scholarly journals Farmer’s Market, Demonstration Gardens, and Research Projects Expand Outreach of Extension Master Gardeners

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-415
Author(s):  
Pamela J. Bennett ◽  
Ellen M. Bauske ◽  
Alison Stoven O’Connor ◽  
Jean Reeder ◽  
Carol Busch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Extension Agents ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Extension Programs ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Program Leader ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
American Society ◽  
The University

Extension Master Gardener (EMG) volunteers are central to expanding the outreach and engagement of extension staff. A workshop format was used at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science on 31 July 2012 in Miami, FL to identify successful management techniques and projects that expand EMG volunteer outreach, leading to increased extension effectiveness. One program leader described how EMGs manage a farmer’s market that has been thriving for more than 30 years, generating income for the EMG program as well as the county extension office. Another program leader described a beneficial partnership between EMGs and the university in which EMGs grow plants for demonstration gardens and classroom use, facilitating learning for university students, EMGs, and the public. EMGs in another program have assumed much of the management role of the university orchard, using it for teaching and demonstrations. The final discussion focused on extension programs that used volunteers to assist in conducting research to expand extension’s capabilities, and also increasing EMGs’ understanding of the research process. All projects emphasized the need for extension agents to empower volunteers to take on leadership and decision-making roles as well as the value of EMGs to extension.

scholarly journals Consumer Horticulture Outreach: Communication Challenges and Solutions

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-269
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Bauske ◽  
Gary R. Bachman ◽  
Lucy Bradley ◽  
Karen Jeannette ◽  
Alison Stoven O’Connor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Extension Agents ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
The North ◽  
Social Media Site ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
American Society

Communication is a critical issue for consumer horticulture specialists and extension agents. They must communicate effectively with the public interested in gardening, with Extension Master Gardener (EMG) volunteers and with other scientists. A workshop was held at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science on 22 July 2013 in Palm Desert, CA, with the intent of sharing tips and techniques that facilitated consumer horticulture and EMG programming. Presentations focused on communication. One program leader reported on the North Carolina Master Gardener web site, which integrates an online volunteer management system (VMS) with widely available web tools to create one-stop shopping for people who want to volunteer, get help from volunteers, or support volunteers at both the county and state level. Another program used the state VMS to house videos providing continuing education (CE) training required for EMG volunteers. This training is available 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. Agents created the videos by recording live presentations with widely available, screen capture software and a microphone. Features that make the social media site Pinterest a strong tool for gathering together focused programming resources and professional collaboration were outlined. Finally, the use of a compact, subirrigated gardening system that uses peat-based potting mix was suggested as a means to simplify communication with new urban gardeners and address their unique gardening issues.

scholarly journals How to make Music Research Open?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Refsum Jensenius ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time And Motion ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
Event Based ◽  
The University

In this episode, we talk about Music Research, and how it is to practice open research within this field. Our guest is Alexander Jensenius, Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (IMV) at the University of Oslo. He is also behind MusicLAb, an event-based project where data is collected, during a musical performance, and analyzed on the fly. The aim of MusicLab is to explore new methods for conducting research, research communication, and education. Rather than keeping the entire research process closed, MusicLab wants to share the data with the public, and show how it can be analyzed. The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh. This episode was first published 27 December 2019.

Religion and the Modern American University, 1910-1928

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Kemeny
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
National Interests ◽  
American University ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Society ◽  
Mainline Protestantism ◽  
The University

Princeton, read a trustees’ report in January 1927, “has always recognized a dual obligation to its undergraduates.” One side of this commitment involved providing “a curriculum which will meet the needs of a modern university” and the other involved creating within students “those spiritual values which make for the building of character.” Wilson had reshaped Princeton into a modern university and had left as his legacy an unyielding commitment to serving national interests. Undergraduate education, graduate training, and a variety of impressive specialized research programs enabled the university to help meet the nation’s need for liberal, civic-minded leaders and the demand for science and practical technology. Wilson and his successors in early-twentieth-century Princeton continued to insist, like their nineteenth-century predecessors, that Protestantism was indispensable to the public good and that civic institutions, such as Princeton, served public interests when they sought to inculcate students with a nonsectarian Protestant faith. In this way, the university, they believed, helped mainline Protestantism play a unifying and integrative role in a nation of increasing cultural and religious diversity. By doing so, they reasoned, Princeton, like other private colleges and universities, would maintain its historic religious mission to advance the Christian character of American society. During the presidency of Wilson’s successor, John G. Hibben, controversies challenged the new configuration of Princeton’s Protestant and civic missions. These controversies, however, helped to strengthen the new ways in which the university attempted to fulfill its religious mission in the twentieth century. In liberal Protestantism, the university found a religion that was compatible with modern science and the public mission of the university. Those traditional evangelical convictions and practices that had survived Wilson’s presidency were disestablished during Hibben’s tenure. Fundamentalists’ criticisms of the university hastened this process in two ways. Sometimes fundamentalist attacks upon the university convinced the administration to adopt policies that guaranteed the displacement of traditional evangelical convictions and practices. This was the case, for example, when fundamentalists’ condemnations of the theological liberalism of the university’s Bible professor accelerated the administration’s approval of a policy of academic freedom.

