New Vision for Penn State Extension
Penn State Extension empowers statewide program teams of Extension Educators who focus programming on areas of excellence within the college that is delivered through a county-based presence and provides stakeholders universal access to research-based information and solutions through existing and emerging technologies.
A new vision for Penn State Extension
- A unified organization focused on strategic areas of excellence
- Leverages all college resources and functions collectively and efficiently as one organization to meet stakeholder needs
- Prioritizes program focus around an interdisciplinary, systems approach that leverages the college’s areas of excellence around the sustainable intersection of three interrelated systems: food and fiber; ecosystems; and socioeconomic system.
- With a program team approach to research and educational program development and delivery
- Shifts from geographic-based programming to audience-based programming focusing on Ag sector needs and priority issues
- Provides statewide access to expertise and a visible point of contact through statewide program teams
- Empowers program teams to collectively and continuously improve program quality and stakeholder satisfaction
- Leverages and compliments program team members’ strengths and expertise to maximize the teams' impact
- Provides high quality, consistent educational programs statewide
- Distributed through a county-based presence addressing local needs
- Maintains a local office, connection and presence with Educators/Team
members strategically located in all counties and delivering programs locally
- Provides a key, county-based distribution network for all Extension programming
- In collaboration with diverse, statewide partnerships
- Leverages key partnerships, resources, expertise, and volunteers to address Pennsylvania priorities - including county commissioners, commodity groups, non-profits, government agencies, clients, etc.
- And providing stakeholders universal access to research-based information and programs through diverse technologies and formats
- With the evolution of technology and customer expectations, shifting from information distribution to information access model
- In addition to face to face programs - provides universal access to comprehensive information and online communities through various formats (e.g., Web, e-books, mobile, webinars, blogs, etc.), so stakeholders can access information when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it
