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Vol. 9, No. 12 February 4, 2003
IN THIS ISSUE...
...Program
Justification Statements -- Your Chance to Comment
...Five Year Plan
...Spring Action Conference, March 25 - 26, 2003
...Terry Mannell Retirement Reception
...Dr. H. Leroy Brooks has Retired
...Kansas PRIDE Newsletter on PRIDE Web Site
...Kansas Farm Service Agency (FSA) Requesting
Assistance
...A New Look for the K-State Research and Extension
Web Site
...Final Locations, Dates, and Registration Information
for Learning About Arthritis Management and Programming
...KFAC Teacher Summer Courses
...Master Schedule
...Tuesday
Letter Archives
PROGRAM
JUSTIFICATION STATEMENTS -- YOUR CHANCE TO COMMENT
Faculty: We thank you for your responses to Survey 1 of Faculty
Perceptions of Program Prioritization Criteria. 299 people responded.
You may view the full document and responses at http://intranet.oznet.ksu.edu/prioritize
.
Our next request is that you comment on
any of the draft two-page program justification statements developed
using the program criteria reviewed in Survey 1. Please go to http://intranet.oznet.ksu.edu/prioritize
, locate any program(s) of interest, and provide comments or
recommendations about any of the programs, including comments on the
priority level (essential, very important, or important) of the
programs. Please complete your responses by February 7, 2003.
The authors of the draft justification
statements will then use your suggestions to revise each statement. The
revised drafts will again be posted to an intranet site later in
February for further administrator and faculty comment. --C. Michael
Smith msmith@oznet.ksu.edu ,
and Mike Bradshaw mbradsha@oznet.ksu.edu
FIVE YEAR PLAN
Progress
If you have not visited the 5-yr plan web site recently, you might
want to stop by and offer comments. Draft strategy statements are being
posted that reflect the work of more people becoming involved in the
process. Leaders of the Long-Term Intended Outcome (LTIO) Teams are
inviting colleagues known to be interested in these topics to help with
developing the 1 1/2 page descriptive summaries for each of the three to
five (sometimes more) draft strategies accompanying each LTIO. As of
this writing, first draft strategies for LTIOs 5, 8, 10, 11, and 12 had
been posted within our Intranet 5-yr plan web site. More should be added
in the near future. Please volunteer your ideas or contribute to the
writing if you are asked to serve on one of these teams. The products of
this effort will be shared internally and externally with constituent
groups to gather key feedback. --Randy Higgins, rhiggins@oznet.ksu.edu
; Forrest Chumley, fchumley@oznet.ksu.edu
; Larry Erpelding, lerpeldi@oznet.ksu.edu
Additional Exposure
The five-year plan feedback sheet was distributed to agents, county
board chairs, administrators, and others attending the five Area
Partnership meetings that took place during the last two weeks as we
traveled around the state. Randy Higgins presented a brief --- why we're
engaged in this process/how you can have input --- commentary as those
in the audience reviewed some of our work to date. Marie Blythe's e-mail
address was included on the feedback form along with the original
mission statement, our five draft CMTs, and our 12 LTIOs (16 when the
COAs teaching outcomes are counted). Thus, our message has reached an
additional group of Kansans. Several attendees shared comments that
indicate we are following a useful path. Those comments followed Marc
Johnson's "State of the Partnership -- Discovering Our
Future," and Daryl Buchholz's "Funds Development,"
(revenue generation, etc) messages. –Randy Higgins rhiggins@oznet.ksu.edu
SPRING ACTION
CONFERENCE, MARCH 25 - 26, 2003
Spring Action Conference will be held in
Salina on March 25 - 26. We will begin the first day at 10:30 a.m. and
end at 1:30 p.m. the second day. A detailed agenda and registration will
follow soon.
A block of rooms has been held at the
Salina Holidome, 1616 West Crawford for the nights of March 24 and 25.
Please make your reservations by calling 785-823-1739 and identify the
group as: KSU Research and Extension. All reservations must be
made by February 28, 2003. After this date, they will release our block
of rooms.
Rooms can be guaranteed for late arrival
to your credit card or by advance deposit. Any guaranteed reservations
not cancelled before 4 p.m. will be billed to the credit card or against
the advance deposit. --Paula Peters peters@humec.ksu.edu
TERRY MANNELL
RETIREMENT RECEPTION
Please join us as we celebrate Terry Mannell's retirement as the Ellis
County Horticultural Agent, Thursday, March 27, 2003, Extension Office
Meeting Room, 601 Main Street, Hays, KS, 3 - 7 p.m. A book of memories
is being created for Terry, and everyone is welcome to contribute.
Letters, cards and notes can be sent to Stacy Campbell, Ellis County
Extension Office, 601 Main, Hays, KS. 67601.
