The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
(Vol. 20 No. 22)
IN THIS ISSUE...
WORD FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH
This week local Extension board leaders from our State Extension Advisory Council, Extension Professional Association delegates, and 4-Hers are in Washington DC. The Advisory Council and Extension professional association delegates are participating in the National Public Issues Leadership Development conference. The 4-Hers are delegates to National 4-H Conference. We will all be coming together on Wednesday morning to visit each of our Congressional and Senate offices, talking about how K-State Research and Extension is making an impact through programs and engagement across Kansas. We are carrying with us a "Making an Impact" report that we will leave in each Congressional office. You can read that document by following this link. This is our opportunity to express our thanks to the Senators and Representatives for their work in supporting our work from the Federal level, and to encourage continuing that support because of the value we are providing to the citizens across Kansas with those federal dollars.
Following are the individuals who are in the delegation this year:
State Extension Advisory Council Members:
Gary Thompson, Quenemo, Frontier District
Ken Moldenhauer, Valley Center, Sedgwick County
Rhonda Gaede, Hoxie, Twin Creeks District
Tatum Kimzey, Catherine, Ellis County
Extension Professional Associations:
Cindy Evans, Shawnee County Extension FCS Agent
Beth Drescher, Sedgwick County 4-H Youth
Development Agent
Jennifer Wilson, Riley County Extension Director
John Forshee, River Valley Extension District
Director
National 4-H Conference Attendees:
Ben Yarnell, Erie, Southwind District
Kaci Foraker, Burrton, Sedgwick County
Sam Davis, Madison, Greenwood County
Shaylee Arpin, Salina, Central Kansas District
Anna Muir, Phillips-Rooks District Extension Agent, Chaperone to the Conference Attendees
Extension Administration:
Daryl Buchholz, Associate Director
Gregg Hadley, Assistant Director
Pam Van Horn, 4-H Youth Development will also be in attendance as President of the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents.
My thanks to each of them for participating in these professional development experiences, and for delivering the important message of the public value that comes through the federal investment in Cooperative Extension! Have a great week. --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu
OFFICE 365 DELETED ITEMS AND JUNK MAIL RETENTION SETTINGS - EFFECTIVE APRIL 11
In case you didn’t see it, Information Technology Services sent out this notice in K-State Today on Wednesday, April 2.
Office 365 retention settings will be activated on the evening of Friday, April 11. These retention settings govern the automatic management of emails that have been moved to the deleted items folder and junk email folder. A couple of things to note: - Items will be automatically removed from your deleted items folder after 30 days. You can recover those removed items for up to 14 days after their removal. See the Knowledge Base article on how to restore deleted items.
- Items will be automatically removed from your junk email folder after 30 days.
More information about the retention settings, tags and how they operate can be found at Microsoft's Retention Settings Web page.
What will happen is every 30 days, your deleted items and junk mail folders will be cleaned out. You can recover emails for 14 days after deletion.
For Webmail, right click on the deleted items folder and choose recover deleted items. Place a check mark next to the emails you wish to recover, and left click recover in the lower left of the deleted items window.
In the Outlook desktop client, right click on the deleted items folder and choose recover deleted items. Hold down the CTRL key and left click on each message you wish to recover in the recover deleted items list that appears. Click the recover button in the upper left hand corner. Recovered items should return to the inbox.
If you have been using the deleted items folder for an archive, you’ll want to move any messages you wish to keep to another folder in your email before April 11.
If you have any questions, please contact KSRE tech support at 785-532-6270 or ksresupport@ksu.edu, or the Campus helpdesk at 785-532-7722, 1-800-865-6143, or helpdesk@ksu.edu. --Joe Lear learj@ksu.edu
DIVERSITY PROGRAMS OFFICE UPDATE
The College of Agriculture’s Diversity Programs Office (DPO) would like to share some of the events that will take place as the month of April begins:
- MANRRS Executive Board Nominations were Wednesday, April 2. Elections will take place Wednesday, April 16 in Waters 137.
- On Saturday, April 5 there was a Multicultural Student Reception that took place in the K-State Union during Open House. There were about 100 students and their parents who were able to enjoy refreshments and speakers such as Dr. Pat Bosco, Dr. Myra Gordon and student leaders.
- 2014 MANRRS week will take place in April 21-25. Navigating Difference Training registration is still open for class VI during May 21-22 located in Hays, KS.
- Saturday, April 12 College for a Day. Kansas State University will have its first Wildcat Step Show, featuring Poize hip hop dance team IFC/PHC steppers, K-State faculty and staff. In collaboration, Kansas State University’s MANRRS chapter will be participating and fundraising at the Step Show.
The Diversity Programs Office (DPO) would also like to congratulate Dr. Zelia Wiley, Assistant Dean for Diversity Programs Office and MANRRS Chapter Advisor, for winning Advisor of the Year at the National MANRRS Conference that took place in Birmingham, AL on March 27-30. Taneysha Howard, MANRRS Executive Board Member, won the title of the 2015 National Conference Theme Contest “Thirty Years of Triumph: Branching Out and Excelling to Greater Heights.” Taneysha is a junior in Agriculture Communications and Journalism. This year during the 29th Annual MANRRS National Conference, the K-State MANRRS Chapter included a 13 student member delegation, along with our advisors Dr. Zelia Wiley, Dr. Derris Burnett and our Jr. MANRRS Advisor, Curtis Pitts.
Please continue to look for more diversity events as we continue to advertise. We appreciate your support. For more information about upcoming events or to collaborate with the DPO, please call 785-532-5793 or contact Dr. Zelia Wiley, Assistant Dean of Diversity, zwiley@ksu.edu. --Zelia Wiley
ANNOUNCING THE NEW NORTH CENTRAL REGION WATER NETWORK
I am excited to announce the launch of the new North Central Region Water Network – a 12-state collaboration between Extension water resource professionals and university, federal, state, NGO and industry partners. This is a new network, but builds on the old USDA-funded work in the Heartland Water Project. I am serving on the executive committee for the new network and I look forward to this new collaboration.
With the full support from the Extension Directors in the North Central Region, this network seeks to:- Increase connectivity and learning among university professionals and our partners engaged in water-related research, education, and management.
- Strengthen the resource base available for Extension education. Extension provides a critical bridge between applied research and the people, organizations, and communities that can use that research to strengthen decision-making.
- Generate measurable environmental and social impacts in the short and long-term.
We hope you will take some time in the near future to get to know the network better. Please visit the website, contribute to the blog, and participate in our upcoming webinar series. You may also want to join the mailing list for the latest news about the network.
If you have questions, please contact me. --Dan Devlin ddevlin@ksu.edu
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