Virtual Notebook - Volume 1

New Director/Administrator Orientation
September 24, 2001
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

1. Organization and Relationships - Darrell Nelson, Director, University of Nebraska
  1. USDA
  2. NASULGC
  3. COPS
  4. Regional Associations
  5. Other

Appendices:
Glossary of terms
Acronyms
Useful URLs

2. Budgets:

National Budget: Nuts and Bolts - Fred Cholick, Chair-Elect, ESCOP Budget and Legislative Committee and Dean, South Dakota State University;

CSREES Budget Process - Christina Buch, Director of Budget, CSREES

  1. OMB (Executive Budget)
  2. Role of Congress
  3. USDA (CSREES, ARS, NRCS, NAL, ESS, etc.)
  4. Other Federal Agencies (NSF, NIH, EPA, etc.)
  5. Advocacy Efforts (NASULGC, CFAR, BAA, AESOP, etc.)
  6. Questions and Answers

Appendix -Budget Schedule
3. Reporting Requirements/Timing - Tom Helms, Executive Director, Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
  1. SAES
  2. USDA
  3. Multistate Research Project Portfolios and Management; Guidelines for Multistate Research Activities
  4. National Information Management Support System (NIMSS) - Rubie Mize, Assistant to the Director, Northeast Regional Association of Experiment Station Directors
  5. Questions and Answers
4. Experiences of a Director-in-Action:

Paul Rasmussen, Associate Dean, Utah State University
Richard Jones, Dean for Research, University of Florida
Robert Barney, Associate Research Director, Kentucky State University (Presented by Daryl Lund)

  1. Clientele groups
  2. Legislators and Congressional Staff
  3. Internal Politics of University Life
  4. State Funding Initiatives
  5. Commodity Group Relationships
  6. Other
  7. Questions and Answers
5. Farm Bill - David MacKenzie, Executive Director, Northeastern Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, ESCOP Represenative to the Board on Agriculture Farm Bill Task Force
6. Cooperative Research Agreements and Intellectual Property Rights - David MacKenzie, Executive Director, Northeastern Regional Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors

Speaker Bios

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