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2. Communicating with people, not lawyers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Information, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- Circa 1973
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: D10748
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., Emphasis on writing public information that is readable and understandable. Cites an example of a proposed news release from the deputy of one USDA agency. It contained a 68-word sentence found not understandable.
3. Factors in the use of a U.S.D.A. fact sheet issued through the mass communication channels of the Cooperative Extension Service
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bierman, Everett E. (author)
- Format:
- Master's thesis
- Publication Date:
- 1958
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: B03341
- Notes:
- Phase II; Contains Preface, Table of Contents, and Introduction only. Summary available in Main Stacks 630.73 Un364r, Washington, D.C. : The American University, 1958. 111 p. (Master thesis, communication)
4. Identifying Barriers to Forage Innovation: Native Grasses and Producer Knowledge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Keyser, Patrick (author), Schexnayder, Susan (author), Willcox, Adam (author), Bates, Gary (author), Boyer, Christopher N. (author), and Center for Native Grasslands Management Human Dimensions Research Lab University of Tennessee
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-12
- Published:
- United States: Extension Journal, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11232
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 57(6)
- Notes:
- 10 pages, via online journal, Adoption of native warm-season grasses (NWSGs) in the tall fescue belt is limited despite studies documenting the potential contribution of these forages to profitable beef production. On the basis of two surveys conducted in Tennessee, a survey of beef producers and a survey of agricultural professionals, we evaluated perceptions of NWSG forages and how those perceptions could influence their adoption. Although agricultural professionals were more familiar with NWSGs than producers, both populations had limited knowledge regarding these forages, indicating that additional Extension education is needed. Our results provide useful guidance for developing NWSG forage educational programs for producers and agricultural professionals.
5. Natural resources conflicts
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kennedy, Joan (author) and Vining, Joanne (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10678
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Sustainable Forestry
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(4): 23-50
- Notes:
- 29 pages., via online journal., Managers’ emotions play a significant role in natural resource decision-making processes relative to conflict. Although conflict and emotion are present in many aspects of most resource managers’ careers, the role of the primary decision maker’s emotions in natural resources decision-making processes is neither well understood, nor well documented. The ideas presented in this article derive from a literature review and an independent four-year qualitative study of the USDA Forest Service. The major finding of the study was that natural resources managers’ emotions do indeed have an influence on their decisionmaking processes and in conflict situations. Furthermore, communication is a component of decision making; conflict is a component of decision making; and communication is a component of conflict. The authors review the literature in neuroscience and psychology on emotion and conflict. We explain how this information is important to any decision making process, and then relate emotions and decision making to conflict at the USDA FS. We offer insights and suggestions as to how managers
6. Overcoming disciplinary divides in higher education: the case of agricultural economics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ng, Desmond (author) and Litzenberg, Kerry (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- palgrave macmillan LTD
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10366
- Journal Title:
- Palgrave Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 5
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Article 26, Via online journal., As global problems have become ever more complex, the production and organization of knowledge in society is increasingly based on the sharing, integration and collaboration of diverse experiences. For instance, global ‘grand challenges’, such as world hunger, poverty, climate change, and sustainability often require an interdisciplinary (ID) approach, in which integrating the insights of different disciplines provides a more comprehensive solution than can be offered by any given discipline. Universities or higher educational institutions face increasing pressures to engage in such interdisciplinary collaboration. This interdisciplinarity, however, raises particular organizational challenges to departments in higher educational institutions. In particular, while departments have been traditionally organized around a disciplinary core, interdisciplinarity has placed increasing pressures on departments, such as agricultural economics, to integrate insights from disciplines that do not advance a department’s disciplinary core. Few ID researchers have addressed the issue of how this internal conflict can be resolved in a departmental setting. Resolving this internal conflict is important to developing a greater interdisciplinarity among the disciplines of departmental units where a greater variety of disciplinary insights can be drawn upon to solve complex social problems. Here, we call for a unique organizational structure that can resolve this internal conflict. In using agricultural economics departments as a case study, we appeal to a concept of a “gatekeeper” whose role is to institute “loosely coupled” connections that can reconcile a department’s internal conflicts. This “gatekeeper” can advance the “normal science” of a department’s core and peripheral disciplines, while at the same time support a ‘common ground’ that appeals to these disciplines’ common interests. A key conclusion is that “gatekeepers” can sustain the integration of disciplinary insights necessary for the advancement of interdisciplinarity in higher educational institutions.
7. USDA calls scientist gag order a “misunderstanding”
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Maron, Dina Fine (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-25
- Published:
- Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 34 Document Number: D10671
- Notes:
- 4 pages., via Scientific American website., Hours after the news broke that the U.S. Department of Agriculture e-mailed its scientists ordering them not to speak to the press, and informing them that there would be an immediate halt on press releases, the USDA insisted it isn’t really suppressing its researchers’ communications with the public—because they can still publish peer-reviewed journal articles or give media interviews if the agency approves them.