2008 PSD Funding
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5. List 2008 collaborative activities and funding sources
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Arkansas- - In addition to collaborative efforts with University of Arkansas Extension program subject matter faculty and academic faculty of the Agricultural and Extension Education Department at the UA-Fayetteville campus and the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries at UAPB, PSD faculty members are currently involved in the following multi-state and national collaborative activities:
- - Online course, “Effective Online Course Design”, collaboration with Susanna Coppernoll, Texas AgriLife Extension
- - Rich Poling has been a member of the eXtension Financial Security for All Community of Practice and serves on the Evaluation Team for that CoP.
- - Allisen Penn served on the SEAL planning committee. She has also been on the Empowering Volunteers writing team, which is charged with developing three lessons for the 2008 SEAL curriculum and for presenting the lessons during the concurrent sessions.
- - UofA PSD Faculty collaborated with other southern region Extension program and staff development professionals to conduct the Southern Region Program and Staff Development Conference Session “Using Learning Technology to Train Extension Personnel.”
- - Karen Ballard continues to work with CES plant pathologists, and breeders from six states (Missouri, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, & Texas) to evaluate the impact of the RiceCAP on breeder’s acceptance and use of molecular methods in their varietal development efforts.
- - Karen Ballard is co-chairing the National Integrated Reporting and Evaluation Online System Workgroup with Dr. Helen Chipman, National Program Leader, Food and Nutrition Education, CSREES, USDA.
- Continue to use Auburn University Human Resources to provide training via video and web conferencing for Legal Foundations which is a series of sessions on topics like interviewing, employee discipine, harrassment, fair labor standards, family medical leave act, and Americans with Disabilities Act
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- Paul Warner is chair of the Excellence in Extension Implementation Team (Scott Cummings is also a member.). ECOP has charged the group with developing and implementing a national database system for measures of excellence. Forty-four institutions have entered their 2008 data. Efforts are underway to encourage others to participate. The emphasis of the group has now shifted to the development of report templates and the refinement of the measures for 2009. This effort started with a work group and white paper of the Southern Region Program and Staff Development Committee.
- Debra Davis has been working with the National eXtension Professional Development Steering Committee to identify professional development faculty in the Extension System. This information will be used to create collaborative efforts in the professional development arena within eXtension and to begin to build an Extension program and staff development community.
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- Funding for POD now comes from all three functions of the college, while Extension is still significantly the larger source. We also are now receiving monies through our leadership programs from a number of larger funding sources.
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- The collaboration agreements and other funding sources are included in the reports submitted by the program leaders in each of their committees.
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- Joseph Doanldson served as a consultant to Drs. Dena Wise and Ann Berry in planning the evaluation component for the "Money Crunch" [1] financial management program. The program, when fully-funded, will teach young consumers to save money and reduce debt. UT Extension, University of Kentucky, Kansas State University and University of Florida are finalists for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Grant, a $500,000 proposal.
Tennessee was selected from 40 eligible states for a five-year Centers for Disease Control grant to help arthritis patients self-manage their disease. UT Extension's Arthritis Education Program educates people in self-care such as exercise and coping strategies. The UT Extension health specialist, Dr. Bobbi Clarke, attributes this accomplishment to the statewide planning and reporting capabilities of SUPER (System for University Planning, Evaluation and Reporting). Dr. Clarke shares that before SUPER deployment, she did not have concrete data to build the case with funders that UT Extension programs are a solid investment in people and solutions. From the 40 states, CDC named 17 finalists, and one winner! UT Extension's partners, Tennessee Department of Health and Arthritis Foundation, were also impressed with the statewide reporting capabilities of SUPER. Tennesseans with arthritis will be the big winners with this $500,000 award to provide programs to address their unique educational needs.
UT Extension is pleased to contribute to the How Farmers Learn – Improving Sustainable Agriculture Education project. Joseph Donaldson is working with Nancy Franz of Virginia Tech on year two of this multi-state project to determine farmer learning preferences and recommend professional development needed by Extension agents and specialists across the Southern Region. (Funded by USDA-CSREES Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education; $205,000)
- We will continue to be engaged and find new areas of collaboration in Texas, the region, and nationally. In addition, we continue to seek new areas of funding that can support the mission of our unit and agency.
- Research funding comes from Southern SARE for the How Farmers Learn project. In year two of this project we are collaborating with Extension colleagues in Tennessee and Louisiana to collect, analyze, and report data. Research support for the camp project comes from the American Camp Association. The Community DECISIONS project includes a collaboration with a Center at the University of Virginia. As topical interest group officers for the American Evaluation Association, Nancy and Heather have strong collaborations with members acroos the group.
