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Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service |
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Vol. 15, No. 41
August 18, 2009 ...Word from the
Associate Director - Extension and Applied Research WORD FROM THE
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH Our meetings with SEAC generally include an afternoon and evening of tours and showcasing some of the K-State Research & Extension programs and facilities near the location of our meetings. This meeting in Phillipsburg we will be taking a look at some of the innovative programming in Northwest Kansas relating to communities, families, and youth. We will also tour the Dane Hansen Museum in Logan, and then hold our business meeting at the Huck Boyd Foundation conference center in Phillipsburg. Some discussions we will be having with the SEAC will include a report from the SEAC members who attended the Public Issues, Leadership Development Conference in Washington DC back in April, an overview of our progress on implementing the Extension Strategic Plan, approaches to declining budgets, discussions around organizing districts, and review of selected administrative policies. This dialog is valuable as we formulate key decisions and approaches to keeping the partnership and programs strong locally. We also provide updates from the area and assistant directors on timely topics. And, we offer a time for the SEAC members to raise issues and ideas with your Extension administrative team. The SEAC meets twice annually. We will be meeting again in February 2010 in Topeka. If you have a SEAC delegate from your District or County, I hope you will touch base with that individual and thank them for their attendance at the upcoming meeting in Phillipsburg. Have a great week! --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu
REGISTRATION FORMS POSTED FOR K-STATE RESEARCH AND EXTENSION ANNUAL
CONFERENCE The poster session on Tuesday evening provides an opportunity to share projects with your colleagues. The conference Website has information on submitting a poster or display. The submission deadline is September 15. If you plan to stay at Holiday Inn at the Campus (across the street from the K-State Student Union), please reserve your accommodations by September 22. Refer to the conference Website and Tuesday Letter for future conference updates. --Kris Boone, conference chair, kboone@ksu.edu
Irrigation Experiment Field Harvey County Experiment Field SC Kansas Experiment Field North Central Experiment Field --Troy Lynn Eckart sprite@ksu.edu
STATE 4-H
HORSE SHOW -- CHECK IN INFORMATION *Go to the Livestock Health Papers Check Point at the Fairgrounds Water Park, which is open from 5 a.m. to midnight each day.
*Go to the Stalling Office at the Fairgrounds (located at the south end of the Expo II Barn)
*Check in at the Show Check in Table (located next to the announcer's stand on the east side of the Expo Center)
*Please check in with the gate person prior to each class you are entered in. For additional information, please see the State Fair Exhibitor Handbook. Please contact Sarah Dick, sarahdd@ksu.edu , Kansas 4-H Horse Program Coordinator, with any questions. --Sarah Dick
STATE 4-H
HORSE SHOW -- VOLUNTEER REQUEST Please contact Sarah Dick, sarahdd@ksu.edu , Kansas 4-H Horse Program Coordinator, with any questions. --Sarah Dick
VOLUNTEERS
REQUESTED TO HELP IN OUR BOOTHS AT THE KANSAS STATE FAIR
We would appreciate faculty and staff from campus, area offices, counties/districts, Agronomy Fields, and Research-Extension Centers coming to the fair and working a few hours in one or both of the booths. Also, we would really appreciate agents and/or faculty, who are coming to the fair anyway, signing up to work a couple of hours in the booth before or after your activities. Days and times that our KSRE/COA fair booths still need volunteers:
If you would like to work in the K-State Research and Extension booth, please contact Katie Wedel, kwedel@ksu.edu by August 28. If you would like to work in the College of Agriculture booth, please contact Sharon Thielen, sthielen@ksu.edu by August 28. We will be in touch in late August to finalize days, times, entrance tickets, etc. Thank you. --Sharon Thielen and Steven Graham sgraham@k-state.edu
2010 NATIONAL
EXTENSION LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT-NORTH CENTRAL (NELD-NC) PROGRAM The purpose of NELD-NC is to provide current and future Extension leaders with the vision, courage, and tools to lead in a changing world. The NELD-NC program is approximately a year in length and consists of four seminars. NELD-North Central is sponsored by Cooperative Extension in the 12 North Central States and Penn State University. The 2010 program will be coordinated by Purdue University. Sessions scheduled for 2010 are: Seminar One: Leading Yourself First - January 20-23; Colorado Springs, CO Seminar Two: April 14-17, Orlando, FL Seminar Three: June 23-26, Location TBA Seminar Four: September 22-25, Location TBA Topics in previous programs have also included: Leading Others Well, Leading in a Diverse World, and Leading for the Future. Information about the current program is available at http://www.ces.purdue.edu/neld/ . If you have questions or desire additional information, call Marie Blythe at 785-532-3066, or current class members: Amy Collins, 620-549-3502, acollins@ksu.edu ; and Jana Beckman, 785-532-1440, beckman@ksu.edu . You can also view the PowerPoint, "Are you NELD material?" developed by 2008 class members: Barbara Lilyhorn and Sandy Procter. On our Website, http://tinyurl.com/2363nh , select "Are you NELD material?" Participation costs for county faculty will be fully funded through the Leadership budget; tuition for specialists will be covered through the Leadership budget and all travel-related expenses will be the responsibility of their departmental or area unit. Applicants must be able to fully participate in all four seminars. If you would like to submit an application for the 2010 program, the form is available on our Website, http://tinyurl.com/2363nh . Under Resources, select NELD-NC Application. You can also view all of the previous participants by clicking on Leadership Programs Participant Directory. Completed application forms should be returned to Marie Blythe, 104 Umberger Hall, by September 14, 2009. Selected agents/faculty members will be notified by September 28. --Marie Blythe mblythe@ksu.edu
