Linkages Between Instruction and Research StationsCounties

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Linkages Between Instructionand Research
Stations/Counties

• CTAHR Farm Managers Meeting
• DLNR Conference Room
• November 6, 2008
• Kamuela, Hawaii
• Charles Kinoshita

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Problems Facing Academics in CTAHR

• Under-sized majors and under-enrolled classes.
• Aging instruction laboratory and field
  facilities.
• Insufficient number of instructors and narrowing
  breadth of expertise.

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Providing Meaningful Experiences for Students
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Engaging Our Future Workforce and Allies
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Providing Quality Research Facilities for Students
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Supporting CTAHR Instruction
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Expertise of County Extension Agents

• Commercial crops, taro
• Community development
• Community service
• Consumer economics
• Cut flowers, orchids, cut foliage, lei flowers
• Disease management
• Family development
• Foods and human nutrition
• Food safety education
• 4-H youth development

• Fruit and vegetable crops
• Fruitfly research and education
• Healthy lifestyles
• Landscape, turf
• Leadership and volunteer development
• Livestock
• Master Gardener Program
• Ornamental crops
• Technology and education

Nearly 90 of our County Extension Agents are the
product of UHM (mostly, of CTAHR)
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Quid Pro Quo

• CTAHR can help Agents develop professionally.
• Research and instructional faculty have useful
  knowledge of value to stakeholders.