A Greater Vision
Oct. 7, 2009
A Greater VisionCSUMB hosts forum on ag sustainability
Note: The forum will be held rain or shine.
The Greater Vision series of public forums on topics relevant to local agriculture continues Tuesday Oct.13, when industry professionals, educators and elected officials meet at California State University, Monterey Bay to discuss "Ag Sustainability: Our People . . . Transforming Lives."
Craig Watson, vice president of Sysco Food Services, will be the keynote speaker. Sysco is the global leader in supplying food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities. Watson's topic: "Social responsibility extends beyond the food chain."
Several speakers will address challenges facing the agricultural industry – poverty, job losses and economic trends.
"Coming together to transform lives," a panel discussion, will follow, focusing on potential solutions to these challenges. CSUMB President Dianne Harrison, Salinas Mayor Dennis Donahue, Seaside Mayor Ralph Rubio and businessman Don Chapin will get to the issue of how education, industry and government can cooperate and collaborate to transform lives in our local community.
The forum will get under way at 1 p.m. with opening remarks by Dr. Marylou Shockley, chair of CSUMB's School of Business. Mr. Watson's keynote address is scheduled to start at 3:30.
The event is free to the public, but donations will be accepted to the Grower Shipper Foundation. Driving directions and a campus map are available online at csumb.edu/map.
CSUMB's School of Business, the Central Coast Ag Task Force and the Grower-Shipper Foundation are sponsoring the forum.
This is the third and final forum addressing agricultural sustainability and stewardship making up the Triple Bottom Line - profit, planet, people. "Profit" was addressed at a forum last fall at CSUMB; "planet" was the focus last spring at Hartnell College.
A Greater Vision
The third in a series of forums on sustainability, the triple bottom line
"Sustainability: Our People . . . Transforming Lives"
Oct. 13, 2009
CSUMB's University Center on Sixth Avenue
12:30-1 p.m. - Check in
1-1:05 p.m. - Opening remarks by Dr. Marylou Shockley, chair of the School of Business
1:05-1:15 p.m. - Welcome remarks by Dr. Kathy Cruz Uribe, CSUMB provost
1:15-2:15 p.m. - Community Challenges panel discussion, moderated by April England-Mackie, second vice president, Ag Against Hunger
"Beyond the fields: An immigrant family's experience" by Linda McGlone, Monterey County Health Department
"Empowerment -a second chance" by Jill Allen, development director for Dorothy's Place
"From the streets to success: stories of hope" by Marc Rosen, Career Center, Regional Occupation Program
"Jobs plus education equals a healthy community," by Dr. Brad Barbeau, professor, CSUMB School of Business
2:15 p.m. - "Underwriting agriculture: a banker's perspective," by Jon Hillen, relationship manager, Rabobank, NA
2:30-3:30 p.m. - Coming Together to Transform Lives panel discussion, moderated by Felicia Perez Kausin, 1st Capital Bank and Hartnell College Foundation advisory board
"Education's role in transforming lives," by Dianne Harrison, CSUMB president
"Agriculture and community: our people, our vision for the future," by Dennis Donohue, mayor of Salinas
"Cooperation and collaboration for economic development vitality," by Ralph Rubio, mayor of Seaside
"Community Involvement: it's good business," by Don Chapin, The Chapin Company and Rancho Cielo
3:30-4:30 p.m. - Keynote speaker Craig Watson, vice president of Sysco Food Services, "Social responsibility extends beyond the food chain."
4:30-4:45 p.m. - Closing remarks
100 Campus Center
