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Extent of IntegrationAs would be expected, Extension faculty are not evenly deployed into all colleges and departments of the university. The highest concentrations of Extension faculty are found in three colleges – Agriculture, Home Economics & Human Development, and Forestry – and especially in 12 departments within those colleges:
Those 12 departments account for 94% of Extension field faculty and 67% of campus-based Extension faculty. Extension campus faculty are more widely dispersed than Extension field faculty; they have homes in 29 different academic units, compared to 17 for the Extension field faculty. Data table There are three or fewer Extension faculty numbers within the colleges of Engineering, Health & Human Performance, Business, Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine. Data table The College of Liberal Arts is an important transitional case. As of fall 2001, it is home to 10 Extension faculty members, some of whom are faculty of the college "at large" and report to an associate dean who is consistently outspoken in his support of an Extension presence in CLA departments. The department of anthropology is the academic home for two field-based Extension faculty members; political science and sociology each has one campus-based Extension faculty member. Data table The presence of Extension people in new departments, and the supportive voices of those who are favorably disposed toward their presence, may prepare the way for a yet-wider distribution of Extension personnel and, as a result, the prospect of tapping a wider array of University expertise as a platform for Extension programming on new topics. The positive experience of Extension involvement in the College of Liberal Arts bodes well for evolution toward an Extension presence in yet other colleges and departments. |