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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2005

January/February/March - 280kb, 4 pages

  • New UW-Extension tagline: Learning for life
  • UW-Extension explores its role in public controversy
  • Communicating UW-Extension's value is everyone's job
  • Partnership to benefit small businesses and Wisconsin's economy
  • Phil Corriveau named director of Wisconsin Public Radio
  • Regent Axtell staunchly supports UW-Extension's role
  • Cooperative Extension moves toward a responsibility-based culture

April/May/June - 4 pages - 360KB

  • Access to higher education enhanced by integration
  • UW Colleges at a glance
  • Free document-accessibility training available
  • National Outreach Scholarship Conference Oct. 2-4, 2005
  • School for Workers celebrates 80 years of labor education
  • Faculty and staff receive recognition for outstanding work
  • PeerSpectives helps small businesses prosper
  • New Agricultural Innovation Center supports value-added enterprises

summer - 384KB-4 pages

  • Committees work to integrate administrations, recruit chancellor
  • Your invitation to the UW-Extension Annual Awards banquet
  • Open communication creates trust
  • Schultz named secretary of the faculty and academic staff
  • Academic Staff Council election results
  • Milwaukee County Family Living Program to fill a need with new effective black parenting training
  • Certificate aids health-care administrators
  • Taking a new look at status of women at UW-Extension
  • Candidates sought for Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program
  • UW-Extension Web site MAKEOVER

Fall - 396 KB - 4 pages

  • UW-Extension hosts regents in Washington County
  • Annual Awards honor outstanding work and commitment
  • Regents embrace enhanced access via a single institution
  • You can help UW-Extension reach just a bit further
  • WGNHS opens new geologic repository
  • Summer internship program prepares students for careers
  • Instructional Communications Systems: 40 years and forward
  • The best learning experience ever