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TopicsMay 23, 2023
- Message from the Associate Vice President and Director of Extension
- Arizona Cooperative Extension Annual Conference Poster Submissions
- WRRC Seminar: Homeowners Associations - An Overlooked Water Sustainability Opportunity in the Desert
- Help Arizona Solve Water Challenges - WRRC Annual Conference
- CCT Data Science Workshops
- Climate Science Working Group Needs Your Help
- Join the ALVSCE Staff Council
- Family, Consumer, and Health Sciences Agent Opening
- Collective Impact Working Group
- Website Redesign Survey
- Newsletter Training to the Rescue
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Message from the Associate Vice President
and Director of Extension
Over the past few weeks, I have been meeting with candidates for School Directors, Departments Heads, County Directors, County Agents, and Extension Specialists. With so many new people coming on board, we must work together to welcome these people and assist where and whenever we can. Drs. Patty Merk and Cathy Martinez are developing onboarding and orientation materials for County Faculty. Next week, the Extension Administration Council (EAC) will meet with Unit Specialists and discuss mentoring and onboarding of our State Specialists. I also had the honor to attend the UA AmeriCorps Recognition event last Wednesday. Thanks to everyone who put the virtual event together, the site supervisors, and the AmeriCorps members who have supported Extension over the past year.
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Submit a Poster!
Arizona Cooperative Extension Annual ConferenceAugust 2-4
The 2023 Annual Arizona Extension Conference will be August 2-4 in Tucson on the University of Arizona Main Campus. This year's conference theme is Building the Future of Extension Through Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration.
Poster Session Submissions - Posters can be on any Arizona Extension-related topic, including, but not limited to, community issues, extension initiatives, programs, or research projects. Posters presented at other conferences are eligible for display. Poster space is limited. Posters will be accepted in the order they are received until space capacity is reached. Click here to submit a poster. Provide the title, authors, a short (150-word maximum) abstract, the style (hanging vs. tabletop), and the approximate size of your poster. Deadline: July 3, 11:59 p.m. Your submission will be confirmed by Friday, July 7.
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WRRC Seminar Series: Homeowners AssociationsAn Overlooked Water Sustainability Opportunity in the Desert
Located in the Tucson Mountains, the Agua Dulce Homeowners Association has supported common-area water conservation and green stormwater infrastructure since 2015. To date, respective strategies have saved 4.6 million gallons of water and $19,000 relative to a 2016 baseline. Savings have been realized through landscape maintenance and careful management of our common area irrigation. In this WRRC webinar, Hans Huth will summarize strategies he has tested and the challenges faced in building landscape resiliency to the ongoing megadrought when working within a managed community.
What: Webinar - Homeowners Associations: An Overlooked Water Sustainability Opportunity in the Desert
When: Noon – 1:15 p.m. (Arizona Time), Thursday, June 1
Speaker: Hans Huth, UArizona MS Hydrology (1998); Agua Dulce HOA Water Harvesting Chair and Volunteer
Click here for more information.
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Limited Number of Free Registrations Available!
The 2023 Water Resources Research Center annual conference, What Can We Do? Solutions to Arizona’s Water Challenges, is your chance to join a conversation about solving water problems affecting all of us at home, at work, and in our communities. A limited number of cost-free registrations are available for UArizona Cooperative Extension faculty and staff (contact Jessie Hampton for more information). Free registrations are first come, first served, so register soon.
The conference is set for July 11–12 at the University of Arizona Student Union. The goal is to address pressing state, regional, and tribal water resource challenges by collectively coaxing out ideas that enhance water security. The two-day program will feature sessions on water quality, information gaps, farming practices, working with nature, adapting policy, growing the workforce, technology, and more. There will also be ample opportunity for networking to continue the solution-focused discussions of the conference. Keep an eye on our conference page as the agenda develops.
Early bird registration is $110 ($65 for one day), until June 14. Student registration is $30. A free, non-interactive livestream registration will be available soon. We hope to see many of you in Tucson this July!
