1. AESE Extension Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education Penn State Extension Conference April 22, 2014

2. AESE at a glance 3 clusters: – Agricultural and Extension Education (AEE) – Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) – Rural Sociology (RS) Instructional programs: – 5 undergraduate majors (1 online launching Fall 2014) – 5 graduate programs (1 online) – 6 minors, – 5 dual title programs 41 tenure line, plus numerous fixed term multi-year and other faculty – 16.46 teaching FTEs – 14.52 research FTEs – 7.02 extension FTEs AEE: 4.15 ARE: 2.87 RS: 0

3. Department Head Tickamyer Associate Department Head McLaughlin Undergraduate Student Services Coordinator Citarella CEDEV Spears-Taft Stringfellow Alter CSIS Shingler Van Loon RULE Dunbar Homan Operations Manager Gardner Admin Support Staff Rossman Sheckler Vacant Financial Support Staff Thompson Confer Stamm Graduate Student Support Staff Ault Mincemoyer Better Kid Care Program Belinda Hall Hite Horning Nestlerode Rokavec Selby Walizer CYTTP Hall Sachs PA WaGN Neiner Stone Harper Kime Goetz NERCRD Burke Devlin Etemadnia Ewing CPPD Miller Seaman Faculty 41 Standing 10 Fixed Term 4 undergraduate majors 6 undergraduate minors 5 graduate programs AESE Organizational Chart  04/14/2014 Shortle ENRI Nachman Perkins Military Family Readiness Extension Associates Cooperative Extension 400 undergraduate majors 150 minors, double majors and undeclared majors 108 active, resident graduate students 200 online graduate students EPLs Agricultural Economics Agricultural & Extension Education Rural Sociology Staff Gibboney Morning

4. Instructional programs Table 1. AESE Instructional Programs and Student Numbers Program Degree(s) offered Number of students* Graduate Programs** Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics (AEREC)PhD, MS37 Agricultural and Extension Education (AEE) PhD, MS, MEd 27 Applied Youth, Family and Community Education (AYFCE)MS, MEd2 Community and Economic Development (CEDEV) MPS Graduate Certificate 150 79 Rural Sociology (R SOC)PhD, MS40 Total 335 Undergraduate Program – Majors*** Agribusiness Management (AG BM) in residenceBS188 Agribusiness Management (AG BM) onlineBSOpens 9/2014 Agricultural and Extension Education (AEE) BS, Teacher Certification 75 Agricultural Science (AG SC)BS126 Community, Environment and Development (CED)BS108 Total 497 Undergraduate Programs – Minors*** Agribusiness Management (AG BM) 73 Agricultural Communications (AGCOM) 8 Civic and Community Engagement (CIVCM) 17 Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENTI) (new program) 25 International Agriculture (INTAG) 34 Leadership Development (L DEV) 19 Minors in the process of being dropped Environmental and Renewable Resources Minor (ERRE) 15 Youth and Family Education (YFE) 2 Total 193 * Student numbers are as of January 24, 2104 ** Graduate programs in AESE also participate actively in the following dual-title degree programs: Demography (AEREC, RSOC); Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and the Environment (RSOC); International Agriculture and Development (AEE, AEREC, RSOC); Operations Research (AEREC); Women’s Studies (RSOC). *** Number of students includes both officially declared majors and minors and students who have indicated their intention to declare and are advised in the department.

5. Current AESE Extension Web Pages http://aese.psu.edu/extension http://aese.psu.edu/extension/faculty- working-in-extension http://aese.psu.edu/extension/faculty- working-in-extension

6. Current AESE Extension Web Page

7. Faculty and Associates Charles Abdalla, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics Connie Baggett, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education James Beierlein, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural Economics Cathy F. Bowen, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education Sarah Cornelisse Senior Extension Associate James Dunn, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural Economics Stephan Goetz, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics and Director of Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development Jayson Harper, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural Economics Jeffrey Hyde, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural Economics Patreese Ingram, Ph.D. Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs Matt Kaplan, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education Lynn Kime Senior Extension Associate Claudia Mincemoyer, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education Daniel Perkins, Ph.D. Professor of Human Development and Family Studies Rama Radhakrishna, Ph.D. Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education Jan Scholl, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education Bill Shuffstall Senior Extension Educator Walt Whitmer Senior Extension Associate, Economic and Community Development

8. Future Web Page: Portal for AESE Extension Programs I. YOUTH AND FAMILY 4-H, Better Kid Care, Intergenerational work, PROSPER, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, Consumer Issues II. FARM AND FOOD BUSINESSES AgrAbility; Dairy Marketing, Ag Alternatives, Crop Insurance, Farm Management, PA-WagN III. FOOD AND HEALTH Health Insurance, AgrAbility, EFNEP IV, ECONOMIC, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY ECD, Water Resources policy efforts, RULE

10. Mission, Values, Vision Mission: We create and extend knowledge in the social sciences through nationally and internationally recognized research, teaching, and outreach activities. We achieve this through excellence in three key social science disciplines: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Rural Sociology, and Agricultural and Extension Education. Values: AESE subscribes to core values that reinforce and emerge from its academic mission. These include a commitment to excellence, innovation, sustainability, and relevance in our scholarship; respect for diversity and difference in approaches to scholarship; collegiality, collaboration, and responsiveness to each other and to stakeholders; and transparency and inclusiveness in our operations. Vision: Excellence and leadership in teaching, research, and outreach in applied social sciences within and across disciplines, programs, and thematic areas, domestically and internationally.

