Goals and Expectations

The joint committee discussed goals and expectations of future joint planning activities. The following are various points and questions that were raised during this discussion.

• We should do both Futuring and short-term planning of priorities
• Should involve stakeholders and other external constituents
• Move toward developing a joint initiative(s) for BOA budget 2-3 years in future
• Change is occurring so fast, planning time frame is compressed
• Professional societies are dealing with many of these issues. Should they have input into our process?
• Some areas are being led by industry (GMO's) - what is our role?
• Need to produce a tangible product for the system out of our joint planning
• What is occurring in system across 5 national goals in research and extension?
• May be able to use POW's to glean planned programs from across system in research and extension
• This joint committee or a subgroup could facilitate gaining this information from the POW's (Eric Young will work with George Cooper to see if this is feasible)
• Most immediate need is to choose one area/issue and focus 5-10 years down road and produce an output/statement to system
• Research and extension should be fundamentally linked and working together, but not become one entity
• How should research and extension be linked and working together in future?
• Can't be all things to all people, but how can we focus on those issues that really matter?
• Current five national goals may change, so we don't want to restrict ourselves to that framework.

Topics for Future Meetings

Numerous potential topics for future joint planning activities were suggested and discussed. The joint committee decided that for our next meeting we should focus on a topic that still had broad programmatic and operational implications and that may lead into a more narrow topic for future meetings. It was decided that the following topic would be the focus of our first joint planning session in early February.

Recent futuring studies of the Land-Grant University System

• Choose a few prominent futuring documents to review
• Everyone will read each document
• Subgroups will do an in-depth review and present that to the large group to begin discussion
• Subject matter area(s) will be chosen to focus discussions relative to futuring documents

• Kellogg - "Engaged Institution" - *Dalton McAfee, Henry Allen, Virginia Clark, George Cooper
• CAST - "Conversation on Change" - *Sam Donald, Lyla Houglum, Gladys Gary Vaughn, P.S. Benepal
• FSPEI - Food System Professional Education Initiative - *Ted Alter, Dick Heimsch, Jim Christenson, Jim Carlson, Dan Kugler
• NRC - Colleges of Agriculture study - *Jim Fisher, Nancy Bull, Jon Ort, Al Parks
• Dr. Myers reports on Future of Land-Grant colleges with Their Roots in Agriculture - *Mike Chippendale, Terry Meisenbach, Eric Young, Myron Johnsrud

Conceptual Framework for Joint Planning Session

• Document Subgroups will give summary of futuring reports
• Discussion will center around the following questions relative to each report:
• What are implications of the report on how research/extension will operate in the future?
• How will this shape how research and extension addresses some key issues areas (see issue areas below)?

• Sustainable agriculture
• Food safety and quality
• Environmental impacts and land use
• Community and family development

• Ted Alder and Dan Kugler will both contact potential facilitators and get availability and costs
• Eric Young, Jon Ort, George Cooper, and the five document subgroups chairs will be the program committee for developing the agenda and program details
• Jon and Eric will set up a conference call with document subgroups chairs
• George Cooper, Eric Young, and Jon Ort will do local arrangements, with George's office providing support

NEXT MEETING

February 2-4, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada

ECOP/ESCOP Joint Planning Committee
10/1/99

Attendees:
Mike Chippendale, Univ. Missouri, chippendalem@missouri.edu
Myron Johnsrud, NASULGC, mjohnsrud@nasulgc.org
Dalton McAfee, NCA&T State Univ., daltenm@a&t.edu
Lyla Houglum, Oregon State Univ., lyla.houglum@orst.edu
Dick Heimsch ,Univ. of Idaho, agres@uidaho.edu
Virginia Clark, North Dakota State Univ., vclark@badlands.nodakota.edu
Jim Carlson, Washington State Univ., carlsonj@wsu.edu
Jim Fischer, Clemson Univ., Jfschr@clemson.edu
Jim Christenson, Univ. Of Arizona, jimc@ag.arizona.edu
Sam Donald, ARD/1890's, Sldonald@mail.umes.edu
P. S. Benepal, Virginia State Univ., Benepalps@aol.com
Gladys Gary Vaughn, CSREES/USDA, gvaughn@reeusda.gov
Henry Allen, Michigan State Univ., Allenh@msue.msu.edu
Alfred L. Parks, Prairie View A&M Univ., Alfred_parks@pvamu.edu
Dan Kugler, CSREES/USDA, dkugler@reeusda.gov
Nancy Bull, Univ. Of Connecticut, nancy.bull@uconn.edu
Terry Meisenbach, CSREES/USDA, tmeisenbach@reeusda.gov
Ted Alter, Penn. State Univ., Talter@psu.edu
George Cooper, CSREES/USDA, gcooper@reeusda.gov
Eric Young, NC State Univ., Eric_young@ncsu.edu
Jon Ort, NC State Univ., Jon_ort@ncsu.edu

Members not present -
Henry Bahn, CSREES/USDA, hbahn@reeusda.gov
Jack Coster, West Virginia Univ., Jcoster@wvu.edu
Allen Dedrick, ARS/USDA, Ard@ars.usda.gov
Don Latham, CARET, Lathamde@fiai.net
Edwin Price, ICOP, Ec-price@tamu.edu
Jim Stewart, Univ. of New Hampshire, james.stewart@unh.edu
Susan Welsch, CSREES/USDA, swelsh@reeusda.gov