Cornell’s position paper on eXtension (e - extension)
http://hosts.cce.cornell.edu/admin/program/CCE_eXtension_pos_paper_02-07.pdf
This position paper actually is the second we have written. It was developed because, as stewards of the funding provided to support extension programming in New York more than 85% of which comes state and local sources, we are obligated to explore the implications of any externally initiated commitments. We have a particular obligation to ensure that “transformation” of the extension system is in the best interest or our constituents and to understand the full implications for our system. Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) annual investment in eXtension already totals several times our formal eXtension assessment and clearly will grow significantly in coming years. The paper was shared with states in our region and selected others when we were challenged as to why we would have any issue with our assessment given the size of our system.
Readers may find several things of note in our full report. There is a section of our report that articulates benefits of eXtension to CCE that received only passing mention in the eXtension response. It’s worth a read. There also are a series of recommendations at the end that we believe demonstrate our intent to find ways for eXtension to be an asset for our New York State constituencies and for CCE to contribute appropriately to eXtension nationally.
- Michael W. Duttweiler, Assistant Director
- Cornell eXtension Institutional Team Chair