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February 25,
2005
Topic's in today's issue of Extension Update
WATER RESOURCES TOPIC OF MARCH 4th EXTENSION ENGAGED
The March
4 edition of Extension Engaged will look at WSU Extension programs
for protecting urban and community water resources. Our
guests will include the head of the WSU water quality leadership
team Bob Simmons from Mason County Extension, Pat Pearson from
Jefferson County talking about the successful and expanding Beach
Watchers program, Thurston County's Karen Janowitz on water resource
training for real estate professionals, and Pierce County's Curtis
Hinman discussing advancements in low-impact development. Join
us for the live broadcast starting at 9 am in room T-101 of the
Food Science & Human Nutrition building, or tune
in the video stream.
WSU COMMITTEE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND
OUTREACH (CEREO):
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE
To capture the breadth and depth of environmentally-related
activities at WSU, CEREO invites every WSU faculty member and environmental
stakeholder to become affiliated with this university-wide effort
to coordinate campus activities so the overall environmental program
at WSU can become more than the sum of its individual parts. This
is especially important in light of planned reorganization efforts
currently underway at WSU and since environmental research and
education is one of the major themes higher administration is emphasizing
on campus.
You can express your interest in this proposed endeavor by simply
completing our Web-based
response form and clicking "submit." Please
respond today! Your response information will then become part
of our database, and included in a roster of WSU colleagues possessing
expertise in one or more identified environmental research, education,
and outreach areas. We hope you will become involved in the efforts
to form the new Center. Extension county and regional faculty along
with extension staff are welcomed. Please go online and express
your interest in CEREO.
The committee is discussing ways greater importance can be given
to environmental research, education and outreach at WSU. We are
now focusing our efforts on significantly improving the quality
and quantity of interdisciplinary environmental research, education
and outreach.
The committee will complete a plan by Spring Semester of 2005
to coordinate, promote and strengthen a wide range of environmental
activities at WSU. This solicitation of interest will help us
gauge
campus interest in defining a baseline of current levels and
areas of environmental research, education and outreach, and will
be
used to set the stage for moving forward with the plan.
Committee History and Vision:
The WSU Committee for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach
(CEREO) represents WSU colleges and programs dealing with the
environment,
and includes the sciences, engineering, social sciences, and education.
The committee was formed at the request of Dean Michael Griswold
(College of Sciences) and Dean R. James Cook (College of Agricultural,
Human & Natural Resources), but our membership and our interests
extend beyond the two colleges to the entire campus.
If you need any additional information please feel free to contact
our committee chair, Keith Blatner. Thanks for
your interest. We look forward to hearing from you!
RESERVATIONS NOW OPEN FOR SHOWCASE LUNCHEON AND BANQUET
Join friends
and colleagues on April 1 for Showcase 2005, WSU's day-long celebration
of the achievements of its faculty and staff.
Both April 1 events are part of Showcase activities that also include
a 9 a.m. - 12:00 noon juried poster session in the Compton Union
Building to showcase the recently published and ongoing research
and creative activities of faculty, staff and students. The poster
session will be followed -- in Webster Physical Sciences Building,
Room B16 -- by a noon-1:30 p.m. luncheon featuring the Distinguished
Faculty Address delivered by Mark G. Kuzyk of Physics. Also on
April 1, the 'Celebrating Excellence - An Evening Honoring Our
Faculty and Staff' banquet in Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum
begins at 5:30 p.m. Honored during it will be recipients of faculty
and staff awards, as well as newly tenured and promoted faculty,
including those named Regents' Professors.
Online
reservations and a schedule are online.
Space for both the luncheon and banquet is limited. Reservations
are required and will be accepted until capacity is reached or
until March 23. Tickets are $30 each for the banquet. There is
no luncheon charge.
Contact: Tena Old, WSU Marketing Communications.
2005 NATIONAL DIVERSITY CONFERENCE
Take advantage of the first
Diversity Conference sponsored jointly by the "Change Agent States for Diversity" (CASD) and
the "Change Agent States for Engagement" (CASE) project
participants. The CASD/CASE project, initiated by Cooperative Extension,
is a catalytic step in beginning the transformation of the Land
Grant system. It is a consortium of fourteen states dedicated to
supporting greater cultural diversity in the Land Grant system,
by bringing the needed technical skills and training to each of
the member states. Through this collaborative approach, the consortium
has developed successful models and strategies that can be applied
throughout the system.
CASD and CASE in partnership with other collaborators, is dedicated
to be developing successful models and strategies to support greater
cultural diversity throughout the Land Grant University system.
These partners will provide a forum for sharing evidence-based
knowledge of successful strategies for impacting organizational
change needed to meet the challenging issues of an increasingly
diverse society in all sectors, including rural communities. The
conference will focus on sharing the results of the CASD/CASE project
and their implications for changes in land grant institutions.
