Purdue Extension

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Purdue Extension

• Chuck Hibberd, Director
• Purdue Extension

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Chucks Vision for Purdue Extension

• Purdue Extension
• will be the premier provider
• of research-based information
• for the residents of Indiana and beyond
• to enhance peoples lives
• and livelihood

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Land-Grant Mission

• Teaching
• Research
• Extension
• International Programs

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Integrated Mission
Extension
Research
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The Research-Extension Continuum
Issues (Problems and Opportunities)

• Extension programs
• Educational Resources
• Workshops/ Conferences
• Demonstrations/ Field Days
• New technology
• Media

Adaptation and Application
Clientele Condition
Discovery/ Knowledge
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Purdue University

• Engagement Vice Provost
• Technical Assistance Program
• Center for Regional Development
• Center of Young Entrepreneurs
• Small Business Development Centers
• Purdue Extension

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Extension in Your Department

• Academic Departments
• All except Biochemistry
• Specialists and A/P Staff
• Role of Extension in your department
• Translate research-based information
• Inform research and teaching
• Connect with clientele
• Promote scholarship

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County-based Extension

• 93 offices
• 274 Educators
• Budget
• 45 County
• 40 State
• 15 Grant/Fee
• Front Door

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Collaboration to Accomplish the Extension Mission

• Extension Educators

• Extension Specialists

• Program delivery with some development
• Local/regional focus (real-time response to
  issues)
• Issue identification program strategy
  functions as convener/mobilizer, change agent,
  transformer, developer
• Resource development
• Collaborate on educational resources
• Evaluates creative teaching methods
• Fee revenue, donations, etc.
• Partnerships
• Extensive direct teaching in a variety of
  settings
• Follow-up (one-on-one, media)
• Program assessment

• Program development with some delivery
• Regional/national focus (focus on problem
  prevention and proactive solutions)
• Issue identification resource development
  strategy
• Resource development
• Publications, websites, decision-support tools,
  curricula
• Explores creative teaching methods
• Grants, etc.
• Partnerships
• Direct teaching focused on major conferences,
  workshops or regional programs
• Program assessment

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So, who gets to play?
Everyone is important to the process and to the
solution!!!
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Excellence in Extension

• We recognize
• Outstanding, broad-based customer service
• New audiences
• Transformational extension programs
• Innovation and creativity
• Scholarly outputs
• Publications, curricula, web resources, new
  technology, etc.
• Teamwork (specialist/educator/constituent)
• New partnerships and resources
• Leadership
• Organizational citizenship
• Extending your circle of influence

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Elements of a Transformational Extension Program

• Choose real issues, important to our clientele
• Educational objectives (Logic model)
• Identify outcome, target audience, method
• Adequately resourced
• Educational resources
• Funding entrepreneurism is crucial
• Effectively marketed
• Delivered in a learner-centered environment
• Assess outcomes (short, medium long-term)

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Raising the Bar
High
Transformational extension programs (educational
and empowerment strategies focused on complex
issues)
Broad-based impact with significant changes in
behavior, practice or condition
Level 4
Workshops, conferences and other educational
strategies with specific learning objectives
High impact to target group (could be
transformational on relatively simple issues)
Level 3
Depth of programming
Media work, civic club presentations and other
strategies to disperse information
Probably low impact but wide dispersal of
information and ideas
Level 2
One-on-one contacts, service roles
Potentially high individual impact
Level 1
Low
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Things to know about Extension

• Focus on issues important to our clientele
• Effective educational resources and programs
• Scholarship
• Make a positive difference

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Extension Session 1230 pm

• Scholarship of Extension Tom Jordan
• Transformational Extension Programming Peggy
  Titus
• How to succeed?
• Maria Marshall, Ag Economics
• Mike Schutz, Animal Science