The Journal of Extension (JOE) is a refereed journal that expands and updates the research and knowledge base for Extension professionals and outreach educators.
A great program to share with your county & community natural resource partners and organizations. Natural Resource Leadership Academy registration is now open.
Professional development can help you have suitable competencies for the tasks that lay ahead, maintain a healthy attitude for staying focused, and be well equipped with new skills.
Cispus Workshop participants engage in interactive, hands-on learning and walk away with strategies and techniques they can employ the first day back at the office.
With leadership from the Extension Program Council, a process was developed to identify and prioritize issues around which we might seek funding to allow Extension’s growth.
Congratulations to the Clackamas County Extension 4-H team for their outstanding work and being awarded the Judge’s Choice at Portland's Festival of Trees!
Join with others to renew your energy, share practices, and spark innovative ideas for strengthening the economic vitality and social vibrancy of rural communities.
Imagine what a truly 21st Century public university will become. At some universities we've been practicing outreach for as long as 100 years, but what about true engagement?
The OSUEA Awards Committee is soliciting nominations for awards which were not given at Spring Training 2012, and a second round of Hoecker Grants. Nominations due by October 5th.
It’s time celebrate achievements and look toward “Advancing the Engagement Mission” at the 2012 Outreach and Engagement Conference, October 29-31, CH2M Hill Alumni Center, Corvallis.
Washington State University is offering a series of webinars intended to provide broad based topics that many Extension educators may need to be successful.
The Ford Institute wants to be sure you are aware of these various opportunities that relate to nonprofit organizations and the rural communtiies we serve.
Extension Administration has said goodbye to friends in UABC with their move to Finley Hall in August, and again as CN staff relocated with their CN group in Valley Library earlier this month.
It has become a summer tradition that I report on the interesting organizational facts I discover while cruising SOARS, Extension’s electronic Stories, Outcomes and Accomplishments Reporting System.
Congratulations to the following OSU Extension Faculty for their promotion to Professor, Associate Professor, or Senior Instructor, effective July 1, 2012.
A three-part series of webinars is being offered through WSU Extension. These webinars are intended to provide broad based topics that many Extension educators may need to be successful.
The Division of Outreach and Engagement and Extension Administration office is pleased to welcome Andrea Zigler as our new Administrative Program Assistant.
I’ve been asked several times recently to make observations about people who have accomplished much in their lives or careers and who are moving on to other challenges.
OSU Extension Association Cooperator and 4-H Leader of the Year Awards presented at the OSUEA Recognition Banquet on May 2nd at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center in Corvallis.
We would like to remind our county Extension faculty and staff of the Remote Staff Discount benefit and education opportunity for online Ecampus degrees and classes.
I suggest that these six disruptive demographic trends will also impact who Extension’s future audience will be and how we will deliver relevant and meaningful programs.
The OSU Extension Association (OSUEA) Search for Excellence and the Western Extension Directors Award (WEDA) for Excellence recognize outstanding accomplishments in Extension Education.
Summer Agriculture Institute (SAI) is a 3-credit, week long,graduate level course for K12 educators with little or no agriculturalbackground, offered through Oregon State University.
The academy will be held June 18-22 and June 25-29. Choose from courses in the areas of conflict management, communication, sustainable natural resources and leadership.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion offers the following recommendations to guide departments as they plan for the use of holiday decorations in their units.
This exchange will offer approximately 29 youth and 5 adults the opportunity to explore the vast historical and cultural traditions of Mongolia in a four week exchange program.
Several members of the Watershed Team will present the results of this comprehensive evaluation at the 2012 Association of Natural Resource Professionals conference in Hendersonville, NC next May.
Ford Institute for Community Building offers new "Build Your Own Youth Leadership Program: A Workshop to help develop and sustain a youth leadership program in your community"
We are looking to recruit TEAMS of colleagues that are interested in articulating proposals for agencies including NIFA (National Institute of Food and Agriculture) and other large funding sources.
Please help support the Professional Development Fund! I’m sorry that I don’t get to make this request to you in person. Just pretend you see me looking you in the eyes with a sincere smile.
In the near future, we will announce successful placement of regional administrators throughout the state followed soon by county leaders. But is that the end of “transformation”?
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated nationwide on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Approximately 125 professionals in health-related fields came together for a one-day conference at the end of June 2011 to strengthen their relationships as they embark on something quite new.
