October
21, 2005
Topics in today's issue of Extension Update:
eXtension FAQ SUBMISSION REQUEST
eXtension is beginning an exciting phase in
its development by launching a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) initiative.
WSU Extension Administration strongly supports this endeavor and requests your
active participation. Please add a few FAQs from your discipline.
A major goal of eXtension is to be customer/client driven and complement the
work done by our county Extension offices nationwide. Another goal is to reduce
duplication of efforts across the Extension system. Most people looking for
information have questions...that's why they call or walk into the county Extension
office or go on-line to search for information. We as a system spend many
hours helping our clients find answers to their questions, and many of those
questions are asked over and over and over... by different people in different
counties and states.
Capturing those questions and answers that we respond to on a continual basis
as agents and specialists, tagging their appropriate reach and content area,
and sharing this knowledge base nationwide is exactly what this eXtension Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ) project is all about.
We are asking Extension educators and specialists, who typically get and respond
to those questions, to contribute to this effort. I am hopeful that WSU can
be a leading contributor to this initiative. Many of you already have FAQs
and I encourage you to submit these to the national system. FAQs can be coded
for local, state, or national applicability. For those who do not have pre-existing
FAQs, develop three to five to submit. In addition, teams are welcome to contribute
a set of FAQs.
To learn more about the FAQ submissions, register yourself (obtain a password)
with the FAQ Web site and login. The first page after logging in contains a
link to the FAQ guidelines for entering questions and answers into the system;
please review them.
Register and get an eXtension password. Point your Web browser
to http://faq.extension.org. Just below the Login and Password fields you see
a link to that says "you
may register here." Click on that link and provide the information requested.
Once you submit that information, the FAQ system sends you an email message
that contains your assigned password.
To submit an FAQ, log into faq.extension.org and enter your email address
as your login ID and the password that came to you in the email message, and
click the "Submit" button. This takes you to a screen where you begin
to enter your actual questions and answers. Before you get to this point, I
recommend you review the FAQ guidelines for suggestions on how to frame these
questions and answers.
As you enter questions and answers, you are asked to indicate whether your
answer is only appropriate for a certain state or growing zone. See the
growing zones relate to hardiness zones for plant or tree growth.
If your answer is not affected by geographic region, then do not select either
the state or the growing zone.
In entering questions and answers, do not worry about whether someone else
may have already entered something similar. It is important not only to collect
relevant questions and answers, but also to know how frequent and widespread
these same questions are asked. So, it is best for each of you individually
to think about those questions you yourself receive most frequently and enter
them into the system. If you have some of your more common answers already
in electronic format (email message, word processing document, Web page, etc.)
you may certainly copy/paste the answers into the text block on this FAQ Web
page.
Please submit your single most Frequently Asked Question by October 31, 2005.
Then, add three to five more by November 15, 2005. The system will be monitored
the first week of November to assess the success of FAQ entries.
Finally, if you want to learn more about eXtension and what it is trying to
accomplish, we encourage you to visit the eXtension
Web site.
Thank you for your helping WSU have prominence in eXtension and in making
eXtension a success!
CALL FOR CAHNRS AWARD NOMINATIONS
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged
to submit nominations for the CAHNRS and Extension Excellence Awards for faculty,
staff, teams and students.
It is strongly recommended that department award committees begin their nomination
process early in the fall semester in order to complete the nomination packets
by the deadline. It takes time to gather the information and compile a quality
packet to submit by the due date in mid January. Please let the CAHNRS Academic
Programs office know if they can provide any information or if you would like
to review previous nomination packets.
Guidelines, evaluation
criteria, and selection process information. Deadline for all
award nomination packets is January 20, 2006. No nomination packets will be
accepted after this date. Submit completed packets to: Office of Academic Programs,
Hulbert Hall 423, P.O. Box 646243, Pullman, WA 99164-6243.
WORKSHOP FOR DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND ACADEMIC DIRECTORS
The Office of the Provost
and Human Resource Services are collaborating in the offering of a series of
Workshops for Department Chairs and (Academic) Directors. The next session
is titled “Dealing
with Faculty Personnel Issues”
and is scheduled for November 4th from 7:30 am – 9:00 am. Presenters
will be Fran McSweeney, Sylvia Glover, Theresa Elliot-Cheslek, Jim Petersen
and Sherry Gordon.
Available Resources include: The Faculty Disciplinary Policy, Research Misconduct,
and Keeping Your Dean Informed. Click
here to go directly to the video stream.
Locations:
WSU Pullman EME B-46
WSU Spokane SIRT Room #310
WSU Tri-Cities TWST Room #256
WSU Vancouver VCLS Room 117
Future workshops are as follows:
The workshops will regularly air via WHETS to WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities
and WSU Vancouver. They are also available by video streaming (the links have
been set for the 2005 workshops and are noted above).
The username and password for all Chair and Director Workshop events are:
Username: workshop, Password: Hrs318. Please note that username and passwords
are CaSe SeNsItIvE.
