ACTION: Register for
NEDA 2014 –
Early registration deadline for NEDA, offered this year in conjunction with the
National eXtension Conference March 24-27 in Sacramento, runs through March 3.
See http://muconf.missouri.edu/NeXC-NEDA2014/
for details. This is the one opportunity each year for Cooperative Extension
Directors and Administrators to engage in a dialogue about national
opportunities affecting state and local programming. In addition to joint
sessions with eXtension featuring keynote speakers, the NEDA and Cooperative
Extension Business Meeting will consider such topics as improving health in
America, building Extension’s human capacity, the new 4-H National Leadership
Team, resource opportunities, and telling the impact story. The ECOP Executive
Committee which plans NEDA under the direction of immediate past ECOP Chair,
Daryl Buchholz, encourages representation from all institutions in the
Cooperative Extension Section. Join us in Sacramento for Launching
Cooperative Extension’s Next 100 Years: Celebrate, Innovate, Engage.
FCS
Master Volunteer Program – Learn about the Master
Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) Volunteer Program during a webinar 2:00-3:00
p.m. ET, Wednesday, 2.26.14 targeted for FCS program leaders and county
educators. See the newly developed website to help plan, implement and evaluate
a successful volunteer program, plus preview a 13-lesson series on volunteer
development. This program will help build FCS capacity, critical to Cooperative
Extension programming nationwide, by using trained volunteers at the local
level. The program was developed through a partnership of USDA-NIFA and
Montana State University Extension. Space is limited for the webinar.
Pre-registration is required at
“New” eXtension Planning
Underway – Dennis Calvin, Pennsylvania State University, Chair of the
eXtension Governing Committee, and Keith Smith, Ohio State University, Chair of
the eXtension Strategic Planning Committee, announce work to set out a plan for
the “new” eXtension. Thanks to all Cooperative Extension Directors and
Administrators for expressing your views over the last year. The next step is
to take action for change. Cascade Center for Community Governance has
been contracted to lead the effort. The first meeting, which includes
representation from all five Extension regions, is scheduled for March 4-5,
2014 in Washington, DC. An update will be provided at the 2014 NEDA meeting in
Sacramento in late March.
ACTION: Impacts Database – Forty-four of 75 Land-grant
institutions in the Cooperative Extension Section are represented in the
Impacts Database. If your institution is not represented, the ECOP Program
Subcommittee requests that you please consider doing so. The impacts are already
being used to support funding requests and for various presentations to key
influential groups. Go to https://excellence.tamu.edu/database
to enter impacts so that your institution and your region can be appropriately
recognized.
Celebrating 100 Years – Cooperative Extension was
well represented at the USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum February 20-21 in
Arlington, VA. The forum kicked off with video http://www.usda.gov/oce/forum/friday.htm#celebrating,
included
an ongoing centennial exhibit, and featured a concurrent session moderated by
Krysta Harden, USDA deputy secretary, called Launching Cooperative
Extension’s Next Century. ECOP Chair Jimmy Henning, University of Kentucky,
and ECOP Centennial Task Force co-chairs, Doug Steele, Texas A&M
University, and Frankie Gould, Louisiana State University, were speakers.
