News and Ideas
Extension News and Ideas features articles and information about UW-Extension and extension activities carried out through the 26 UW System campuses and 72 Wisconsin counties.
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2001
January - 104K - 4 pages
- Economic summit plans for the new economy
- UW-Extension positioned to be a major player in the new economy
- Greater Wisconsin task force recommendations
- Wisconsin Public Television Garden Expo
- Regent Olivieri sees important economic development role for UW-Extension
- UW-Stevens point collaboration making central Wisconsin a stronger force in the new economy
- Ag biotech conference looks at tough questions
- New Wisconsin history series on WPT
- Thanks to SECC participants
February - 124K - 4 pages
- WPT Garden Expo brings a little bit of springtime to Wisconsin
- Multiculturalism the focus of program impacts workshop
- Program Impacts QA
- GWETC applications due March 17
- Home Garden Project builds communities
- Tech Tips-Viruses, hoaxes and legends, oh my!
- Virtual reading room promoes "book club" discussions
- Extension horticultural advice counts
- Career plannning tips on ETN Feb 12
March - 124K - 4 pages
- Local leaders prepare for large-scale animal production
- Internal communications survey online March 19-April 13
- Extension contributes to work-force development
- ICS provides live Web conferencing
- UW Day
- Friedrick Center takes on a north woods lodge look
- Hazardous materials incident training benefits company and county
- Educational programs and testing help keep well water safe
- "State Parks, State Treasures"
April - 500K - 4 pages
- Entrepreneur provides technology solutions for his community
- Reforging the Links
- UW Day demonstrates Extension's value to Wisconsin
- Conference looks at serving adult learners in a virtual world
- News and Ideas more easily accessible to visually impaired
- Technology roundup
- UW-Extension implements new information technologies
- New video bridge provides flexible videoconference options
May - 448K - 4 pages
- June 1 deadline for cross-divisional grant proposals
- Southwest Wisconsin partnership creates future leaders
- Message from the Chancellor
- Greg Hans joins Extension as director of business services/controller
- Kudos
- Tech tips - Pesky PDF's
- New GAC Web site will make it easy to locate training programs
- Artists learn the "business of art"
- Newly revised videoconferencing guide available
- Child-care providers get cutting-edge information on child development
- Hmong-language Web site offers training in small business and horticulture
June - 184K - 4 pages
- Brett leads WPT, Schnirring leads WPR
- SBDC and partners help build urban businesses
- Message from the Chancellor
- DPDI Awards announced
- Academic staff leadership changes
- Kids, families and caregivers benefit from partnerships
- Direct marketing puts more money in producers' pockets
- Regent Gottschalk sees Extension boundaries encompassing statewide
- economic development
- Epsilon Sigma Phi to raise funds for endowment
July/August - 296KB - 4 pages
- Commitment to excellence benefits Wisconsin's children
- Survey respondents give internal communications good grades Message from the Chancellor
- Kudos
- Faculty leadership changes
- Teen court justices hear peer cases
- WPT provides "Screen Smarts" family viewing guidelines
- Preissing named Northern District director
- Ward named interim director of Learning Innovations
- Training to make Extension Web sites accessible offered
- One-stop business center debuts
September - 240KB-4 pages
- Click! Redesigned Extension Web site to debut Oct. 1
- Team approach, putting research to work for Wisconsin agriculture
- Message from the Chancellor
- SEC provides chancellor with counsel and advice
- Extension sponsors summer internships
- Kudos
- AgrAbility finds ways to keep disabled farmers working
- UW-Extension leads national Web site accessibility project
- Farm Progress Days, Sept. 18-20, in Rock County
- Training course spurs tribal entrepreneurs
- IDEAS Portal Web Site: one online stop for Wisconsin educators
- Evaluation conference attracts participants from 17 extension services
October - 524KB - 4 pages
- Extension honors outstanding contributors
- Educational technology conference set for Oct. 29-31 in Green Bay
- Extension's work in tragedy's wake
- Chancellor Reilly approves accessibility policy
- Dual-choice health insurance informational session on Oct. 18
- Evolving the Links partners consider digital technology issues
- A participant's view: EALP prepares Extension's future leaders
- Canales honored as UW System Woman of Color
- Tornado in Burnett County
- SBDC helps businesses recover
- Cooperative Extension assists families and farmers
November - 520KB-4 pages
- Grandparents University sparks intergenerational learning
- UW-Extension prepares for Nov. 26-27 Economic Summit II in Milwaukee
- Chancellor Reilly reports on the latest developments in university outreach
- SECC: Now is the time for giving
- New roles and responsibilities
- Thirty-three-year volunteer counsels small businesses
- Joy of learning motivates retirees at UW-Milwaukee
- Paddling through time at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center
- ¿Ojibwe History¿ spotlights master storyteller
December - 176KB-4 pages
- Software trainers apply focus group research for business success
- Outreach scholarship offers national stage for engagement dialogue
- New opportunities for continuing education units
- Two new continuing education campus leaders
- KUDOS and GRANTS
- Parenting revisited: a generation removed
- Farming: the next generation
- Transferring a farm business to the next generation
- Gary Gilmore receives 2001 Regents Teaching Excellence Award
- WRLP travels south to explore ¿race¿ in America