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March 29, 2002
BUDGET UPDATE
Seems like each week the Friday Update has contained information
on the budget process in Olympia. Well, I can't seem to break that
pattern just because the legislature has adjourned. This week the
Provost requested each unit respond with budget reduction strategies
to prepare the university's dialogue with the Regents regarding
tuition rate increases and appropriate level of budget reduction.
Rest assured Cooperative Extension will approach any budget reduction
exercise guided by the strategic plans while minimizing the impact
on programs and faculty and staff. The timeline for this initial
process includes the scenarios presented to the provost today, Friday,
in general terms. The WSU upper administration will next provide
the Regents with a draft plan showing a range of tuition increases
and budget reduction scenarios. After consent of the Regents, the
administration will discuss the draft plan with the University community,
including students, faculty, staff, and various constituent groups.
This process remains to be developed. The next step is to provide
the Regents the university's recommendations following input received.
On Tuesday, April 30th the Board of Regents will host a public hearing
on tuition rates and budget setting. Student, faculty, and constituent
groups will be invited to testify. We don't know details about this
process at this time, but you can put the April 30th date on your
calendar. The goal is for the Regents to take action on Friday,
May 10 regarding tuition and the budget. Watch for further details.
UPCOMING VIDEO EVENTS
Wednesday, April 3, 9:30-10:30 am - Extension Engaged -
"Strengthening Families/Prevention Research"
Featured guest: Dr. Laura Griner Hill, WSU Human Development Department,
Pullman. This program will feature a review of some of the research
on the "Strengthening Families Program," an exciting intervention
for families with young teens. The research has shown that this
7-week intervention has multiple, long-term outcomes in increased
family cohesion and decreased teen substance use and aggression.
Interested participants may want to contact Dr. Hill ahead of time
to receive copies of research articles on the "Strengthening
Families Program. Interested faculty and staff in Pullman can be
part of the audience in room T-101 of the Food Science and Human
Nutrition Building. Please plan to be seated 15 minutes before airtime.
A videostream can be viewed at: http://caheinfo.wsu.edu/video/stream.html
Satellite information is: G-3 Ch.02 Vertical: 3740 MHz.
9:00am Test: 9:30 to 10:30am program
Thursday, April 4- 11:15-12:15
"Digital Pathways - Stories from the Front Line"
Join with business, health care, education and civic leaders within
your community and others across the state to discuss how computers,
Internet and modern telecommunications can benefit your business,
organization and community. Featured guest include:
- Jon Ochs, President Eureka Software, a successful software application
business operated from a family farm located in a rural corner of
Whitman County
-Nancy Vorhees, C.O.O., Inland Northwest Health Services. Nancy
and her INHS team lead a consortium of 28 hospitals and mental health
centers recognized for innovation in providing access to clinical
care, and health care education to remote locations through the
use of telecommunications
- Frank Walter, Superintendent, Quillayute Valley School District.
Frank and his school district, located on the tip of the Olympic
Peninsula, are considered a national leader in the innovative use
of digital tools to prepare kids and their community's future work
force for success in a fast moving information.
There are currently 16 viewing sites participating in hosting this
event, go to the Web site http://cbdd.wsu.edu
for the site nearest you. Interested faculty and staff in Pullman
can be part of the audience in room T-101 of the Food Science and
Human Nutrition Building. Please plan to be seated 15 minutes before
airtime. A videostream can be viewed at: http://caheinfo.wsu.edu/video/stream.html
Satellite information is: G-3 Ch. 03 Horizontal: 3760 MHz.
10:45am Test: 11:15 to 12:15 program
IMPACT STATEMENTS: "BEST OF THE WEST"
On February 12-14, 2002 the WCC 208 - Western Regional Impact Statement
Development Committee met in Ft. Collins and decided to create a
Web based impact reporting system entitled "Best of the West".
This was accomplished, and 128 individual state citations were
included
in the Web page. The plan was to include photographs that represent
the topic area, and eventually provide links back to each state
as well as provide a printer friendly format for those who require
a hard copy of the report. In addition, this web page is linked
to national impact database which may be viewed at www.reeusda.gov/success/impact.htm.
The Best of the West web page may be viewed at www.ag.unr.edu/wri
and we encourage you to view the page and provide comment/suggestions
for improving Best of the West and suggestions for new topics. The
writing committee felt that this web approach would be more contemporary
and cost effective. WCC would also appreciate hearing your thoughts
for improving the marketing of the impact reports. At the national
impact writing effort last week in Washington D.C., members of WCC-208
learned of a study sponsored by the Farm Foundation on Congressional
aides awareness and opinion of the national impact topic sheets.
In general there was a lack of familiarity with the impact sheets
and the national database, but those who saw them regarded them
as useful, something they'd refer to and considered them to be well
written, well designed and organized. They would prefer to have
a personal contact named for each citation so they could easily
obtain more detailed information. They preferred the web as the
single most preferred channel for obtaining information and they
recommended positioning the web site so that it can be accessed
through key word searches. The final report from this study will
be provided when it becomes available, but the ideas presented are
useful and suggest that the web site for Best of the West is an
appropriate venue.
Administrative Advisors to WCC-208: John Hammel, Idaho, Milan Rewerts,
Colorado, Ron Pardini, Nevada, and Mike Harrington, Executuve Director
INITIATIVE LAUNCHED WITH NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Chris Koehler, Spokane County, and Dora Rumsey, SE District Director,
joined more than 240 Cooperative Extension Service faculty and field
staff representing 46 states and the District of Columbia came together
last week in Myrtle Beach to learn about the "Financial Security
in Later Life" (FSLL) National Initiative. Colien Hefferan,
CSREES Administrator, in her address to participants said that Extension
national initiatives target issues with long-term implications and
focus on problems that have a research-based educational solution.
With a 5-year lifespan, national initiatives are meant to expand
the capacity of the land-grant system for research and education
related to the target issue.
THE EXTENSION WORKER'S CODE, 1922
Be Courageous
"If you can keep courage when others lose heart; if you can
keep pushing on when others turn back; if you can smile and wait
when others play the coward and quit; if you can be serene in the
face of misfortune and failure; if you can keep your nerve and a
level head when others get panicky; if you can carry yourself like
a conqueror, keep your fixity of purpose when others waver; and
you still refuse to lose courage and grip on yourself, then you
may know that your work is a success and that there is a hero or
heroine in you as noble as any that ever gave up his life on the
field of battle for a great cause."
Taken from The Extension Worker's Code, Bulletin No. 33, 1922,
Division of College Extension, Kansas State Agricultural College
SCHEDULE
Next week, April 1 - 5, Mike and Linda will be in Pullman all week.
Mike
Tate
Dean and Director
Linda Kirk Fox
Associate Director
Cooperative Extension
PO Box 646230
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6230
Ph 509-335-2933
Fax 509-335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu
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