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January
16, 2005
Topics in today's issue of Extension Update:
OLYMPIA UPDATE: WSU PROPOSES TECHNOLOGY OPERATING REQUESTS
For the
2006 supplemental legislative session, WSU proposes a joint UW-WSU
Technology Transfer request including the Extension Policy Consensus
Center, personnel and operating budget for the ag “Weathernet” sites,
and the Biologically Intensive and Organic Ag program that promotes
natural solutions for agriculture, are among supplemental operating
budget requests submitted by WSU. These are now under consideration
by the governor, who will release her budget Tuesday, and the Legislature.
To read about the WSU supplemental operating request, click on this
link.: http://www.olympia.wsu.edu/News/2006_News_Two.stm.
NEW PROCESS FOR FOURTH QUARTER 2005
LOBBYING REPORTS
The Fourth
Quarter 2005 (October to December) Lobbying Reports are requested
for both STATE and FEDERAL reporting. The State Form and instructions
are found in the Business Policies and Procedures Manual (BPPM) (10.25).
The Federal Form and instructions are found in BPPM (10.26). New this
quarter, please send both the State and Federal paper versions to Government
Relations, campus zip 1048, and the electronic version of the State
Form, PDF or Word, to
lenoblel@energy.wsu.edu by
January 19, 2006. If there is no reportable State and/or
Federal activity, please fully complete the top portion, sign and
return the form/s stating "no reportable activity". Please see the
Government Relations Web site at http://www.olympia.wsu.edu for
more information about reporting lobbying and the links to the forms.
Please distribute copies of this memo to all staff, AP personnel
and faculty who have had contact with Washington State Legislators
and their staff, and/or Congressional Members and their staff, and/or
high level state & federal executive agency personnel or officers.
Questions regarding state and federal reporting should be directed
to Laurel le Noble, Government Relations at (360-956-2025 or from
the Pullman Campus at 8-2025).
REPORTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN WSU EXTENSION ANNUAL REPORTS
2005
As
you are aware, President Rawlins has emphasized the role WSU plays
in the state in economic development. While there is no standard
definition for the university’s activities in economic development,
it is clear WSU Extension contributes a great deal in this arena.
The framework shared with the WSU Regents includes:
- Creating Washington’s Future Workforce
- Generation and Transfer of Ideas/Technologies
- Partnerships with Communities, Organizations, Business/Industry,
and Schools
- Targeted Engagement to Strengthen Institutions and Overall Quality
of Life
To make our programs more visible in this dialogue, gathering information
from the AICS, Briefing Reports, Impact Reports, and other annual
reports of acccomplishments, is imperative.
The Program Directors for WSU Extension have agreed that asking
you to use these KEY WORDS when entering your AICS and Impact Reports
will be extremely helpful in the online search process. This does
not imply there isn’t an expectation to report all outcomes
from Extension program activities if programs do not fit into the
KEY WORDS described below.
**My previous email with these instructions listed the KEY WORDS
in bold and that caused confusion. AICS doesn’t accept bold
or italics. Sorry for the confusion my email may have caused.
Economic Development defined: WSU Extension recognizes
economic development as an investment in Washington's communities. The
WSU system seeks to maximize this investment through building
the knowledge and capacity of private, public and non-profit leaders
to undertake actions which improve the economic well-being and
quality of life within our diverse local communities.
- Creating Washington’s Future Workforce
Key words:
- Career
exploration (youth programs)
- Job skill
enhancement
- Professional
development/certificate courses/continuing education
- Generation and Transfer of Ideas/Technologies
Key words:
- Research
that links and adds value to the state economy
- Research
to commercial application
- Partnerships with Communities, Organizations, Business/Industry,
and Schools
Key words:
- Development
of community leaders
- New businesses
created
- Businesses
enhanced, expanded or strengthen
- University-wide
collaboration
- Targeted Engagement to Strengthen Institutions and Overall Quality
of Life
Key words:
- Volunteers
magnify the resources of the university
- Diverse
cultural opportunities and appreciation for diversity
- Improved
health and well-being of citizens
- Children
and youth nurtured in safe and caring environments
4-H FOUNDATION GRANT REVIEW DEADLINE APPROACHES
The 4-H Foundation is accepting grant applications for the Harry
Burcalow and Chevron/Texaco Community Pride Programs. The goal of
these grant opportunities is to fund worthy 4-H youth development
programs and projects. The emphasis will be on short-term needs such
as new or innovative programs, seed money, emergency funds, or unanticipated
shortfalls. Such programs could be focused on, but not limited to,
education of youth and adults, expanding 4-H experiential learning
to youth and adults, and promoting diversity.
As a result of a new corporate partnership, AmericanWest Bank has
provided an additional $1,000, which will be available for projects
in the following counties: Spokane, Lincoln, Stevens, Whitman, Columbia,
Walla Walla, Benton, Yakima, and Grant. Please submit requests for
the AmericanWest Bank funds on the Harry Burcalow grant request form.
For all of the details and to download a copy of the grant applications,
visit the 4-H
Foundation Web site.
The grant deadline for these programs has been extended to December
31 for funding approximately January 31.