11. Three Thematic Areas 1. Agricultural and Food Systems 2. Environment and Natural Resources 3.Human, Community, and Regional Development

12. I. Agricultural and Food Systems Initiative 1: Food, Behavior, and Health Goal 1: Become a center of excellence for scholarship on food, behavior, and health. Initiative 2: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Goal 2: Grow and disseminate the Entrepreneurship and Innovation body of knowledge in food, agriculture and bio- renewables. Initiative 3: Food Security and Food Systems Sustainability Goal 3: Assume a leadership role in consolidating, coordinating and catalyzing social science centered scholarship, policy and action on food security and food system sustainability.

13. II. Environment and Natural Resources Initiative 1: Human Activity and the Environment and Natural Resources Goal 4: Become a leader in coordinating and conducting research, and disseminating knowledge on the interrelationships between human activities and the environment and natural resources. Initiative 2: Climate Change Goal 5: Lead in developing disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship on integrated assessment of climate change.

14. III. Human, Community, and Regional Development Initiative 1: International Development Goal 6: Become a central and indispensable contributor to research, teaching and outreach on sustainable global development. Initiative 2: Build Capacity for Public Issue and Policy Analysis Goal 7: Emerge as a nationally recognized hub for new research and outreach on pressing economic and social development issues and policies.

15. Extension goals D. Goals for Extension Our fundamental mission is to draw upon our disciplinary expertise to address contemporary and emerging societal interests and needs. Goal 13: Assess and focus extension and outreach programs in AESE. Goal 14: Enhance integration of outreach and research.

16. Goal 13: Assess and enhance targeted extension and outreach programs in AESE ObjectiveStrategiesActions/Metrics Assess AESE contributions and support to extension and outreach.  Identify specific extension and outreach programming to which AESE contributes and levels and forms of AESE support.  Document contributions to extension in posted annual report. Identify ways and incentives to encourage all AESE faculty to engage in extension and outreach.  Catalog existing outreach and extension activities conducted by AESE faculty, including informal activities conducted outside of the traditional Extension system.  Identify and address barriers and disincentives for faculty to participate in outreach and extension activities.  Establish a regular forum for bringing together faculty and extension educators to keep each other informed of ongoing projects and activities, and explore possibilities for collaboration.  Posted annual report.  Discuss barriers with college extension administration.  Forum held, collaborations developed.

17. Goal 14: Enhance integration of outreach and research ObjectiveStrategiesActions/Metrics Proactively assess stakeholder needs, existing field-based and other resources available to support outreach and extension efforts, and alternative means of program delivery to identify areas where AESE can increase contributions to outreach and engagement.  Communicate with stakeholder groups about their interests and needs.  Work with stakeholder groups to identify which of these can be best addressed by AESE faculty, extension associates and extension educators.  Contacts (both one time, and on- going) with appropriate stakeholder groups.  Collaborative efforts with stakeholders to support outreach and extension program development and delivery. Increase internal and external visibility of AESE extension program impacts and scholarship.  Regularly highlight existing outreach and extension activities in formal AESE communications to stakeholders and alumni.  Number of stories or highlights about outreach programs posted on the AESE website, in alumni newsletters, webinars, college materials, and other communications. Increase joint research and outreach-oriented projects, and translational materials, such as publications, websites, presentations, videos.  Encourage development of working groups that include research and extension faculty and educators to identify, develop and submit relevant and timely proposals and subsequent publications.  Informal working groups created and sustained over time, number of participating faculty and staff.  Funded proposals that combine research and outreach related goals.  Projects combining research and outreach related goals.  Translational materials created. Identify strategies to increase collaboration with other CAS department faculty, staff and county-based educators and staff.  Evaluate ways to integrate across functions, including involving extension faculty and educators in research and teaching activities, and teaching faculty in extension activities.  Increase in partnerships of research and extension faculty and educators across missions.

18. Issues for the Future (and Discussion) Imbalance across clusters and themes Links between faculty and extension personnel Correspondence between extension reorganization and faculty foci and expertise Orphan programs Burnout and support Mission priorities Other? How to go forward?