Terry started his career in Ellis County
as a 4-H Agent and served in that position for one year. Since that time
he has served as the Horticultural agent for over 23 years. --Stacy
Campbell scampbel@oznet.ksu.edu
DR. H. LEROY BROOKS
HAS RETIRED
Leroy Brooks, Professor, Extension Specialist, Insecticides and
Pesticidal Safety, Entomology Department, has retired, effective
February 1, 2003. Leroy started his career as a cotton scout in Arkansas
in 1958 while going to school at the University of Arkansas. After a
short stint as a vocational agricultural instructor and as an
entomologist with a chemical company, he came to K-State as a graduate
research assistant in 1963 to work on his Ph.D. In 1965 he was hired on
as an instructor in the Cooperative Extension Service. --Phil Sloderbeck
psloderb@oznet.ksu.edu and
Sonny Ramaswamy sramaswa@oznet.ksu.edu
KANSAS PRIDE
NEWSLETTER ON PRIDE WEB SITE
The Kansas PRIDE Newsletter for January 2003 is on the PRIDE web site.
To view go to: http://www.kansasprideprogram.ksu.edu/PRIDE/newsletters.htm
. --Dan Kahl dkahl@oznet.ksu.edu
KANSAS FARM
SERVICE AGENCY (FSA) REQUESTING ASSISTANCE
Trish Halstead, USDA Kansas Farm Service Agency, is requesting your
assistance to notify all Kansas farmers and ranchers of the April 1
deadline to select acreage bases and crop yields for the Direct and
Counter-Cyclical Program.
There are only two more months until the
April 1 deadline. Currently there are still an estimated 67,584 of the
total 112,742 farms in Kansas that have not selected their bases and
yields. The bases and yields will be effective through 2007 crop year,
so this is a very important decision for Kansas landowners. --Steven
Graham sgraham@oznet.ksu.edu
A NEW LOOK FOR THE
K-STATE RESEARCH AND EXTENSION WEB SITE
We are just weeks away from publicly introducing the redesigned
K-State Research and Extension Web site, but first we wanted to give you
another opportunity to provide comments or suggestions. To preview the
new site, go to http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/welcomeMain.asp
or go to http://www.oznet.ksu.edu
and click on the "Sneak Preview" towards the bottom of the
middle column. Please take a few minutes to look at the new site and
provide comments or suggestions by clicking on "Feedback" in
the left column.
If you'd like to nominate your own Web
page as a featured site, click on "Feedback" in the left
column. Provide us your URL and contact information, and we will get
back to you within the week regarding your site.
Thanks in advance for your feedback. We
plan on implementing this new design as the K-State Research and
Extension Web site on March 1, 2003. --Linda Sleichter lsleicht@oznet.ksu.edu
FINAL LOCATIONS,
DATES, AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR LEARNING ABOUT ARTHRITIS
MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAMMING
The locations, dates, and registration information have been finalized
for the program on Arthritis Management and Programming that targets
agents with Food, Nutrition, Health and Safety responsibilities and, if
they desire, their programming collaborators. The dates are: (1)
Northeast Area: Monday, March 3; (2) Southeast area: Thursday, March 13;
(3) Southwest Area: Wednesday, April 2; and (4) Northwest Area: Tuesday,
April 22. Specific program times, locations, and registration
information can be found at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition/arthritis.htm
. Agents and their programming collaborators are invited to
attend the Arthritis Management and Programming location that best fits
their schedule. For further inquiries, contact Nancy Gyurcsik, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, Office of Community Health and Department of
Kinesiology, Telephone: 785-532-0703; E-mail: gyurcsik@ksu.edu
KFAC TEACHER SUMMER
COURSES
Time to spread the word about Kansas Foundation for Agriculture in
the Classroom (KFAC) teacher summer courses. Remember, the teacher only
pays the application fee and KFAC finds scholarships for the tuition!
Four courses are available:
Three hour courses---
Manhattan--June 16-21
Kansas City--July 14-19
One hour biotech courses--
Advanced--Manhattan--July 21-22
Beginning--Garden City--July 24-25
Find an application, due by April 15, at:
www.ksagclassroom.org . Click
on Teacher Resources, Summer Courses, Application!
Check it out today, before your favorite
class fills up!! --Jim Adams jadams@oznet.ksu.edu
VIEW
THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS .
Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@oznet.ksu.edu
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DATES TAKEN FROM THE
MASTER SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY 12, 2003, THROUGH FEBRUARY 18, 2003:
Wednesday, February 12
.... Sheep School, Russell/RS and surrounding area, NW, 7:00 p.m.,
Cliff Spaeth cspaeth@oznet.ksu.edu
Thursday, February 13
.... Agronomy Institute, Labette, Multi-county, SE, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Sheep School, Beloit/Mitchell and surrounding area, NW,
6:30 p.m., Cliff Spaeth cspaeth@oznet.ksu.edu
Friday, February 14
.... Agronomy Day, Franklin, Multi-county, SE, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Coffee Shop Agronomy, Kinsley/ED, Single county, SW,
Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu
Tuesday, February 18
.... Alfalfa Seminar, Montgomery, SE Area, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Sheep School, Seneca/NM and surrounding area, NE, 7:00
p.m., Cliff Spaeth cspaeth@oznet.ksu.edu
Tuesday, February 18,
through Wednesday, February 19
.... Advanced Nutrient Management, Salina, Statewide, 8:00 a.m. -
5:00 p.m., Dale Leikam dleikam@ksu.edu
.... ServSafe 2003, Wichita/SG, Statewide, 8:30 a.m., Karen
Penner kpenner@oznet.ksu.edu.
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