Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06574
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James F. Evans Collection, Washington, D.C. : 1992 U.S. Agricultural Communicators' Congress, 1992. 32 p., A report of the highlights of the 1992 U.S. Agricultural Communicators' Congress; 1992 June 28 - July 1; Washington, D.C.
Announces the beginning of NPAC "the day after Labor Day" at Michigan State University, with Stanley Andrews as executive director. Provides biographies of Andrews and new associate director, Frank Byrnes.
Raises eight questions for ACE members: " 1) Are we glorified clerks or are we scientists? 2) What are desirable forms of publication and information materials? Scientists are demanding longer bulletins. The public is calling for shorter. 3) What should be the professional training of men and women to become agricultural and home editors? One school suggests that all that is needed in our fields is a certain facility -- we are engaged in a science -- home scientists measure success by acceptance in AP and UP. 4) Is there opportunity for research in the field of farm and home editing? 5) What is to be the future of agriculture and what leadership will the college of agriculture, the experiment stations, and the USDA be called upon to give? Together with our institutions, we must begin long-time planning. 6) What place has and will the radio have in carrying to the people the results of research? 7) How shall we measure results in our field? 8) What are we going to do about it?"
Report to members by Frank Byrnes, chairman of the Professional Improvement Committee, about a proposal to be submitted to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
