The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service

  
Vol. 9, No. 4   December 3, 2002

IN THIS ISSUE...

...Interim Head of Department of Communications Selected
...Five Year Plan Steering Committee LTIO Update
...Mileage Rates
...Effective January 6, 2003
...Poinsettias Galore!
...Master Schedule

INTERIM HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS SELECTED
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Kris Boone has been selected as Interim Head of the Department of Communications for calendar year 2003. --Marc A. Johnson mjohnson@oznet.ksu.edu 

FIVE YEAR PLAN STEERING COMMITTEE LTIO UPDATE
Revisions to the K-State Research & Extension and to the parallel College of Agriculture Long-Term Intended Outcomes (LTIOs) discussed at the November 25, 2002, Five Year Plan Steering Committee meeting:

  1. Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
  2. Healthy Families and Communities
  3. Positive Youth Development
  4. Positive Adult Quality of Life
  5. New and Enhanced Products from Agriculture
  6. Conservation of Soil, Water, and Energy
  7. Improved Quality of Land, Air, and Water
  8. Efficient and Sustainable Cropping and Horticultural Systems
  9. Efficient and Sustainable Animal Production Systems
10. Economic Development and Management
11. Safe, Secure, High-quality Food Supply from Production to Consumption
12. Enhanced Nutritional Quality of the Food Supply

The K-State Research & Extension Steering Committee also made suggestions for combining LTIOs 11 and 12 that have not yet been acted upon.

The College of Agriculture effort would include the above K-State Research & Extension LTIOs and add the following outcomes:

13. Strong Broad and Technical Education for Undergraduate Students
14. Educate Competent Advanced Degree Graduates
15. Enhanced Educational Opportunities Through Distance Education
16. Enriched Educational Opportunities Through Enhanced Faculty Development and Teaching Resources

--Larry Erpelding lerpeldi@oznet.ksu.edu , Forrest Chumley fchumley@oznet.ksu.edu , Randy Higgins rhiggins@oznet.ksu.edu , co-chairs, plus the rest of the Five Year Plan Steering Committee

MILEAGE RATES
The November 26, 2002 edition of the Tuesday Letter said that the mileage rate for using a privately owned vehicle when a state owned vehicle was available had changed from 22 cents to 26 cents per mile.

Unfortunately that was not correct information. The mileage rate remains at 22 cents per mile. Sorry for the confusion this has caused. The information has been corrected at the K-State Research and Extension Travel Website: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/operations/travel.htm . --Stacey M. Warner swarner@oznet.ksu.edu 

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 6, 2003
Several years ago, e-mail addresses appeared as userid@oz.oznet.ksu.edu. In 1999, a decision was made to drop the "oz" from the address and have everyone use userid@oznet.ksu.edu. We have kept the oz.oznet.ksu.edu address active to give everyone time to transition to the oznet.ksu.edu address.

Effective January 6, 2003, the userid@oz.oznet.ksu.edu will no longer be valid. Please check your e-mail  client, reply to address, signature, any listserv, and local distribution lists and change the oz.oznet.ksu.edu to oznet.ksu.edu.

One simple way to check your signature and your reply to address is to send a message to yourself and observe the from address and the signature.

In Pegasus Mail, you can search for your oz.oznet.ksu.edu address to find anyone to inform about the change. To do this, close all folders. Open the folder list and select Edit, Find text from the main menu bar. Search for youruserid@oz.oznet.ksu.edu. Search in all folders and check Search message headers only. When the search is done, sort by date.

Be aware that any business cards, letterhead, or any other publications that contain the userid@oz.oznet.ksu.edu address will no longer be able to contact you at that address, these items will need to be changed. For more help contact your local support technician or e-mail support@oznet.ksu.edu. --Roger V. Terry rterry@oznet.ksu.edu 

POINSETTIAS GALORE!
K-State Floriculture, along with eight other universities, is participating in a nationwide evaluation of 25 poinsettia cultivars from five poinsettia suppliers. The plants were grown by students in Hort 570 Greenhouse Operations Management, with assistance from Lea Westervelt and her staff. A grower Field Day will be held on December 6, 2002, and the North Central Region results will be posted to the web site: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/Floriculture/Poinsettia/welcome.htm before the Christmas holiday.

As a part of this effort, we are collecting consumer preferences data on Friday, December 6, 2002, from 11:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.. If you, and/or anyone that you know, would like to fill out a quick survey which asks you to rank how appealing you find these poinsettia cultivars, drop by the main hallway of the Throckmorton Greenhouses near the 106 bay (you can't miss us!) and collect one free poinsettia for a few minutes of your time (while supplies last). --Kim Williams kwilliam@oznet.ksu.edu 

VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS . 

Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@oznet.ksu.edu .

Friday, December 6
.... Advisory Committee Meeting/KSU-SE Agricultural Research Center, Parsons/LB, SE Area, Lyle Lomas llomas@oznet.ksu.edu

Wednesday, December 11
.... SW Agronomy Agent Update, Garden City, SW Area, 9:00 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu
.... NW Agronomy Agent Update, Hoxie, NW Area, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Roger Stockton rstockto@oznet.ksu.edu
.... SE FACS Program Update/Enhancement, Garnett/AN, SE Area, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., M. Gayle Price gprice@oznet.ksu.edu

Wednesday, December 11, through Thursday, December 12
.... Soil In-depth, Lyon, Multi-county, SE, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu

Friday, December 13, through Sunday, December 15
.... Kansas Beef Expo, Hutchinson, Statewide, Todd Johnson toddj@kla.org

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