciences, Animal Models of Avian Disease, Engineering, etc.

3. Student friendly campus -- Culture of UC Davis which includes high quality undergraduate education, concern and commitment to health life styles, and environment. We need to translate the culture to a clear identity.

4. Internship Program -- Develops work force, good citizens, and emissaries that link the campus and the community.

5. Cooperative Extension-- Model for delivery that can be extended beyond the Agriculture area into Health Services, social problems and policies. The extension specialist services as an intermediary between the recorder and the end customer.
   Weaknesses and Threats
   1. Locally/Nationally we are not well recognized. Need to target 3-5,000 key people in our region who are the decision makers. Also target our alumni. The School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Management have successfully competed in markets. Rest of the campus has not. We are becoming better.

   2. As a campus we are over constrained and over regulated by UC Office of the President. This is true in our relations to our constituency in technology transfer and in relations to the legislature. We have a culture that differs from southern California campuses and the bay area campuses. This needs to be recognized.

   3. Strengths in social problems and policy analysis and not well used by state Government.

   4. Inability to deal with mass transportation. Undermines our strengths in Environmental Sciences, Water Resources, and Land Management.

   5. Cooperative Extension -- Increased distance between faculty researchers and end customer.