A01=James A Christenson
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Author_James A Christenson
Author_Paul Warner
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community development
community engagement strategies
cooperative extension service
County Level Information
County Programs
County Staff
educational agency
Electronic Messaging
EMIS
Energy Conservation
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Evaluation Staff Unit
Extension Clientele
Extension Management Information System
Family Resource Management
Foreign Agriculture
home economics
Home Economics Programs
information dissemination networks
Leadership Development
Metro Counties
national extension service assessment
Non-metro Areas
Nonmetro Areas
Nonmetro Counties
Nutrition Education Program
Personal Development
Policy Issues
program evaluation methods
public sector education
Rural Nonfarm
rural outreach programs
Significant Age Variation
Smith Lever Act
stakeholder satisfaction analysis
State Extension Services
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Product details
- ISBN 9780367291051
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 148 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Cooperative Extension Service, a publicly supported educational agency, is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our changing society. Should its mission be broadly based or narrowly focused? Should staff members be generalists or specialists? Should its clients be primarily rural or urban, farm or nonfarm? What role should Extension play in the information networks of the twenty-first century? Professors Warner and Christenson take a broad look at these and other questions concerning where the Extension Service has been, how well it is doing, and where it ought to go. Theirs is, first, the only comprehensive national survey that looks at the total Extension organization rather than at just one program area. Second, it expresses the viewpoint of Extension clients and the public, rather than that of the organization's staff; and third, it combines outside survey information with data recorded in the Extension Management Information System (EMIS) and other routine agency reports. The authors evaluate, among other things, the extent of public awareness of the agency and its four major program areas (agriculture, home economics, 4-H, and community development), determine the users and nonusers of the programs and the accessibility of programs to the general population, identify the level of satisfaction with existing programs, and outline priorities and policy issues for the future.
"Paul D. Warner is professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky and Extension specialist with the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. He has conducted several evaluation studies of innovative program delivery systems, the most recent of which explored the organizational impacts of a videotext information system for delivering weather, market, and production information to farmers.
James A. Christenson is professor and chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. From 1972 to 1976 he was Extension specialist at North Carolina State University. Since 1979 he has served as director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Kentucky and is currently the editor of Rural Sociology."
