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UNL Extension Staff Workshop

Closing Thoughts

JOBS:

  • Descriptions may change
  • Strengthens the need for local Extension Educator

    IDENTITY:

  • Need to keep University image up front

    VALIDATING:

  • Information will become more important

    TARGETS:

  • Programs where excellence can be achieved
  • Need to begin working "within the system" to make technology better
  • Using similar programs by sharing via technology
  • Conversation, Dialogue, Brainstorm to make staff feel more comfortable with issues

    COOPERATION vs. COMPETITION:

    COOPERATIONCOMPETITION
    Need more cooperation
    Need more teamwork
    Need cooperation and competition among statesNeed cooperation and competition among states
    Sharing facultyState's rights
    Joint Projects with a "Win, Win" ReciprocityNot invented here

    NEW GEOGRAPHY:

  • Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming could be a "Super Campus"
  • Facilitate Local Sharing
  • Where are the natural affinities and the natural boundries?
  • Change has to occur at faculty level
  • We have to quit fighting territorial/turf wars
  • Can't dwell on title, but on the question

    EXPECTATION OF UNIT ADMINISTRATOR:

  • Get as many resources for our group as possible
  • Re-engineering
  • Quit some things
  • Where does the rest of the University fit in? Are they doing outreach, providing information, etc.?

    VALUE LINKAGES:

  • Field vs. Campus = Push & Pull
  • Who is/are Extension audiences?
  • Smart people aren't all at the university
  • Be creative about location
  • Why do we do what we do?
  • Emphasise PRODUCTS not REPORTS