The College of Health & Human Sciences has aligned all of its Extension and non-Extension outreach and engagement programs into a unit called the Outreach Collaborative for a Healthy Oregon.
Each year the Provost asks colleges and divisions across the university to submit an academic report for the year past, including the most noteworthy accomplishments and activities.
OSU Extension Family and Community Health is pleased to announce a new service to help people better understand their communities by using statistics and other numerical information.
The OSU Extension Service 2010 Report of Accomplishments (ROA) and the 2012 Plan of Work (POW) were submitted to and approved by our federal partner, NIFA/USDA.
Retiring from one’s current position does not automatically mean entering a traditional retirement lifestyle, where the main focus of one’s life is on rest and leisure.
Many faculty members from EESC have just returned from the recent Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) and National Extension Technology Conference joint meetings in Denver.
Congratulations to the following OSU Extension Faculty for their promotion to Professor, Associate Professor, or Senior Instructor, effective July 1, 2011.
Three Oregon State University 4-H volunteers have been chosen for the
4-H Hall of Fame and will be recognized at the OSU Extension 4-H Summer Conference June 25 on campus.
Oregon delegation of six OSU Extension faculty members and one ECAN member attended the 2011 Public Issues Leadership Development (PILD) Conference in Washington D.C.
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the OSU Extension Service, the Governor has proclaimed April 21, 2011, as Oregon State University Extension Day.
The ECVWG helps you understand how your local economy and populations have changed in recent decades and what might be new economic opportunities for your community.
Congratulations to Mike Bondi, who was named 2011 Extension Forester of the Year by the Forest Landowners Association (FLA), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Even though Michelle Carrillo was only recently hired by OSU Extension as the 4-H Program Coordinator for Curry County she is no stranger to 4-H or to this area.
Oregon State University has been named a partner on a $20 million grant to ensure the long-term viability of cereal-based farming in the inland Pacific Northwest amid a changing climate.
Navigating Difference is a skill based cultural competency training designed to enhance the ability of faculty, staff, students, and administrators to work effectively with diverse audiences.
Through education and assistance, AgrAbility helps to minimize or eliminate obstacles that inhibit success in production agriculture or agriculture-related vocations.
OSU is one of 115 universities nationwide to receive its "Community Engagement" designation for campuses with exceptional, mutually beneficial relationships with the external communities they serve.
After 12-hour days in Afghanistan, Jay Addington would spend his evenings immersed in topics like botany, entomology, plant pathology and soils while completing the Ecampus Master Gardener program.
If you supply, design, maintain or manage landscapes in the Intermountain West, you will want to be in Redmond on February 9 & 10, 2011 to attend the 19th Annual High Desert Green Industry Conference!
The Women of Achievement awards honor the contributions and commitment of outstanding women on our campus and throughout Oregon whose work has benefited women.
For many publishing projects the role of the publisher remains as important as ever. Partnering with EESC, OSU Extension Service’s designated publisher, offers numerous advantageous for Extension.
As I have been calling the statewide deployment of the new Ask an Expert system a “game changer” for Oregon Extension, I have been asked to clarify what that really means. So, okay, here we go…
“Collaborate & Celebrate," a time for review of what's occurred, where we are, where we are headed, and how we play a part in one of the primary missions of the University.
Consider the opportunities that you will gain from being a charter member of National Association of Extension Program and Staff Development Professionals.
Take advantage of ECTU's great team of trainers, Karen Watte & Isaac Magana, and their short-course series. Invest half-hour to an hour with them and improve your skills and productivity!
Congratulations to this month's faculty, staff, volunteers and clientele who received awards of recognition, received grants, or have new publications.
Two Competitive Grants Workshops to be held Nov. 2010 & Jan. 2011. September eXtension’s professional development includes info on: the Ask an Expert Widget, Google Docs and Second Life.
30 Minute Sessions available this month on a several topics including: a quick way to find Extension educational materials, writing for online audiences, Ask an Expert
An update on the OSU Extension Service 2009 Report of Accomplishments and the 2011 Plan of Work... and some interesting statistics about last year's SOARS.
Ask an Expert is a place on a Web site where anyone can submit a question that will be automatically sent to an appropriate Extension faculty member who will offer an answer or information...
