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2. Comparison of extension personnel and supervisor perceptions of communications activities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bowman, Brittany (author), Settle, Quisto (author), North, Elizabeth Gregory (author), Lewis, Kerri Collins (author), and Oklahoma State University Mississippi State University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- United States: New Prairie Press
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D10159
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(4)
- Notes:
- 18 pages, via online journal, Extension is often called the “best-kept secret” having low awareness with the public but high satisfaction with clientele. Extension services nationwide have faced budget cuts, creating a need for the organization to re-evaluate its activities, including how it communicates with its stakeholders. While Extension personnel are the ones who will do most of the communicating, their supervisors impact the personnel’s actions, which means it is important to assess both groups. A survey was conducted with Extension personnel and their supervisors in Mississippi assessing engagement in communications activities and perceptions of those activities, as well as personnel’s preference of professional development activities. Personnel reported higher use, comfort, and importance of more traditional (e.g. making a speech) and written activities (e.g. writing a promotional handout) than media-relations activities (e.g. being interviewed for TV), social media-related activities (e.g. managing a Twitter account), and visual communication activities (e.g. graphic design). Supervisors perceived individual communications activities as less important overall than personnel did, and although supervisor and communication scores for use and comfort/capability were similar for most communication activities, there were noticeable exceptions. Additionally, personnel preferred professional development activities that were hands-on or showing the activities first-hand (e.g. demonstrations and field days). Future research should be expanded to other states, conducted in a case study format to study specific relationships, and involve qualitative components. Extension should ensure clear supervisor-communication dialogue on prioritizing communication activities, provide training on communication activities with low use and comfort, and utilize early innovators who are comfortable using newer communication activities.
3. Cooperative Extension competencies for the community engagement professional
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Atiles, Jorge Horacio (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA: University of Georgia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10552
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(1) : 107-127
- Notes:
- 22 pages., via online journal., The community engagement professional (CEP) plays a critical role in engaging faculty, staff, and students with communities. In order to do this in the most effective way, this essay advocates for CEPs to become familiar with the Cooperative Extension system and develop competency for engaging Extension personnel, even when those personnel are not a part of the CEP’s home institution. The essay extends the work of Dostilio et al. (2017) on preliminary competencies for the community engagement professional by identifying additional competencies, organized as knowledge, skill, and dispositions, that can help CEPs work with the Cooperative Extension system to maximize engagement opportunities for faculty, staff, and students. This essay also includes ideas for implementing competency training for CEPs. Conclusions include thoughts on preparing the community engagement professional to learn and collaborate with Cooperative Extension to enrich the academic experience and benefit the communities they serve.
4. Elementary school students’ needs and preferences regarding urban agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lee, A-Young (author), Kim, Seon-Ok (author), Park, Sin-Ae (author), and Konkuk University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12
- Published:
- Republic of Korea: American Society for Horticultural Science
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10321
- Journal Title:
- HortTechnology
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(6) : 783-794
- Notes:
- 12 pages, via online journal, This study aimed to investigate elementary school students’ needs and preferences regarding urban agriculture. In total, 1268 students in grades 4 to 6 at four elementary schools in Seoul, South Korea, participated in the study. A 21-item questionnaire was developed and distributed in each school by trained researchers for 3 weeks in Oct. 2017. More than 73.7% of the students reported having an awareness of and need for urban agriculture, and 86.8% (N = 1048) indicated their participation intention. Students noted needing urban agriculture for scientific inquiry and recommended including a learning activity in urban agriculture (35.4%, N = 400) for psychological stability and stress reduction (20.9%, N = 236), and for leisure and hobby purposes (16.2%, N = 183). Students reported participating in urban agriculture activities in indoor and outdoor spaces (33.8%, N = 423) for more than 30 minutes and less than 60 minutes (42.0%, N = 525) twice per week (40.2%, N = 501) with friends (72.9%, N = 818). Preferred urban agriculture indoor activities were planting plants (21.8%, N = 822), arranging flowers (20.9%, N = 788), and making craftwork using plants (18.9%, N = 714). Harvesting (20.8%, N = 790), watering (15.1%, N = 570), and planting transplants (13.1%, N = 493) were preferred outdoor activities. Other preferred activities included playing with livestock (22.4%, N = 884), cooking with the harvested crops (21.3%, N = 805), and feeding livestock (17.2%, N = 650). The female students demonstrated greater perception, experience, awareness of the necessity, and willingness to participate in urban agriculture compared with male students (P = 0.01). The lower the grade, the more students perceived the necessity of urban agriculture (P < 0.001). The results of this study can provide basic data for the practical development of urban agriculture programs for elementary school students.
5. Faces and phases of participation: a local experience on coastal resources management in southern Philippines
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mendoza, Eva N. (author) and Porquis, Joy Melyn J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- Philippines
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: D07594
- Journal Title:
- AES Bioflux
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (3): 255-264
6. Green shoots: how small signs of hope are sprouting up across the impoverished local news landscape
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bednar, Olivia (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-15
- Published:
- Canada: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 25 Document Number: D10545
- Journal Title:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism
- Journal Title Details:
- Spring 2019
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., Article examines challenges facing local news media and introduces some options they are exploring.
7. Keeping communities informed: Part 1. Weeklies react to a global pandemic
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Curtiss, Brook D. (author), Hale-Spencer, Melissa (author), Hueston, Brett (author), Whitney, Jonathan (author), Harnack, Roger (author), McLaughlin, Kaylie (author), Lozinski, Peter (author), Hedlund, Patric (author), Meyer, Eric (author), Wagner, Ellen (author), Nash, Noel (author), White, Mark (author), Ranson, Steve (author), Meier, Jill (author), Sawvell, Derek (author), Keck, Randy (author), Murray, Ian (author), McCarthy, James (author), and Valpy, Bruce (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- USA: International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11786
- Journal Title:
- Grassroots Editor
- Journal Title Details:
- 61(1) : 2-6
- Notes:
- Online via UI electronic subscription., Brief case examples of how community newspapers adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of suspended activities in their communities.
8. Social support functions during a slowly-evolving environmental disaster: The case of amphibole asbestos exposure in Libby, Montana
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cline, Rebecca J. W. (author), Orom, Heather (author), Child, Jeffrey T. (author), Hernandez, Tanis (author), and Black, Brad (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-11
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07157
- Journal Title:
- Health Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(11) : 1135-1148
9. What is your library worth? Extension uses public value workshops in communities
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Haskell, Jane E. (author) and Morse, George W. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06024
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 53(2) : 2FEA1