Archived video streams will be available at: http://experience.wsu.edu/.
If you are not in Pullman, you will need to notify Karen Zucco-Gatlin in HRS
in order to obtain any handout materials in advance. She can be contacted at
kzucco-gatlin@wsu.edu.
If you have questions regarding the workshops you can contact
Fran McSweeney or
Karen Zucco-Gatlin.
EQUITY AND DIVERSITY PRINTED MATERIALS
In the last couple of months, the WSU
Office of the Vice President for Equity and Diversity and the units within,
have created new printed marketing materials to allow individuals to learn
more about what services the offices provide. The information pertains to the
offices of the Vice President for Equity and Diversity; Center for Human Rights;
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Allies Program; Talmadge Anderson Heritage House;
and the Women's Resource Center. You may view these materials at http://diversity.wsu.edu and
click on Printed Materials on the side bar. Hard copies may be obtained by
e-mailing
christyf@wsu.edu. Be sure to bookmark the page as updates will be made periodically
when new materials are produced.
2005-2006 FACTS AND FIGURES BROCHURES AVAILABLE
An excellent source of information
about Washington State University, the 2005-2006 edition of the WSU Statewide
Facts & Figures brochure is available.
Brochure contents include Selected Research Programs, Academic Highlights,
Quick Facts, Distinguished Alumni and WSU History. When folded, the brochure
measures 3 and three-quarter by 6 and one-quarter inches. To receive copies,
e-mail
aensor@wsu.edu in WSU University Relations or call 509-335-1253. Small
quantities will be sent by interdepartmental mail. If larger quantities are
available, arrangements to pick up the copies will need to be made by contacting
Alicia at the same e-mail address and phone number.
WSU EXTENSION HOSTS ALL UNIVERSITY LECTURE
William D. Ruckelshaus, U.S. EPA administrator for Presidents Nixon and Regan,
Chair Salmon Recovery Funding Board for Washington State will be on campus
to deliver an all university lecture, “Salmon Recovery: A New Application
of Democracy” on Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Food
Science & Human Nutrition T-101 or videostream
on the Web.
William D. Ruckelshaus is currently a principal in the Madrona Investment
Group (Seattle), Chair of the Salmon Recovery Board for the State of Washington,
and Chair of the WSU/UW Policy Consensus Center Advisory Board. He has served
several presidents in key leadership positions, including Administer of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Nixon and Regan), Assistant Attorney
General for the Department of Justice and Acting Director of the FBI (Nixon),
U.S. envoy to the Pacific Salmon Treaty (Clinton), and member of the Commission
on Ocean Policy (Bush). He also has served as a member of the United Nations
World Commission on Environment and Development and Chair of the World Resources
Institute.
Co-Sponsored by: WSU Extension, Division of Governmental Studies & Services,
and The Foley Institute
UW AND WSU COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
The University of Washington PNASH (Pacific
Northwest Agriculture Safety and Health) Center is collaborating with WSU Extension
and Dr. Michael Swan’s
students in the Agricultural Communications Program. The purpose is to gather
information on the media habits/information sources of our producers here is
Washington. This is for a new state-funded project that aims to translate and
communicate to AG producers and applicators the current scientific information
on what is known on the health effects of pesticides and other health and safety
issues.
This is for a new state funded project that aims to translate and communicate
to AG producers and applicators the current scientific information on what
is known on the health effects of pesticides and other health and safety issues.
The information will be gathered through a simple short self-administered survey
at meetings and in depth phone interviews with selected commodity group key
players. Students who gather all of this information, they are ACT club members
(Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow). WSU staff who helped by reviewing
and revising our draft survey form (Karen Lewis, Carol Ramsey, and Kathryn
Daniels). You may be contacted or growers you work with. Thanks for your support
of this important survey and data gathering process.
SEARCH AND SCREENING COMMITTEE,
CHAIR, DEPT OF ANIMAL SCIENCES
The national search for the Chair of the Department
of Animal Sciences is underway. Members of the search and screening committee
are as follows:
Kristen Johnson and Ron Kincaid (co-chairs);
Kyle Caires (student representative);
Sheryl Cox (industry representative);
Jay Gordon (industry representative);
Zhihua Jiang (assistant professor, Pullman);
Art Linton (Extension Beef Specialist,
Prosser);
Don Nelson (Extension specialist, Pullman);
Tom Platt (WSU Extension,
Lincoln County);
Jerry Reeves (professor, Pullman); and
Vaughn Wasem (staff
representative).
SCHEDULE
Linda will be in Pullman Monday and Tuesday, in Ellensburg on Wednesday
for the CSANR Advisory Committee Meeting, in Wenatchee Thursday at the Tree
Fruit Research and Extension Center, and in Seattle on Friday. Ed is in the
Republic of Georgia on an international assignment, returning to Spokane on
November 5th.
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Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Dean and Director
Washington State University Extension
PO Box 646230, 411 Hulbert Hall
Pullman WA 99164-6230
(509) 335-2933 Office
(509) 335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
FAX (509) 335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu
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