Climate Change in Extension: Elevating and Amplifying Action, a virtual 3-day forum will take place
April 19-21, 2021, starting at noon ET each day. The event will bring together Extension faculty, staff, federal representatives, administrators, interested partners, and constituents to address the question:
What can/should the Cooperative Extension System do to advance climate change programming? USDA-NIFA’s Director Carrie Castille and Cooperative Extension System/ECOP Executive Director
Caroline Henney will be panelists on April 19. On April 20
Obahdiah Njue, University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff;
Rich Bonanno (ECOP), NC State University,
Karl Martin (North Central), University of Wisconsin,
Brian Schilling, Rutgers University, and
Ken White, Utah State University, empanel a leadership deep dive. Please share detailed
registration link widely to encourage participation. For more information on the Initiative go online to the
National Extension Climate Initiative.
NASS Launches Data Matters Blog - A new blog,
Data Matters: Inside the Census of Agriculture, by the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) started recently. Please share the insightful series which begins with
Preparing for the 2022 Census of Agriculture, with a behind-the-scenes look at the Content Test, an integral part of the scientific collection of agricultural data. The next in the series will examine the
Sign Up to Be Counted initiative for the 2022 Census of Agriculture with an explanation as to why the Census is important to producers of $1,000 or more of agricultural products in a given year. The monthly posts appear at the bottom of on the
Ag Census website and will be included in the
ECOP Monday Minute. Please be reminded that the
Cooperative Extension Section’s MOU (2018-2023) with NASS is found
here.
New Tool Establishes Baseline on Immunization Education Initiative - The Extension Foundation, the Cooperative Extension System's innovation collaboration partner, is debuting a new tool called the
National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs & Assets (NRCEPA) and its portal
Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching & Engagement (EXCITE). The platform tool evolved out of the need to collect resources for the Immunization Education initiative with CDC that was
announced last month. EXCITE is free on the
connect.extension.org Health and Well-Being Subgroup. Extension faculty and staff will contribute existing Immunization Education activity and search existing resources.
The goal of the tool is to establish a baseline of all existing work in immunization education on capacity funds across the Cooperative Extension System. Metrics will be collected around Activity 1 funded projects and Activity 2 funded pilots. A step-by-step 23-minute video walkthrough is found
here.
Assistant VP, FANR Communications and External Partnerships Position Announcement - APLU’s Board on Agriculture Assembly (BAA) -
the Cooperative Extension, Experiment Station, and Administrative Heads Sections - seeks a Assistant Vice President, Food Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Communications and External Partnerships. Interested individuals may send a cover letter and resume to APLU’s Human Resources Department at resume@aplu.org with the subject line: Assistant Vice President, FANR CEP. Applications will be reviewed as received and continue to be reviewed until the position is filled with
preference given to those received prior to April 1, 2021. For a full position description, please visit the
APLU Jobs Page.