The conference will be held April 27-29, 2005 at the Airport Marriott
in Greensboro, NC. The theme is "Creating a Climate for change:
Strategies in the Land Grant System to Lead a Diverse America." To
register or for more information go to the conference
Web site.
INTERNATIONAL GLOBALIZATION, DIVERSITY AND EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Extension
is co-sponsoring a diversity conference with the WSU College of
Education that directly follows All Extension Conference
2005. The International
Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference is being held
March 3 -5 in Pullman. I'm pleased to say there are several Extension
professionals participating, including the following presenters
and their session
titles:
"How Rude! Protocol Project: Melding Diversity and Employment"
Janet Lambarth, Pend Oreille County Extension
"Internationalizing Extension: Lessons Learned Abroad"
David Youmans, Prosser IAREC
"Extension Role in Higher Education: A Case Study of Latino
Youth in Washington"
Sonia G. Morales Osegueda, King County
"World Culture Experience Through Film"
Debra Kollock, Washington State University Learning Center;
Peter Griessmann, Stevens County; Birgitta Ingemanson, "Aqui
Estamos Divididos/We're Divided Here: Racial
Divisions, School Segregation, and the Implications for School-Based
Community Development in a Rural Town"
Esther Prins, Washington State University Extension, College of
Education
NACDEP CONFERENCE LAUNCHES NEW ASSOCIATION
The National
Association of Community Development Extension Professionals Conference was the inaugural conference of the newest Extension association.
The conference
was held February 15 - 18, 2005 in Las Vegas. If you want to know
more about the association and the conference, contact any one
of these attendees from WSU Extension:
- Bill Gillis, Center to Bridge the Digital Divide, WSU Pullman
- Matt Mitchell, Center to Bridge the Digital Divide, WSU Spokane
- Doreen Hauser-Lindstrom, Center to Bridge the Digital Divide,
Spokane County Extension
- Matt Carroll, Natural Resource
Sciences, WSU Pullman
- Jim Freed, Thurston County Extension,
Olympia
- Al Kowitz, Stevens County Extension, Colville
- Debra Kollock,
Stevens
County Extension, Colville
- Rob McDaniel, WSU Extension,
Pullman
- Mike Hackett, Snohomish County Extension, Everett
- Kay
Haaland,
Skagit County Extension, Mt. Vernon
- Kelsey Gray, Community
and Rural Sociology, WSU Spokane
- Mike Erp, WSU Spokane
- Mike
Gaffney
(cancelled because of illness), Governmental Studies and
Services, WSU Pullman
- Steven Meltzer, Area Health Education
Center,
WSU Spokane
- Bettie Rundlett, Area Health Education Center,
WSU Spokane
- Doug Stienbarger, Clark County Extension, Brush Prairie
EDEN CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
The focus for this year's
Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) Annual Meeting in Fargo,
North Dakota (October 18 - 21)
is "Sharing Disaster Education Programming." If you have
a topic or program that would fit this focus, please consider submitting
a proposal for a
presentation and/or poster. Submissions are encouraged in areas
such
as: Curriculum/Programs; Network/Capacity Building; Training, both
External and Internal; Resources/Materials; and EDEN Programming.
For
full details on this call for posters and presentations, please
refer to the EDEN Annual
Meeting Web page and
click on "Posters and Presentations." For further information,
contact Abigail Borron, EDEN Communication Specialist, 615 W.
State
St., West Lafayette, IN 47907, 765-494-4390, www.eden.lsu.edu,
or www.ces.purdue.edu/eden.
REMINDER: PERSONAL GIFTS FROM VENDORS
RCW 42.52.140 states that
no state officer of state employee may receive, accept, take, seek,
or solicit, directly or indirectly,
any thing of economic value as a gift, gratuity, or favor from
a person if it could be reasonably expected that the gift, gratuity
or favor would influence the vote, action, or judgment of the officer
or employee, or be considered as part of a reward for action or
inaction. Therefore, if your job at WSU includes making decisions
about a contract with a person, firm or corporation that provides
property, material, supplies, equipment, commodities, or services
to WSU, you must not accept anything given to you personally from
that person, firm, or corporation including money, meals, and small
items. You can read the full text of the law at atg.wa.gov,
or write WSU Internal
Audit or call 5-2001 .
WSU Internal Audit and the Washington State Attorney General's
Office provide this information as a courtesy to WSU employees
who face this issue. If you have questions, please contact Norm
Coffman.
SCHEDULE
Next week we look forward to seeing many of you at the All Extension
Conference in Pullman. Safe travels, see you soon!
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Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Interim Dean and 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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