Dr. Stanley R. Johnson
Iowa State University

Biography:

Stanley R. Johnson became Vice Provost for University Extension at Iowa State University (ISU) in 1996. As Vice Provost for Extension, he is responsible for nearly a $60 million budget and a full- and part-time faculty and staff of more than 1,250. He was appointed as the Vice Provost for Extension to undertake a major restructuring of Extension at ISU.

Since 1996, Extension has adapted its administrative structure and "culture." Services are supplied on a "project" basis. Projects are defined with substantial constituent input. These projects are also developed jointly with campus faculty and staff and field professionals, and provide education and information services. The projects incorporate joint research and education activities as well as traditional education and information responsibilities of Extension.

Administratively, Extension has become more entrepreneurial, decentralized, responsive to local priorities and incorporated mechanisms to provide for effective feedback to the University teaching and research programs. A state-wide association of the elected county councils has been organized and is functioning. Greater emphasis and stronger incentives have been applied for grant and contract funding. The result has been to significantly expand Extension programming and the linkages to the on-campus strengths of ISU.

Prior to his appointment as Vice Provost for Extension, Stanley Johnson was the Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). CARD has an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary public policy research program. Areas of emphasis include agricultural and trade policy, food and nutrition policy, rural and economic development policy, and environmental and natural resource policy.

Stanley Johnson is a Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture, a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Member of the Former Soviet Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Russian Academy of Agricultural Science and the Ukraine Agricultural Academy of Science, Honorary Professor of the Center for Rural Development Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Professor of the Ukrainian State Agricultural University, received the Wilton Park International Service Award, and received the International Honor Award, Office of International Cooperation and Development, United States Department of Agriculture.

Johnson received the B.A. degree from Western Illinois University, the M.S. degree from Texas Technological College in Lubbock, and the Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, College Station.