The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service

  
Vol. 10, No. 47   October 5, 2004

IN THIS ISSUE...

...Word from the Associate Director - Extension and Applied Research
...Why Come to PRIDE Day on November 6?
...Grassroots Community Development Workshop
...4HCCS Revisions for 2006 Need Your Input!!!
...Order Form Duplication
...Master Schedule

...Tuesday Letter Archives

WORD FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH
Update on Strategic Planning process for CES
We've added some things to the website. You can access it at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/strategic_planning/ , or at our home page, click on "Staff Corner," then on "Extension Strategic Planning."

We've added the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats analysis done by the task force back on August 24.  With it is a feedback opportunity for you to let the task force know if they have captured the most important SWOTs of the Extension system in Kansas.  We have the SWOT set up with the more prominent/frequent messages summarized through the links along the left side of that webpage, and then the opportunity to look at the full list of all input received.  If you have feedback on any of the process, please submit it through the website!

Next steps will be in asking the task force to formulate a picture of what Extension must look like in order to be relevant, sustainable, and offer quality programming for the long haul. We'll be looking at the SWOT analysis to help identify those things that must be preserved and those things that must change to keep Extension valued and vital to Kansas citizens.

From that process, we will ask the task force to develop recommendations focused around structure and staffing, resource development, information development and dissemination, and marketing and constituency development. Those recommendations will become the framework of the strategic plan for Kansas CES in achieving its mission within the broader mission of K-State Research and Extension and the Land-Grant University.  --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@oznet.ksu.edu 

WHY COME TO PRIDE DAY ON NOVEMBER 6?
The Kansas PRIDE program is a partnership between K-State Research and Extension and the Kansas Department of Commerce. November 6, 2004 is the annual PRIDE Day Conference at the Salina Holiday Inn. I invite Extension Professionals to attend to:

- Learn more about Community Development
- Meet representatives from Federal, State, and Business organizations that have community development resources
- Consider new ways to engage youth in community improvement
- Have Fun
- Celebrate the success of communities in your area!
- Enjoy the Banquet
- Hear motivational speakers
- Network! Network! Network!
- Meet friends
- Improve communication in the communities where you serve
- Consider community in new ways
- Strengthen your ties with local citizens
- Get out of mowing the yard!
- There are a million good reasons to come!

Conference Registration materials are now available at: http://www.kansasprideprogram.ksu.edu/PRIDE%20Day%202004.pdf . For more information, please contact Dan Kahl, dkahl@oznet.ksu.edu . --Dan Kahl

GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
November 15-18, 2004. Junction City, Kansas

The Grassroots Community Development Workshop is a foundational training for everyone who is interested in community and economic development. Offered by the USDA Rural Development office and the Kansas Rural Development Council to train community development professionals, an invitation to K-State Research and Extension has been  made for a limited number of participants. The training is free, but participants will need to pay for their housing and meal expenses. Interested? Contact Dan Kahl, dkahl@oznet.ksu.edu , by October 29, 2004. --Dan Kahl

4HCCS REVISIONS FOR 2006 NEED YOUR INPUT!!!
The following curricula will be revised in 2006: Bicycle, Computer, Dairy Goat, Moving Ahead and Sheep.

Please go to www.n4hccs.org and click on 2006 Product Revision Surveys; then select the curriculum you'd like to give feedback on. You will be linked to an online Zoomerang survey instrument. 

Thanks for helping us continually improve the CCS curricula!  --Jim Adams jadams@oznet.ksu.edu 

ORDER FORM DUPLICATION
Please note that orders for the publication MF2657 "Estimation of the Costs of Emergency Haying or Grazing of CRP" were inadvertently requested on both the October 2004 and December 2004 New Publication Order Form. We regret the error. --Nancy Zimmerli nancyz@ksu.edu 

VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS. 

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

DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR OCTOBER 13, 2004, THROUGH OCTOBER 19, 2004:

Wednesday, October 13, through Thursday, October 14
.... Pesticide Applicator Training, Hays, Statewide, 1.5 days, Sharon Dobesh sdobesh@oznet.ksu.edu

Thursday, October 14
.... NW Area Animal Science Update, Colby, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Sandy Johnson sandyj@ksu.edu

Friday, October 15, through Sunday, October 17
.... 4-H Fall Shooting Sports Certification Workshop, Wichita, KS, Statewide, Gary Gerhard ggerhard@oznet.ksu.edu

Saturday, October 16
.... Master 4-H Volunteer Training, Scott City/SC, Statewide, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Rod Buchele rbuchele@oznet.ksu.edu and Pat McNally pmcnally@oznet.ksu.edu

Tuesday, October 19
.... Marketing Plan Workshop, Topeka, Statewide, 8:30 a.m., Vincent Amanor-Boadu vincent@agecon.ksu.edu

Tuesday, October 19, through Wednesday, October 20
.... KSRE Micro Conference, Great Bend, Statewide, Denise Dias ddias@oznet.ksu.edu

Tuesday, October 19, through Thursday, October 21
.... Plant-Herbivore Interaction Workshop, El Dorado/BU, Statewide, 9:30 a.m., David Kehler dkehler@oznet.ksu.edu

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