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S. Dee Jepsen; Laura Akgerman; Karen Funkenbusch; Jessie Calero; Heather Kelejian – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2022
Providing accessible learning opportunities and inclusive programs are critical to Extension's mission. Creating inclusive environments is more than consideration for individuals' personal identity. Using principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) is an approach to intentionally build community and create new…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Program Descriptions, Community Needs, Agricultural Occupations
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Matthews, Yvonne; Bradley, Ernest – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2011
Lincoln University was founded in 1866 by the men of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantries and their white officers for the special benefit of freed African Americans. Today, Lincoln University's role in the education of Missourians and others, and its service throughout the state, the nation, and across the globe, are…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Black Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Males
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Allen, Kim; Gudino, Alejandra; Crawford, Christina – Journal of Extension, 2011
Extension has long been successful at recruiting and serving diverse audiences, and with the rapid growth of Latino families across the United States, many Extension professionals are discovering an increased need to recruit and serve Latinos. This article shares successful recruitment strategies incorporated in a project that recruited low-income…
Descriptors: Family Life Education, Hispanic Americans, Recruitment, Low Income Groups
Wilcox, R. K.; Garlich, Roger A. – 1979
The document contains the final performance report of an outreach project designed to stimulate and develop increased specialized services for children, 0 to 4 years old, who have handicaps and who reside in the rural counties of Missouri and to demonstrate the efficacy of utilizing a state university extension service as a model of outreach…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Extension Education, Models
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Gassaway, Bob M. – Journal of Extension, 1978
To strengthen extension programs in the six-county Meramec area of Missouri, the University of Missouri extension staff used Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds to train people to survey area rural residents, to provide jobs for CETA workers, and to present extension programs to residents, meshing extension and CETA programs.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Programs, Extension Education
Lasley, Paul, Comp.; And Others – 1986
The 12 states comprising the North Central Region have been affected in similar ways by the farm crisis of the 1980s. Statewide surveys show sizeable proportions of farm operations that are experiencing moderately high levels of financial stress. The problems caused by chronic stress on family structure and functioning, the loss of mainstreet…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Action, Community Problems, Economic Status