Debut of the National Cooperative Extension Leadership Calendar – Introducing a convenient, interactive calendar designed to track dates and details of events of national and regional significance as announced in the ECOP Monday Minute. Bookmark your browser for: http://nationalcooperativeextension.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html. On the calendar you will find the following items.
National Extension Master Gardener Coordinator Conference – October 27-29, 2014, New Brunswick, NJ, https://sites.google.com/site/2014nemgcc/, conference registration deadline is October 13, hotel room rates guaranteed through October 6. Direct questions to 2014NEMGCC@gmail.com.
APLU Annual Meeting – November 2-4, 2014, Orlando, FL, http://www.aplu.org/page.aspx?pid=1462, Cooperative Extension awards presented Sunday morning; Cooperative Extension dinner Monday evening.
Joint Council for Agricultural Research, Education, and Teaching/Academic Heads Section (CARET/AHS) Meeting – March 2-5, 2015, Washington, DC.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Conference – March 16-19, 2015, Crystal City, (Arlington) VA, contact Stephanie Blake, USDA-NIFA, sblake@nifa.usda.gov.
Public Issues Leadership Development (PILD) Conference – April 12-15, 2015, Crystal City, (Arlington) VA, http://www.jcep.org/pild-conference. A letter of invitation with highlights to Cooperative Extension leaders is available at: https://www.aplu.org/document.doc?id=5484. Registration begins January 12, 2015.
National Urban Extension Conference – May 4-7, 2015, Atlanta, GA, http://urbanextension2015.com; proposal deadline October 1, 2014.
National Extension Conference on Volunteerism – May 4-7, 2015, Portland, ME, contact Doug Swanson, 202.690.1227, dswanson@nifa.usda.gov.
National Health Outreach Conference – May 6-8, 2015, Atlanta, GA, contact Janet Valente, University of Georgia, 706.583.0343, jvalente@uga.edu.
1890 Institutions 125th Celebration – July 15-16, 2015, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
National Extension Directors and Administrators (NEDA) and Cooperative Extension Section Meeting – October 12-15, 2015, location to be determined.
APLU Annual Meeting – November 15-17, 2015, Indianapolis, IN. Future conferences November 13-15, 2016 in Austin, TX, and November 12-14, 2017 in Washington, DC.
