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Nayak, Roshan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the wake of multistate outbreaks and subsequent economic cost and health causalities, food industry stakeholders formulated policies for their produce suppliers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's guidance on Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) have been the basis for most of the industry initiated GAP certifications or audit processes. In…
Descriptors: Food, Agriculture, Food Standards, Program Implementation
Sorber, Nathan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation examines the formation, reformation, and standardization of land-grant colleges in the Northeastern United States during the last four decades of the nineteenth century. It is a history that explores the turbulent origins of land-grant colleges in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont,…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Educational History, United States History, College Curriculum
Focht, John D. – Extension Service Review, 1971
Descriptors: Bulletins, Environmental Education, Rural Extension
Alexander, Frank D.; Harshaw, Jean – 1964
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the nature and amount of inservice training which the 168 agricultural agents in New York State received during 1963. Emphasis was on refresher and other training. The greatest number of days of training offered agents was in November followed closely by March and February, in all, a total of 36% of the…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Inservice Education, Orientation, Refresher Courses
Anderson, Martin G. – 1969
Early MIDNY Project efforts (1966) included work with County Extension staff in three Central New York counties (including Madison) to encourage establishment of county planning organizations to cope with local change problems and enable counties to obtain maximum benefit from regional planning efforts. This was done in Madison County through an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Planning, Economics, Organizations (Groups)
Douglas, Leonard Carl – 1966
The study defined and tested a model, based on pertinent Cooperative Extension Service literature, that was meant to project changes in present educational audiences well enough to predict educational needs, and would identify new audiences in the early stages and derive implications for the institution and its programs. Ninety-seven farm…
Descriptors: Audiences, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs, Environmental Influences
Alexander, Frank D. – 1968
An evaluation study of the Family Service Program of the Essex County (New York) Division of Home Economics is focused on the third series of lessons; the purposes of the study were to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the indigenous program aides and the participants and to show the influence of training for teaching this series of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Family Life Education, Family Problems, Indigenous Personnel
Alexander, Frank D. – 1969
Based on criteria drawn from a policy and functions statement, an evaluation was made of activities from 1956 to 1968 by the Office of Extension Studies (OES), a research unit attached to the Office of the Director of New York Cooperative Extension. Formulated in 1958, the statement covers the nature of Extension studies, planning principles for…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bibliographies, Budgeting, Evaluation Criteria
Findlay, E. Weldon – 1969
A study was made of 200 Cooperative Extension Service workers in New York State to identify appropriate curriculum content for training professional leaders in extension education. The critical incident method was used to discover behavior patterns characteristic of professional extension agents and of key importance in their work. Respondents…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Critical Incidents Method, Curriculum Development
ALEXANDER, FRANK D. – 1966
TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS RELATED TO FIRST-YEAR 4-H LEADERS' CONTINUING IN OR DROPPING OUT OF 4-H WORK AND TO ANALYZE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CHARACTERISTICS OF A SAMPLE OF FIRST-YEAR 4-H LEADERS AND THE EVALUATION BY THEIR 4-H AGENTS OF JOBS PERFORMED AND NOT PERFORMED, IN 1961 QUESTIONNAIRES AND PERSONALITY TESTS WERE GIVEN TO 527 FIRST-YEAR 4-H…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Extension Agents, Job Analysis, Leadership Training
Dunbar, Mary Elizabeth – 1968
This research was to determine the relationship between New York State Cooperative Extension 4-H Division Leaders' propensity toward delegation of work responsibility and (1) their degree of involvement in the performance of leader identification and selection tasks, (2) assignment of major responsibility for these tasks, and (3) other selected…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Extension Agents, Identification, Leadership Responsibility
Burns, Derwood G. – 1969
Agricultural extension sometimes fails to relate itself to the total socio-economic picture of the community as it establishes policies and programs for the future; this research attempts to explain some concerns of farmers related to this problem, particularly the hiring of regional specialists. Data were gathered by a questionnaire given to over…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Business, Community Leaders
Alexander, Frank D. – 1968
The study aimed at describing the characteristics of a sample of home demonstration units in Onondaga County; testing the effectiveness of the teaching of a selected project; relating characteristics of the units to the learning of the participants; comparing characteristics of project leaders, trained teachers, and members of the unit; and…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstrations (Educational), Extension Agents, Home Economics Education
Findlay, Edward Weldon – 1969
The study is based on the premise that if one is able to identify the areas of behavior in which professionals require competence, one can link this behavior to a related structure of concepts which may serve as logical teaching and learning objectives in the development of training programs. A sample of 211 extension agents (in agriculture, home…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Concept Formation
Hahn, Alan J. – 1970
This is an account of the first three years of the MIDNY Project, a pilot community resource development project in the five-county Central New York Region surrounding the city of Syracuse. The project was set up in 1966 by New York State Cooperative Extension with special funds provided by the Federal Extension Service. It was one of the first…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Development, Decision Making, Extension Agents
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