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February 27,
2004
PRESIDENT RAWLINS SELECTS THREE TOP STAFF TO BE HONORED MARCH 26TH
Washington State University will honor three of its staff members
with 2004 WSU President's Employee Excellence Awards during a March
26 reception and awards presentation. The winners are Robert Force,
WSU Extension, Learning Center coordinator, Jefferson County; Maxine
Andrews, assistant to the dean, College of Agricultural, Human
and Natural Resource Sciences; and Robert Hubner, photographer
for WSU Photo Services. The three will receive their awards at
a new university event, "Celebrating Excellence: An Evening
Honoring Our Faculty and Staff." See next article.
MARCH 26: MARK CALENDAR, GET TICKETS, HONOR EMPLOYEES
Join WSU President V. Lane Rawlins, Provost Robert Bates and your
colleagues "Celebrating Excellence: An Evening Honoring Our
Faculty and Staff" banquet. The show will recognize the university's
top faculty and staff award winners, as well as newly tenured and
promoted faculty. Held in Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum, it
begins at 6 p.m. Friday, March 26, as part of the second World
Class. Face to Face. SHOWCASE. The banquet succeeds the Faculty
Honors Convocation, held for the past three years, and the Employee
Excellence Awards ceremony and reception, held since 1990. A campus-wide
survey showed faculty and staff preferred a new approach.
For
more banquet information, see the
news release. Reservations are required
and may be made at the WSU
Conference and Professional Programs Web site or
call CAPPS at telephone at (509) 335-3530 or (800) 942-4978. Tickets
are $25 per person for WSU employees, $25 per person for
guests of WSU employees and $50 per person for the general public.
For more information, contact Tena Old, WSU Marketing Communications.
WASHINGTON STATE MAGAZINE ONLINE
Washington State
Magazine's Web site has "gone live" with three feature articles from the
current issue, plus some Web-exclusive goodies.
Look
for the feature article "Lonely, Beautiful, and Threatened:
Willapa Bay's advocates fend off invasions." The invasion referred
to is the infestation of Spartina, imported by accident from the
East Coast, collects enough silt to raise the bay floor by up to
a foot, turning much of Willapa's enviably productive tidal zone
into a giant, unkempt lawn. At the same time, other introduced plants
and animals and two opportunistic species of native shrimp also threaten
to spoil the pristine bay. "If you lose Willapa Bay, it's of
both state and national significance," says Kim Patten ('83
Ph.D. Horticulture), a Washington State University Extension faculty,
researcher and associate professor of horticulture who is a leader
in the battle for the bay.
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES AT RISK (CYFAR) CONFERENCE IN SEATTLE
Registration for the 2004 CYFAR conference, May 11-14, is available
on-line with an early registration deadline of March 12. I encourage
you to attend and to designate faculty and staff to participate
in this important conference. Research and practice are highlighted
with participants gaining useful knowledge and materials as well
as motivation to reach at-risk audiences. This conference is an
ideal professional development opportunity for many family and
consumer science land-grant faculty and staff. You are also encouraged
to invite your community collaborators to register. We hope to
have the opportunity to interact with you while we are in Seattle.
To register for the CYFAR Conference, go to the online
registration page.
Reservations
for the Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Avenue, must be made through
the Westin Reservations phone number: 1-800-WESTIN-1 (1-800-937-8461).
Tell them that you are attending the "Children, Youth, and
Families At-Risk" (not CYFAR) conference.
ECOP AND EXTENSION DIRECTORS/ADMINISTRATORS MOVE AHEAD ON e-EXTENSION
Last week in Phoenix, Mike Tate and Linda Fox attended the Extension
Directors/Administrators Conference. Discussions of the FY04 budget
cuts for Extension, and the priorities for federal funding for
FY05 were discussed. You can read the fact sheets on the National
Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
FY05 budget priorities at the Web site of the "Blue
Ribbon Team," the advocacy firm for the Board on Ag Assembly, Budget
and Advocacy Committee. Click
on Documents at the top of the page. Then open the pdf files for
the NASULGC federal funding FY05 Position Papers:
- Restore
the 10 percent cuts
- Equity
for All of American's Land-Grant Universities (1890 capacity
building)
- Expanded
Food and Nutrition Education Program
- Competitive
Research Programs
- Agrosecurity
We
are pleased to announce that a decision was reached to move forward
with implementation of e-Extension. Carl O'Connor has been asked
to organize a task force that will function under oversight from
the ECOP Budget and Legislative Committee, to explore short-term
and long-term funding. The work of the task force will be guided
by the discussion at the National
Extension Directors/Administrators meeting in Phoenix which indicated
a preference for an assessment to generate start up work. Concurrently,
a second task force to initiate development and implementation will
be organized by Ron Brown and will include many from the committee
that has been meeting for the last two years. If you want to see
the latest presentation about e-Extension, go to the Web site http://e-extensionproject.info/,
click on the PowerPoint dated February 2004.
In
summary, President Lee Todd, University of Kentucky, closed the
Extension Directors/Administrators meeting with an excellent presentation
on the value and importance of Cooperative Extension as a distinguishing
characteristic of Land-Grant Universities. I would recommend you
go to the University
of Kentucky Web site and review "Revisioning Cooperative Extension" to review
their university-wide Extension programs.
PAYMENT FOR MARKETING ITEMS DUE NOW
For those of you who have not submitted your payment for WSU Extension
marketing materials, please do so as soon as possible. You can
submit payment to Christy Fitzgerald, WSU Extension, PO Box 646230,
Pullman, WA 99164-6230 either by IRI or check written out to WSU
Extension. If you have questions, please email
Christy.
The marketing order will be processed on Monday, March 1, 2004,
so expect to receive your items within 6-8 weeks!
SCHEDULE
Mike and Linda will both be in Pullman only on Friday next week.
Mike will be in Washington DC and Seattle Monday through Thursday
and Linda will be in Washington DC Monday through Thursday. They
will be participating in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education
Program (EFNEP) 35th Anniversary and meetings of CARET (Council
on Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching) and the Board
on Human Sciences.
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Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Associate Dean and Associate Director
Washington State University Extension
PO Box 646230
Pullman WA 99164-6230
(509) 335-2933 Office
(509) 335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
FAX (509) 335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu
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