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Sustainability: The Future of Cooperative Extension Programming
Okay, I’m convinced: The biggest issue for Extension for the foreseeable future will be sustainability. The recent columns of three New York Times writers helped close the sale for me. Here’s why: Fi… more →
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Sustainability: The Future of Cooperative Extension Programming
missionextension wrote 1 month ago: Okay, I’m convinced: The biggest issue for Extension for the foreseeable future will be sustainabili … more →
What Cooperative Extension Sorely Needs: More Public Intellectuals
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missionextension wrote 3 months ago: What has become of America’s scientific vanguard — those people who helped inspire and create a tech … more →
Reports of the Demise of Cooperative Extension Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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missionextension wrote 4 months ago: An op-ed posted this weekend in the New York Times’s online edition is making its rounds among Alaba … more →
From Newspapers to Nichepapers
missionextension wrote 4 months ago: For some time, I’ve been feeling a vague sense of guilt over the direction our organization’s online … more →
A Glance Backward, A Step Forward
missionextension wrote 5 months ago: Yes, I hear it all the time: Cooperative Extension faces some of the most challenging times in our h … more →
Creep-Proofing Our Features — and Our Mission and Image
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missionextension wrote 5 months ago: A couple of days ago, I promised that I would offer some suggestions aimed at resolving the feature … more →
Taking the Creep Out of Our Features
missionextension wrote 5 months ago: After almost a quarter century working for an organization, you begin to see things — patterns. As … more →
Improvising an Apology
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missionextension wrote 5 months ago: This morning, I woke up with the term “muddle” bouncing around in my head. I applied that term rece … more →
Muddling Through: The Great Extension Dilemma
missionextension wrote 5 months ago: I’ve often joked that the Cooperative Extension concept shares a lot in common with the Britis … more →
Lessons for Cooperative Extension
missionextension wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been an active user of the Web for some 13 years now — since 1996. Shortly after I got started … more →
Banishing the "Hick" Factor
missionextension wrote 1 year ago: Discussing the history of land-grant universities with Carolyn Whatley yesterday, I was reminded of … more →
Of Cow Colleges and British Dominions
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missionextension wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been known for invoking some strange analogies in the course of my professional career, but I’v … more →