KANSAS
SUMMIT ON HEALTH PROMOTION AND CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION
Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the lead organization, is accepting proposal abstracts for workshops, seminars and presentations up to September 15. To submit a proposal and/or find out more about Kansas' Leadership Summit on Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention click www.cultivatinghealthykansans.org/ . You can also contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu , who is on the planning committee for the Summit. --Elaine Johannes
GRANTS
AVAILABLE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
The Kansas State Department of Education will fund new or expanded after school and/or summer programs that provide ALL of the following:
Learn more about the KMSA3 grants at the Kansas Department of Education website: www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1952 . The closing deadline for this competition is 3:00 p.m., Friday, September 18, 2009. Contact Christine Macy at cmacy@ksde.org or 785-296-3287 with questions. --Elaine Johannes ejohanne@ksu.edu
FORM KSU 8-4a
AND b NOW AVAILABLE IN EXCEL VERSION
PROGRAM
FOCUS TEAM WEBSITES UPDATED The individual sites were recently updated as a result of a new KSRE data base. Check out your team site as well as the link on your name. If there is a need to correct anything please contact Dorothy Ireland, direland@ksu.edu . In addition to the team list each site also includes a description of the program focus and links to:
Some teams might also have a link to a website where additional resources are located. --Margaret Phillips margaret@ksu.edu
LOOK TO AGING
FOR FUTURE CAREERS Presentation Description What does this mean for you? The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education reports that the growth of an older population world-wide will result in an increasing need for professionals who understand the aging process and the needs of the older adult population. This growth will be evident across disciplines, not just in medicine and health care (2009). The field of gerontology is devoted to the study of aging, and K-State's Center on Aging provides gerontology courses, programs, and degrees for students on campus and online. Are you interested in learning more? Then please join us for the free presentation, Look to Aging for Future Careers, by Gayle Doll, Ph.D, Director of the K-State Center on Aging. The presentation will be broadcast live-via-webcast on October 13, 2009 from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. CT. How Do I Attend? If you are a first-time user of Adobe Connect, please test your computer for use before the date of the presentation at http://connect.ksre.ksu.edu/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm . This will resolve most connection and interface problems. To enter the presentation on October 13, simply click on the following link a few minutes before 1:30 p.m.: http://connect.ksre.ksu.edu/pftada/ . For further information, help and resources, go to the KSRE TechWeb site: www.ksre.ksu.edu/techweb . --Ethel Schneweis eschnewe@ksu.edu
MARIE’S PICKS .
. . --Youths who attended the babysitting clinic learned how to schedule jobs and run a small-scale business. They made flyers and marketed their business on community bulletin boards—good preparation for their present, as well as their future! --Twenty-three issues of "The Healthy Kids Times" nutrition newsletters for parents and children are available on the Kansas Family Nutrition Program Website, http://www.humec.ksu.edu/fnp/ , for use by Extension educators. Extension agents have communicated their appreciation for these new, easy to use, quality newsletters that tie in with the subject matter that they often present in Kansas schools. These newsletters are also being sent home with students to extend the nutrition education into the home. With the completion of the translation to Spanish, Kansas Extension educators are able to expand their nutrition programming from the classroom to the family homes where Spanish is primarily spoken. --As a result of providing radon kits, 15 households were tested to see if radon was in the home. Because of this knowledge, household occupants reduced their risk of negative health conditions such as lung cancer. --Participants in a Foods Safety program gained practical knowledge that would help them in their group homes. They improved their personal food handling skills and learned the correct temperatures for their freezers and refrigerators. --Marie Blythe mblythe@ksu.edu
IDEAS FOR
FUND RAISING PROJECTS? As you can imagine, her family is quite devastated, and not having planned for their daughter's untimely death, they had no burial insurance. If you have any idea as a fund raising project, please share with me. In the mean time, you can send condolences to the family: Rita Gisela Perez garnandfh@sbcglobal.net . Memorial Contributions may be sent
to --Debra Bolton dbolton@ksu.edu
COMMUNICATIONS MINUTE KSRE's "brand voice" applies to many forms of communication: e-mail, publishing to Website, writing letters, and more. In all cases, you should communicate in a tone that is genuine, confident and knowledgeable. Here are some tips to help you do this:
More ideas for expressing the K-State Research and Extension brand will be included in a soon-to-be-released Branding Guide, expected out this fall. --Pat Melgares melgares@ksu.edu
KSRE MASTER
CALENDAR New features! **When you use the search feature (tab on top row), you can ADD AN EXACT PHRASE OR TEXT to the search parameters. Select "Upcoming Events" to review events and professional development offerings for the next two weeks. Use "Submit Event" to enter your own event dates. Make sure that your events are listed correctly. You can edit events that you have submitted. If you need to correct previously submitted items, contact Marie Blythe. Note: Professional Development entries are automatically added to the new Master Calendar system and do not require separate/duplicate entry! --Marie Blythe mblythe@ksu.eduPlease Submit Items no later than Noon on Monday to include in the following Tuesday Letter to: tuesday@ksre.ksu.edu . Put the word "Tuesday" in the subject line. K-State Research and Extension is an equal opportunity provider and employer. |