Click here to become a conference sponsor.
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CCT Data Science Workshops
This three-part series will help you to unlock the full power of `ggplot2` functionality so you can create beautiful visualizations from start to finish without manual editing. You'll learn to plot multiple data sets, customize the appearance of your plots, and harness advanced features with ggplot2 extensions.
When: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., June 5, 12, 26 (Mondays)
Instructors: Jessica Guo, Eric Scott, Kristina Riemer
Location: Zoom
Registration: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Prerequisites: Recent versions of R and RStudio installed. Familiarity working with R and RStudio. Some familiarity with making plots using the `ggplot2` package in R (e.g., you've gone through Jeff Oliver's ggplot2 lesson).
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Climate Science Working Group Needs Your Help The Cooperative Extension Climate Science Working Group wants to know about the current level of interest and involvement in climate change-related training, programming, and collaboration within Extension. Your responses will be used to guide climate change program development and better integration of climate change information across Extension programs. Even if you feel that your role within Extension is not a “climate” role, we encourage you to submit a response.
The information will also help the UArizona Extension Climate Science Working Group leverage resources and opportunities to better serve Extension and Arizona stakeholders.
The survey's introduction page contains more information about confidentiality, how your responses will be used and stored, and your rights.
What: There are 27 quick, simple questions that should take 10 – 15 minutes to complete.
Who: You must work within Arizona Cooperative Extension, be 18 or older, and read English.
Click here to complete the survey. Please contact Dawn Gouge at dhgouge@arizona.edu or 602-418-5202 with questions or complaints about the study.
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Join the ALVSCE Staff CouncilNominate yourself or a colleague to join the ALVSCE Staff Council, where you can:
Represent – Be a part of Division Shared Governance by representing staff on pertinent issues, such as participating in Division budget meetings and College Committees that need the staff voice to be heard
Award Colleagues – Be part of the governing body for awarding (formerly) Outstanding Staff and Appointed Professionals awards. Participate in selection process, as requested, for Administrator of the Year, and Research Staff Award (for example).
Provide Policy Feedback– Participate and provide feedback on policies and procedures that impact University staff as requested by Division Leadership and/or initiated by the Council
Boost Communication – Be a channel of communications for distribution of information for staff
Enhance Networking – Provide networking and professional development experiences for staff
Have Fun, Build Culture – Host and organize fun, culture building events, such as the Halloween Potluck and Spring Ice Cream Social, for employee in the Division to connect with each other
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Family, Consumer, and Health Sciences Agent Opening Coconino County Cooperative Extension is seeking a Family, Consumer, and Health Sciences Agent. The position is posted as continuing eligible and applicants can hire at the Assistant or Associate Agent level depending on experience. The position will be based out of Flagstaff, Arizona. Please share the application link widely through your networks!
Click here for more information.
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Collective Impact Working Group Needs Volunteers
The Collective Impact state working group is developing a system to achieve long-term outcomes and capture our collective impacts for all programmatic areas in Arizona Extension. We are recruiting additional leadership from 4-H and ANR program areas to expand our efforts. Please contact Evelyn Whitmer to join our team or for more information.
Collective Impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change.
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Extension Website RedesignThe UArizona Cooperative Extension website is undergoing an overhaul. You can help guide the process by completing this 10-minute questionnaire.
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Newsletter Training to the RescueSummer is almost here, and apparently that means it’s newsletter season. We’ve been getting a lot of requests to start or revive old newsletters.
We are still finalizing the platforms that will be available to Extension faculty/staff at no charge, including the license request, onboarding, and training. But that doesn’t mean you can’t start making progress on your newsletter! We will be hosting and recording a virtual training on June 20, covering:
- If a newsletter will help you hit outreach goals
- How to create a content plan and management workflow
- How to adapt your newsletter content for social media, website and more to maximize the impact of your efforts
What: Newsletter virtual training session. Click here to attend. Registration is not required.
When: 10-11 a.m., June 20.
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