Relationships Surrounding Extension Advisory Leadership Systems

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Relationships Surrounding Extension Advisory
Leadership Systems

• Strengthening Extension Advisory Leaders
• Cathy M. Sutphin, PhD
• Virginia Cooperative Extension
• Virginia Tech

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Community Involvement

• Extension Advisory Leadership Systems are the
  primary means for involving the community.

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Partner in the Programming Process
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Makeup of an Extension Advisory Leadership Group

• Reflective of the community
• Diverse
• Users and Non-users
• Representatives of funding sources
• Collaborators
• Program representatives
• Agency representatives

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Extension Staff Roles

• Convene the group
• Serve as content experts
• Local connection to the Land-Grant
• Educator
• Facilitator of the programming process
• Steward of the Extension mission and parameters

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Volunteer Roles

• Equal partners
• Any role within the programming process
• Committee members
• Leadership role

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Reference

• Extension Leadership Councils. Virginia
  Cooperative Extension. VA Tech Blacksburg, VA.