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Transforming OSU Extension and My Role in Its Transformation as Regional Administrator

Transforming OSU Extension and My Role in Its Transformation as Regional Administrator. Or: Making the Best Better Sandy Macnab Professor, OSU Extension. OSU Extension. Established 1911 To take the knowledge from the college to the people, “extending the campus” to all Oregonians.

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Transforming OSU Extension and My Role in Its Transformation as Regional Administrator

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  1. Transforming OSU Extension and My Role in Its Transformation as Regional Administrator Or: Making the Best Better Sandy Macnab Professor, OSU Extension

  2. OSU Extension • Established 1911 • To take the knowledge from the college to the people, “extending the campus” to all Oregonians. • Later added deliver the needs and real issues from the people back to campus to be addressed • Feds joined in 1914 • Passage of Smith-Lever Act

  3. OSU Extension • Representative Lever: • “The County Agent is to assume leadership in every movement, whatever it may be, the aim of which is better farming, more education, better living, more happiness and greater citizenship.”

  4. OSU Extension • Sought, tested, purchased conservation tillage equipment • Purchased insecticide and sprayed up to 72,000 acres for Mormon crickets • Led conversion from sacked grain to bulk storage • Provided for and promoted Victory Gardens

  5. OSU Extension • Demonstrated improved range land grasses and practices • Chaired the Draft Board, labor pools, ration programs, Neighborhood Leader Planning, long range planning • Chaired local scrap metal drives

  6. OSU Extension • Land use planning

  7. OSU Extension • Master Gardeners

  8. OSU Extension • Master Gardeners • Master Woodland Managers • Master Food Preservers • Master Watershed Stewards • Master Recyclers • Master Green Builders • Master Anglers

  9. OSU Extension • Listening • County Courts • Advisory Councils • 4H Leaders Associations • Commodity groups • Civic/Service groups • Extension faculty and staff • Other

  10. OSU Extension • Are we meeting local needs? • Do we have the skills to meet them? • How to address those priorities? • Career vs. seasonal vs. episodic? • How to fund?

  11. OSU Extension • Currently 17 positions • Retirements looming

  12. OSU Extension • Do we simply refill the same position? • Are the support dollars there? • Re-organize the position or totally new? • Possibly regionalize? • Consider all the costs • Must make sense • Coordinate a shared position? • Fill position with campus based faculty? • Drop the position?

  13. OSU Extension • What do the people want and agree to?

  14. OSU Extension • Discover what needs are un-addressed • Can we find replacement agents to address different roles/ Do we want to?

  15. OSU Extension • Priority: • The OSU COUNTY Extension Program • One century… One mission

  16. 1. Managing multiple streams of funds and honoring existing sources /agreements within this region. • Limited within region • Each stream is separate. • As regional agent and chair…..

  17. 2a. How have you changed your thinking to embrace transformation changes?

  18. 2b. Balancing community needs vs organizational constraints

  19. 2c. How to advocate and be resource for employees during this transformation?

  20. 3. Describe how you have been effective in in an environment that values diversity.

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