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Or: Making the Best BetterSandy Macnab
Professor, OSU Extension
Transforming OSU Extension and My Role in
Its Transformation as Regional Administrator
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Established 1911To 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 1914Passage of Smith-Lever Act
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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.”
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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
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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
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Land use planning
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Master Gardeners
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Master GardenersMaster Woodland ManagersMaster Food PreserversMaster Watershed StewardsMaster RecyclersMaster Green BuildersMaster Anglers
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ListeningCounty CourtsAdvisory Councils4H Leaders AssociationsCommodity groupsCivic/Service groupsExtension faculty and staffOther
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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?
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Currently 17 positionsRetirements looming
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Do we simply refill the same position?Are the support dollars there?Re-organize the position or totally new?Possibly regionalize?
Consider all the costsMust make sense
Coordinate a shared position?Fill position with campus based faculty?Drop the position?
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What do the people want and agree to?
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Discover what needs are un-addressedCan we find replacement agents to address
different roles/ Do we want to?
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Priority:The OSU COUNTY Extension Program
One century… One mission
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Limited within region
Each stream is separate.
As regional agent and chair…..
1. Managing multiple streams of funds and honoring existing sources /agreements within this region.
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2a. How have you changed your thinking to embrace transformation changes?
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2b. Balancing community needs vs organizational constraints
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2c. How to advocate and be resource for employees during this transformation?
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3. Describe how you have been effective in in an environment that values diversity.