Source: Megan Riebe
DIVERSITY HIGHLIGHT
WSU Extension's Diversity Catalyst Team would
like to pay tribute to the myriad programs throughout the state that
serve our diverse populations' needs. The following is this
month's highlight:
WSU Extension/Spokane County serves the Russian community
Spokane
County has a Russian speaking community of approximately 20,000,
forty percent of whom are children, and WSU Extension carries out
a number of programs designed specifically to meet this community’s
needs. Their bi-lingual program assistant, Tatyana Bistrevsky,
has translated a number of educational materials into Russian, and
edits a monthly Russian-language newsletter, as well. This
newsletter, “The Window of Knowledge,” has a circulation
of 1,500, and is distributed to all the local Slavic churches, markets,
ESL departments, libraries, community centers and schools.
Extension programs delivered in Russian include:
- Food Sense and Diabetes Education
- 4-H Youth Development
- Master Gardeners
- Cultivating Community Strengths Together (CCST)
Among the most noteworthy actions have been:
- The formation of four new 4-H clubs with a total of 44 new members. One
group of 4-H youth received training in video production and has
produced the first Russian language program to be aired on community
television in Spokane.
- Character Counts! programs for Russian speaking youth and adults
- Computer classes for Russian speaking adults and youth, with
118 graduates of beginning and advanced computer skills courses
to date
- FAFSA Workshops to help parents and students fill out the FAFSA
forms required to apply for financial aid at colleges and universities
- Medicare information workshops to help Russian-speaking seniors
make informed choices regarding new Medicare options
- Nutrition, Diabetes Education, and Food Safety classes
- Fish Safety Cleaning Workshops – Educating the Slavic community
about safely using the fish caught in Spokane area rivers that
may contain PCB and heavy metals.
- Health Fairs / Resource Fair
- Cooking Classes for Adults, 4-H Youth, Food Bank constituents,
- Workshops on Leadership, Communication and Social Skills for
Russian community youth and adults, and on Russian culture for
social workers and state employees. Most notably, a recent exhibit
on Russian Culture at the North West Museum of Arts and Culture. Staff
and volunteers staffed the displays that included making traditional
Russian foods.
The enthusiastic participation of the Russian community in these
programs can be directly linked to the fact that they are offered
in Russian and there is a bi-lingual staff member working with the
community to assess their needs and help design Extension’s
response.
ANNUAL COUNTY SALARY SUPPORT AND MOA’S
Reminder: The annual
county salary support form for FY2006 is
now due. We understand that some counties may not
have contract negotiations with counties completed until late December;
however the absolute deadline for WSU payroll changes is January
3, 2006. Also, County Memorandums of
Agreement are due January 1st. Please try to honor
this deadline. Westside districts should send MOAs to Joan
Root (509-335-2885). Eastside districts should send MOAs
to Esther Tate (509-335-6885). Please feel free to contact
either one of them if you have questions.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE eXtension FAQ EFFORT
As it should be, populating the Frequently Asked Questions component
of eXtension falls primarily to the Extension educators, agents,
and specialists who typically get and respond to those questions.
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 FAQs that we respond to on a continual basis as agents,
educators 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. Please
take the time to submit several of your own FAQs. Point your
Web browser at http://faq.extension.org. Just
below the Login and Password fields you will 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 will
send you an email message that contains your assigned password.
CAHNRS UPDATE JANUARY 11
Mark your calendars now for the College
of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) Update
videostream scheculed to take place on January 11, from 9:30 to 10:30
am.
PERSONNEL
Sharon Collman Returns to WSU Extension
Sharon Collman assumed
an interim faculty assignment (County Extension Educator, E-4) in
the Snohomish County Extension office on December 1. Sharon
will lead the horticulture education program, including production
and marketing assistance, and pest management assistance to the nursery
and landscape industries in Snohomish and Skagit Counties. Sharon
was an Extension faculty in King and Snohomish Counties from 1974
to 1989 and was directly involved in the development of the original
Master Gardener program and in Integrated Pest Management educational
programs. She was the Extension liaison to EPA in Seattle from
1989 to 1993 and from 2000 through November of 2005. Sharon
is completing her PhD work at the University of Washington College
of Forest Resources.
New Hires
Christina M. Sanders, Coordinator Division of Governmental Studies
and Services
Effective: December 1, 2005, 100% Extension, Administrative
Professional
Degree: M.P.A.
Linda Nuenzig, Extension Coordinator, Snohomish County
Effective:
December 7, 2005, 100% Extension Grant, Administrative
Professional
Degree: A.A.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
We wish you and yours happy holidays and best wishes
for the New Year!
The following is the planned time off for staff in the Extension
Dean and Director’s Office. There will be someone here every
day to answer your calls and questions (the university is officially
closed Dec. 23, 26, and Jan. 2). However, we will not be fully staffed
so we can spend time with family and friends. For grant writing,
Esther Tate will be out December 29 - 30, Dorothy Heitter will be
out December 22-27, and Joan Root will be out December 21 (afternoon)
and December 22. Kathy Stilwell will be out December 27-30.
Mary Hoffman will be out December 21-27.
The holiday schedules for County Extension and other Extension program
offices off campus can be seen on the web at: http://www.wsu.edu/~forms/PDF/BPPM/60-76-3-4.pdf.
SCHEDULE
Linda will be in Pullman December 19-22 and December 27-30.
Ed will be in Spokane December 19, 21 – 22, in Davenport on
December 20, and on annual leave December 27-30.
Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Dean and Director
Washington State University Extension
411 Hulbert Hall, PO Box 646230
Pullman, WA 99164-6230
509-335-2933 Office
509-335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
509-335-2926 FAX
lkfox@wsu.edu |
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