Engagement to Enhance Community: An Example of Extension’s Land-Grant Mission in Action

Burkhart-Kriesel, Cheryl A.; Weigle, Jason L.; Hawkins, Jennifer

doi:10.3390/socsci8010027

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“…The time spent in the community by the agents had built the trust illustrating one of the principles of Burkhart‐Kriesel et al. (2019) study on land‐grant extension services success in helping communities thrive.…”

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Rural postsecondary encouragement through a land grant university county extension office

Musoba,

Lopez

2023

New Drctns Hghr Edu

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Rural students graduate from high school at higher rates but go to college at lower rate than their urban and suburban peers. To take on the educational attainment challenge for rural students, we need to know more about postsecondary encouragement programs. This study examined a pilot postsecondary encouragement program in 11 rural high schools with two questions: How do high school counselors support students’ plans for life after high school through a land‐grant outreach program? How is a university outreach program utilized in these schools? This qualitative case study used 17 individual interviews with school counselors and county extension agents. According to school counselors, the postsecondary encouragement program increased financial aid applications and student interest in college going. County extension agents were a trusted bridge between the program and the local high schools. Tracking student milestones helped school counselors serve all students, and program experts provided workshops for students and parents. Campus visits helped students visualize themselves as college students, yet financial concerns dominated the students’ college choices.Practical Takeaways Postsecondary encouragement through information from experts combined with local support can be a cost‐effective intervention to increase rural students’ college going. Counselors tracking all students for college and career readiness milestones ensure all students are given the message that they are college material, a predictor of enrollment. Counselors and students lack clear information about costs and financial aid availability, but these are important to rural families’ decisions. Local county extension agents can serve as the bridge between the rural student population and the 4‐year universities. Extension agents and school counselors gave credibility to outside experts.

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Rural postsecondary encouragement through a land grant university county extension office

Musoba,

Lopez

2023

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“…Wisconsin has long been a leader in organic agriculture, ranking second in the USA with respect to number of organic farms, number of transitioning organic acres and number of organic vegetable farms [Bauer et al ., 2017; USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), 2019]. The development of Extension programming targeted at the specific needs of organic farmers is critical to minimize the risks associated with economically devastating diseases within organic systems (Van Bruggen et al ., 2016; Burkhart-Kriesel et al ., 2019; Rawat et al ., 2021; Shahi et al ., 2021). Disease management is a particular challenge for organic farmers, frequently ranking high as a barrier to successful organic vegetable production (Letourneau and van Bruggen, 2017; Shahi et al ., 2021).…”

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Exploring grower strategies and needs for enhancing organic disease management of tomato late blight

Gevens

Silva

2022

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, poses a significant challenge to organic tomato and potato production systems across the globe. To enhance education and outreach programming pertaining to tomato organic late blight management in Wisconsin, we sought to identify grower strategies and needs through an online survey conducted during spring 2018. Our findings demonstrated that organic growers emphasized crop diversity, crop rotation and soil health in their late blight management decisions. Grower concerns about biopesticides were identified and suggest that the use of input-based products within integrated management programs could be enhanced by further research on effectiveness and modes of actions. Additionally, stronger emphasis on oomycete pathogen biology and the significance of late blight as a community disease were identified as important areas of emphasis in the development of organic disease management education programming and resources that promote more effective cultural and chemical disease management strategies that adhere to the regulation and principles underlying the USDA National Organic Program. The integration of a live polling questionnaire conducted in winter 2019 allowed us to corroborate findings from the online survey and underscored the importance of two-way learning to enhance outreach efforts between Extension and organic growers in Wisconsin and the surrounding upper Midwestern states.

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“…Studies have shown that entrepreneurial universities actively engage in technology transfer and commercialization of knowledge via patenting, spin-off creation and other research commercialization activities (Leišytė and Fochler, 2018). Knowledge transfer between university and industry via university teaching in the Triple Helix context has merited less attention (Roper and Hirth, 2005;Normann and Pinheiro, 2018;Burkhart-Kriesel et al, 2019). Thus, this article aims to understand the emergence of the new organizational forms in teaching and learning that enhance Triple Helix linkages in an entrepreneurial university.…”

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Study Program Innovation in the Triple Helix Context: The Case of Cooperative Study Programs at a German University of Applied Sciences

Schiller

Leišytė

2020

Triple Helix

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The purpose of this article is to understand how Triple Helix linkages foster study program innovation at the micro-level and how the entrepreneurial university shapes support structures and processes to foster this innovation at the meso-level. We draw on the case of cooperative study programs from a German university of applied sciences. We selected business administration and nursing as two different disciplinary examples. Cooperative study programs are delivered partly at university and partly in industry and illustrate the hybridity that shapes the knowledge transfer at a university. Our study draws on semi-structured interviews with professors, industry representatives, students and policy makers as well as on pertinent documents. Our data show that Triple-Helix interactions generate program innovations and, depending on the discipline, have a focus on a Double Helix. In addition, the study shows the processes and their limitations by which teaching is transferred in partnership with industry in the entrepreneurial university context.

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Engagement to Enhance Community: An Example of Extension’s Land-Grant Mission in Action

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Rural postsecondary encouragement through a land grant university county extension office

Rural postsecondary encouragement through a land grant university county extension office

Exploring grower strategies and needs for enhancing organic disease management of tomato late blight

Study Program Innovation in the Triple Helix Context: The Case of Cooperative Study Programs at a German University of Applied Sciences

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