The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
(Vol. 20 No. 12)
IN THIS ISSUE...
WORD FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH
Legislative Update. Thus far, Dean and Director John Floros has testified before the
House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Agriculture Committee,
and the House Appropriations Committee. Legislators have been very cordial and seem to truly want to understand
how our funding comes together and how decisions on spending are made. We also had a few questions around
districting, i.e. how districting gets initiated and the process
required to move to a final decision and approvals. Very positive comments were made by legislators who live within Extension districts. We reminded the legislators
that districting process is spelled out under State Statutes.
As we move through the legislative session, we will continue
to provide information and any updates pertinent to actions that may affect our
budget. For now, have your Board members
and friends of Extension communicate the value and importance of a strong
Extension for Kansas with their legislators.
On the lighter side, it was great to see the estimated 1,200 4-Hers, family, volunteer leaders, and friends at the K-State vs. KU women's basketball game on this past Saturday. The 4-H influence was clearly evident in filling at least 3 sections of seats in Bramlage! Great spirit and fun was had by all!
Have a great week! --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu
DIVERSITY PROGRAMS OFFICE UPDATE
Happy New Year!
The Diversity Programs Office is ready to start the New Year! We hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday break, and are now ready to dive in to another semester. We would like to welcome our new Graduate assistants, Sogand Sabahfar and Megan Carroll. We would also like to welcome back our undergraduate assistants Tyler Warta, and Lachelle Marshall.
The College of Agriculture Diversity Programs Office, under the direction of Assistant Dean for Diversity, Dr. Zelia Wiley, and the students of the office would like to remind everyone about Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Week January 27- January 31, 2014.
On Tuesday, January 28, the College of Agriculture will sponsor its Annual Diversity Student Leaders Reception. The event will be held in the Cottonwood Room (KSU Student Union) at 1:30 pm. The speaker at the luncheon will be Mr. Eric Banks, Kansas State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Services, Salina, KS; with closing remarks by Ron Galle, Director of QA/ Food Safety Milling Division.
Below you will find a list of activities for the remainder of the week:
- Tuesday, January 28 at 3:30 p.m., the Commerce Bank Awards Reception held in the Alumni Center (Banquet Rooms A & D). The reception will honor these outstanding individuals who have done so much to advance K-State diversity, to contribute to the success of historically under-represented students, and to promote inclusion.
- Wednesday, January 29 with three events:
- 2:30 p.m., The College of Business will sponsor its 15th Annual Diversity Lecture. This year’s speaker is Chantal Veevaete, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Phillips 66. The lecture will be held in Forum Hall (KSU student union).
- 7:00 p.m., Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will sponsor their Annual MLK Memorial Program and Candlelight Vigil. The Vigil will be held in the Ballroom (KSU student union).
- Hot Chocolate Reception, sponsored by the School of Leadership Studies, this reception will happen immediately after the Vigil, in the concourse area outside of the Ballroom.
- Friday, January 31 at 2:00 p.m., the annual Laying of the Wreaths ceremony will be held at the MLK bust in front of Ahearn Field House to conclude the events of our MLK Observance Week 2014.
As you can imagine, many people have worked very hard to bring this line-up of MLK celebrations to the K-State campus. The Planning Committee is especially grateful to all the supporters of the observance week activities. We hope you will join us as often as possible for the entertainment, receptions, lectures, meals, fellowship, vigils, processional, and ceremony of laying the wreaths. Let's make the 2014 MLK Observance and Celebration a time of coming together, reaffirming our values, embracing our diversity, and strengthening inclusion as we remember that “The Dream is Still Our Beacon.” For more information, please look at the 2014 MLK Observance Week Poster which can be found at http://www.k-state.edu/diversity/2014MLKWeekPoster.pdf. Please pick up hard copies of the poster for display in your area(s) and address any questions to the Office of Diversity at 785-532-6276.
Best wishes for a productive Spring 2014 Semester as we observe Martin Luther King Jr. week in the month of January! –-Zelia Z. Wiley zwiley@ksu.edu
KSRE ADOBE CONNECT WEBINAR TRAINING: JANUARY 30 AND FEBRUARY 6
The
KSRE Adobe Connect system will save you time, travel and money! It is
a great communication tool to "Connect" to your audience via
the Internet and any mobile device. Connect is also a great way to record
and save your presentations for online
playback at anytime 24/7.
KSRE Adobe Connect is free for
KSRE and College of Agriculture to use for online meetings, research
collaboration, giving online classes and the best available tool for
online presentation "webinars."
Training is being offered during January 30 and February 6, online at 10 a.m.
This one-hour session is a
good overview for both new and experienced Connect users. No
registration is necessary. Simply go to http://connect.ksre.ksu.edu/connecttraining/ and sign-in as a guest during the training time.
For more information, visit the Technology site, www.ksre.ksu.edu/technology/, or contact Gerry Snyder, gsnyder@ksu.edu,
IET, 785-532-6270. --Gerry Snyder
FEBRUARY 1 DEADLINE FOR VIP REGISTERED VOLUNTEERS
This is a reminder that on or
before February 1, 2014, local units must submit a list of all registered
volunteers to the Department of 4-H Youth Development. The list should contain
1) all registered 4-H volunteers who have completed the VIP process, 2) have
been approved and appointed by the local Extension Board and 3) are up to
date in their renewal status (for those VIP registered in previous years).
The list must be verified by the Extension Board chair. The Extension Board does not
need to approve the list. Only the Board chair has to approve that the list of
volunteers is accurate and can be verified through Board minutes. This would
include all volunteers approved and appointed up through January 31, 2014.
An Excel
template is available by contacting Keli Yungeburg, keliy@ksu.edu. Please send the list electronically to Keli Yungeberg, keliy@ksu.edu. Upon receipt of the list,
an email confirmation will be sent to you and the area director.
If you have additional
volunteers that are still waiting for approval/appointment then you can approve
them at your upcoming February Board Meeting. After February 1, we will post
the steps for how you can prepare to manage the registered volunteers
through ACCESS. We will be able to see the progress you have made that
way.
This is a
preliminary measurement of where we are on January 31, 2014. It is not meant to
be a punitive. Local units will have until July 31, 2014 to get any
volunteers not already registered approved under the current system.
Beginning August 1, they will need to go through the revised volunteer
screening process. --Barbara Stone bjstone@ksu.edu
KANSAS OUT-OF-SCHOOL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Kansas Out-of-School
Conference will be held on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at the Sedgwick County
Extension Education Center. The audience for this conference is
out-of-school (before, after and summer) program staff and directors from
across the state of Kansas.
The conference is co-sponsored by
K-State Research and Extension, Kansas Enrichment Network and Kansas Department
of Education, and is required for all 21st Century Community
Learning Center program directors. About 190 people attended last year.
The conference coordinators seek
to offer the widest possible variety of options so that attendees will have a
lot to take back and use in their programs. We are looking for presenters
and exhibitors to share hands-on curricula and programming resources in 50
minute seminars or at free-standing booths. Our hope is that attendees will
leave the conference with all the knowledge, skill and supporting documents
they need to teach something new to their students the next day.
If there is a favorite curriculum,
activity, resource or technique that you have used successfully in your
program, please consider sharing it with others at this year’s seminars.
We encourage hands-on teaching and experiential learning at the Kansas
Out-of-School Conference. We will be glad to help you design a hands-on
seminar if you have a great idea but aren’t quite sure how to present it to others.
Here is the live link for the call
for presentations and informational booths document. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2014.
https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=N-vNZsKVO8iV%2AUl%2AUq0yUw
--Beth Drescher drescher@ksu.edu
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