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Innovations Related to Integration
Integration of Extension professionals into campus departments is one
of the hallmarks of the Oregon State innovations. Perhaps the most dramatic
feature of the integration is that Extension faculty serve on the Promotion
& Tenure committees of teaching and research faculty, and vice versa.
Extension faculty are also full participants in departmental faculty meetings.
The box below summarizes other features of the innovations relevant to
integration.
Features of the innovations intended to promote integration of
Extension professionals into campus departments:
- Extension faculty have found homes within academic departments.
They are eligible to participate in departmental committees and
faculty meetings.
- College deans and, by delegation, department heads have supervisory
responsibility for Extension programs and Extension faculty.
- Multi-department and multi-college Extension activities are
coordinated by the program leader.
- Position descriptions for Extension faculty are developed and
reviewed by the Extension faculty member in collaboration with
his or her supervisor (department head for campus-based Extension
faculty, staff chair for field faculty).
- Performance review processes, including promotion and tenure,
are handled through those departments. In numerous departments,
P&T committees for Extension faculty include non-Extension
faculty and vice versa.
Types of Integration
It is possible to distinguish three types of integration:
- Integration of Extension field faculty into "traditional"
academic departments
- Creation of new departments that provide homes for 4-H and F&CD
within a college
- Extension presence in departments and a college (Liberal Arts) where
there had been none.
The first of these three types is probably the most significant because
of the large numbers involved: in 1995, 205 Extension field faculty found
homes in academic departments.
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