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IN THIS ISSUE... ...Word from the
Associate Director - Extension and Applied Research WORD FROM THE
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH What: Program Focus Team Meetings Program Focus Team meetings are being held in lieu of any Spring Planning Conference. The purpose of these meetings will be to plan and organize subject matter in-service education training needs and opportunities for each area of program focus. The basis of planning will be to create opportunities for Extension agents to build core competencies in the area of program focus. Additionally, to look at the various other forms of training that should be made available to provide for program rollout and/or updates. Through such planning, a system catalog of subject matter in-service education training offerings will begin to be created. This initial planning meeting will begin to build the foundation for subject matter training that will both create opportunities to increase subject matter competency and improve the delivery of high quality, relevant educational programs for the people of Kansas. --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu
KANELECT AND
HEALTH INSURANCE OPEN ENROLLMENT ENDS ON OCTOBER 31 KanElect participation in 2006 DOES NOT carry forward to 2007. To participate in 2007, you must enroll on-line, via the State of Kansas Open Enrollment Program at http://www.kansas.gov/employee . Employees desiring to enroll in a health insurance plan or make changes to their current plan also need to enroll via the above website. Employees not wanting to make changes to their health insurance do not need to enroll on-line. Questions can be directed to the Division of Human Resources at 785-532-6277. --Division of Human Resources
TECHWEB SITE
OFFERS HELPFUL COMPUTER TIPS I recommend bookmarking this site - http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/techweb/ . Another good source for computer information is the TechBytes technology series. This week, their program is "Computer Security." You can watch it live over the Internet this Friday, October 27, at 1:15 p.m. For more details, go to the TechBytes site at http://www.k-state.edu/techbytes/ . For further information, contact Gerry Snyder, gsnyder@ksu.edu . --Gerry Snyder
BLAST INTO THE
FUTURE TRAINING - NOVEMBER 8-9 Hope you didn't forget to the sign up for this dynamic training! For more information, go to www.kansas4h.org . --Audrey Maxwell amaxwell@ksu.edu
OUTCOMES, IMPACTS AND SUCCESS STORIES Although managing after a wildfire was not a planned focus area, when Harvey County began experiencing wildfires, it quickly became a need for Extension to address. With producers having complete or partial loss of pasture and fencing destroyed with the approach of grazing season, most producers had a rather negative outlook. Extension helped turn this "situation" into an opportunity. Because fencing needed to be replaced, producers were encouraged to consider rotational grazing with smaller paddocks designed according to availability of forages and water. They developed a working relationship with a land management specialist that many did not know they had access to. When it did rain and the forage began to come back, producers were astounded at the improved quality! The area burned was not one that typically practiced controlled burns as a management tool. The most important success may be the recognition that K-State Research and Extension can be counted on to provide the knowledge base and education needed in challenging times.
IT'S YOUR LIBRARY -
PART 3 - INTERLIBRARY SERVICES Just go to the library home page and click on the "Request an Interlibrary Loan," http://www.lib.ksu.edu/illiad , line near the center of the page to go to the ILLiad screen. Never used ILLiad before? Follow the link for first time users to create an account; it only takes a few minutes. Note that the ILLiad ID and password are not your K-State eID and password. Once you have an account, you can log in to request that K-State Libraries borrow an article, book chapter, paper from a conference proceeding or other item. Most of these are scanned and delivered to you online. Interlibrary Services will also scan articles and book chapters (basically, anything under 50 pages) and deliver them to you using the ILLiad system. So, if you find that the Libraries has the book or journal that you need on the shelf, fill out the ILLiad form. Need the whole book or some other loanable item, like a film, dissertation or map? Whether K-State Libraries owns it or not, fill out the ILLiad form and Interlibrary Services will either retrieve it off of our shelves or borrow it from another library and mail it to you. See the Interlibrary Services for Remote Users page for all of the details, http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/ils/remoteusers.html , or read the ILLiad FAQ, https://ksu.hosts.atlas-sys.com/illiad/FAQ.html . Next time we’ll talk about the magic Get It button that streamlines the process of getting your hands on your research. --Sara Kearns, Libraries Instruction Coordinator; and Sandy Procter procter@humec.ksu.edu
DIVERSITY
OFFICE UPDATE The DPO and K-State MANRRS chapters are also in the process of developing two predominant Junior MANRRS chapters. One is located in Ogden, KS and the other in Kansas City, KS. This program is designed to increase Middle school and High school students' awareness of the opportunities that are available to them in the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Science fields at a young age. As a reminder, the request for proposals for the 2007 Tilford Incentive Grants, "Infusing and Assessing the Tilford Multicultural Competencies in the Academic Curricula at Kansas State University," are due on November 13, 2006. This opportunity is for instructional staff (tenured, tenure-track and instructors). Proposals are invited to create or enhance already existing strategies to infuse and assess the Tilford multicultural competencies within the students' educational experience. We look forward to many proposals from the College of Agriculture to be submitted. If you have questions, please contact your Assistant Dean for Diversity, Dr. Zelia Wiley. Finally, please join us as we welcome James Millsap, sophomore, International Agribusiness Finance major from Kansas City; and Melissa Becking, first year Graduate student, in College Student Personnel Work from Lincoln, NE; as they work in the DPO this fall. For more information, you may contact Dr. Zelia Wiley, Assistant Dean for Diversity, at zwh@ksu.edu or 785-532-5793. --Zelia Wiley
REMINDER...
--Pam Frazey pfrazey@ksu.edu
VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS. Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@ksu.edu . DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 1, 2006, THROUGH NOVEMBER 7, 2006: Wednesday, November 1 Thursday, November 2 Saturday, November 4, through Sunday, November 5
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