eXtension Strategy Committee Chair Keith Smith, Ohio State University, reports continued efforts to report to ECOP at its Tuesday, July 22, 2014 meeting in San Diego about a plan for the future of eXtension.
A networked learning framework, a cooperative governance model, and a new approach to funding are being discussed. After the ECOP July meeting where Smith, Elbert Dickey, eXtension Executive Director, and Dennis Calvin, eXtension Governing Committee Chair from Pennsylvania State University, will report, information will be provided to all Cooperative Extension Directors and Administrators.
Each of the five Cooperative Extension regions has a representative on the eXtension Strategy Committee in addition to a regional representative to the eXtension Governing Committee working with this team. (Report courtesy Jane Schuchardt’s Monday Minute)