New Staff Orientation

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New Staff Orientation

• November 20, 2006
• John Pike
• Dean Director

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Overview

• Land, Sea, Space Grant University
• Mission
• Legislation
• Organizational Charts
• Funding and Partners
• Personnel, Volunteers and Office Locations
• Collaborative Partnerships
• Program Areas
• Forces Shaping Cooperative Extension
• Strategic Planning

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Mission
UNH Cooperative Extension provides New Hampshire
citizens with research-based education, enhancing
their ability to make informed decisions that
strengthen youth, families and communities,
sustain natural resources, and improve the
economy.
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Legislative Basis for Cooperative Extension

• Federal
• 1914 Smith Lever Act
• Partnership between USDA and Land Grant
  Universities
• Cooperative Extension is an outreach program in
  every state including 74 land grant institutions
  10,000 Extension educators working in 3,150
  counties

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Legislative Basis for Cooperative Extension

• State
• RSA 2410 UNH Extension Program Purpose
  and Intent
• Mission tripartite agreement endorsing
  appropriation of county funds.
• RSA 2410-a County Programs
  UNH Cooperative Extension
• County Advisory Council communication
  technologies 6 year MOU
  county funds expended through the council.
• RSA 187-A6 County Programs
  UNH Cooperative Extension Outreach Programs
• References 2410 MOU with DRED/ Division of
  Forests and Lands
  funds expended through UNH.

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Legislative Basis for Cooperative Extension

• County
• Memorandum of Understanding between USNH Trustees
  and County Government relevant to the support and
  operations of UNHCE programs in counties.
• MOU reviewed every 6 years in each of the 10
  counties. Next renewal due in fall 2012.

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Legislative Basis for Cooperative Extension

• County
• County Extension Advisory Councils sponsor and
  guide Extension work at the local level
• Councils comprised of 14 members from each county
  including a County Commissioner and a Legislator

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Organizational Charts

• USDA/CSREES
• USNH
• UNH Provost
• Cooperative Extension

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Organizational Chart 11/06 Key
administrative supervisory relationships
Major working relationships
Provost Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs Bruce L. Mallory

Dean Director John Pike

State Advisory Council
UNH Deans Directors
Associate Director James Grady
Assistant Director Finance Human
Resources Vacant
Assistant Director County Operations Paul
Bonaparte-Krogh
Program Leaders Charlene Baxter, Family
Consumer Resources Wendy Brock, 4-H Youth
Development Juli Brussell, Agricultural
Resources Darrel Covell, Forestry
Wildlife Brian Doyle, Sea Grant Extension Water
Resources
County Office Administrators
Information Technology Distance Education
Communications
Business Service Center
County Advisory Councils
Academic Departments, Centers and Institutes
Staff and Volunteers
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Funding Partnerships
State Government
County Government
University of New Hampshire
County Cooperative Extension Councils
UNH Cooperative Extension
US Dept. of Agriculture/Extension
Public/Private Grants Gifts
NH Dept. of Resources Economic Development Div.
of Forests Lands
NH Fish Game
NH Sea Grant College Program
US Fish Wildlife Service
USDA/Forest Service
USDC/NOAA Sea Grant
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UNH Cooperative Extension Revenue by Funding
Source 18,510,000
Fees 900,000
Gifts 350,000
UNH General Funding 1,430,000
Grants 3,584,000
County Appropriations 2,794,000
State Appropriations 7,510,000
Federal Appropriations 1,942,000
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UNH Cooperative Extension Staff

• Includes Extension Educators, Extension
  Faculty, Faculty and Research Faculty
• 11/20/06
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NH Lakes Lay Monitors 400
Coverts Cooperators 228
Marine Docents 170
Community Tree Stewards 189
UNH Cooperative Extension Citizen Volunteers 4,033
Master Gardeners 522
Great Bay Coast Watch 100
4-H Volunteers 2,284
County Advisory Council Volunteers 140
June 1, 2006
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• Campus Offices
• James Hall
  - Resource Economics and Development
• Kendall Hall
  - Animal Nutritional Sciences
• Kingman Farm
  - Sea Grant, Water Marine Resources
• Moiles House Equine Center - 4-H
  Youth Development
• Morse Hall
  - Sea Grant, Water Marine Resources
• Nesmith Hall
  - Forestry Wildlife Water Resources
• Pettee Hall
  - Family Studies
• Spaulding Hall
• - Plant Biology
• Taylor Hall
  - Administration

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Faculty Connections with Cooperative Extension

• Approximately 100 faculty from 35 departments/
  programs
• Partnerships with all UNH Schools and Colleges

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UNH Cooperative Extension Major Program Areas
Family, Community and Youth
Natural Resources
4-H Youth Development Agricultural
Resources Community Development Family Consumer
Resources Forestry Wildlife Water, Sea Grant
and Marine Resources Contact with 250,000
residents last year
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Forces Shaping Cooperative Extension Programming

• Internal
• State Extension Council
• County Extension Councils
• Advisory Committees
• Volunteers
• Staff

• University
• Trustees/Chancellors Office
• UNH Administration
• Faculty/Staff/Students

• General Public
• Citizens
• Special Interest Groups

Programming

• County Government
• Administrators
• Commissioners
• Legislators
• Agencies

• Federal Government
• USDA/Extension Service
• Federal Agencies
• Congress

• State Government
• Legislature
• Governors Office
• State Agencies

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Strategic Planning

• UNH Academic Plan 2003 - 2008
• UNH CE Strategic Plan 2001-2006
• 2007-2012 Strategic Planning Committee
• Val Long (facilitator)
• Juli Brussell
• Nancy Evans
• Charlie French
• Thom Linehan
• Amy Ouellette
• Julia Peterson
• Matt Tarr
• Lisa Townson
• UNH CE Plan of Work 2007-2011