scholarly journals Design, Strategy, and Collaboration: a System an Alternative for Reusing Waste From the Bespoke Furniture Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
Viviane G. A. NUNES ◽  
Júlia S. ABRÃO
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Value Perception ◽  
Strategic Design ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
The University

This work describes the proposal of a collaborative inter-organizational network involving different actors operating as a group. The aim was to reuse the waste generated by the custom-made furniture sector, which is very relevant in Brazil. The presented scenario is the city of Uberlandia/MG/Brazil, a medium-sized city, which produces about 30.000m3/year of furniture production waste. The proposed collaborative network involves a furniture micro-enterprise, a primary public school, and a federal University, with the coordination of the last one, linked by design concepts. The theoretical references are based on the building of inter-organizational collaborative networks, Strategic Design, and Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability. The research methodology was based on an action-research process, and the methods were divided into a literature review, case studies, data collection and the development of new and small products. The obtained results are related to the value perception of collaboration among actors and the importance of continuous social innovation practices but also of technological ones. This confirms the feasibility of absorption of new practices into the daily operations both in the microenterprise and the public school as well within the university, as a way of increasing the positive impacts coming from these initiatives and a chance of scaling up the project.

Analysis of Residential Horticultural Questions Answered by Master Gardeners

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 502d-502
Author(s):  
Larkin Sinnott ◽  
Paula Diane Relf
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Tech ◽  
The State ◽  
Soil Testing ◽  
Extension Programs ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Electronic Resource ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
Species Type ◽  
E Mail

An analysis of commonly asked horticultural questions is being conducted by the Office of Environmental Horticulture at Virginia Tech in order to improve the question and answer process between Master Gardeners and the public. Records of questions received by Master Gardeners from a sampling of Extension offices representing all growing areas of the state are being sorted and categorized to identify the most frequently asked questions and develop a electronic resource to assist in answering those questions quickly and with consistent IPM based information. More than 4000 questions have been analyzed and organized in to the following categories: Plant Questions (specific type or species of plant), General Gardening Questions (composting and fertilizing, herbicides and pesticides, soil testing etc.), Program Questions (Extension programs, Master Gardener program), and Animal and Insect Questions. The plants questions have been further divided into the sub-categories. The animal and insect questions have been sorted by species type with the percentage asked of each calculated. This information is posted on a web site and is linked to additional resources for answers. The address is www.hort.vt.edu/mastergardener/Q&A.html. The site contains useful information, links, and opportunities for feedback via e-mail.

scholarly journals Planting Seeds of Victory: Creating Shared Meaning while Gardening amidst a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Emma Cannon ◽  
Chandler Mulvaney ◽  
Erin Harlow ◽  
Tiare Silvasy ◽  
LuAnn Duncan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Extension Agents ◽  
Extension Programs ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
Feeding America ◽  
The University ◽  
Learning Options ◽  
Columbia County

The Victory2020 Garden Community Program was established by faculty members within the University of Florida (UF), Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) in Marion and Columbia County Extension offices. In response to COVID-19, the purpose of the program was to provide online-mediated programs that could be completed at the desired pace of the participants, while promoting a self-reliant, science-based approach to learning about home food production through gardening. Due to food insecurity rates in both Marion (14.4%) and Columbia (15.2%) counties ranking above the statewide average in Florida, an immediate need to provide educational resources on becoming self-sufficient in growing one’s own food became increasingly important due to nationwide supply-chain shortages (Feeding America, 2020). 2,548 participants representing 43 states and six countries were provided access to eight learning modules hosted by Canvas, an online tool through UF. Participants were provided a package of free seeds, including corn, squash, cucumber, and cowpea to plant their Victory2020 Garden. A purposeful online community was established by extension agents in Marion and Columbia counties to facilitate quality discussion and growth, culminating in over 225,000 total impressions. The findings of the program revealed that 88% of gardening households began eating more fruits and vegetables while 73% are embracing new food safety techniques in both the garden and kitchen. Primary investigators and co-pi's recommend an implementation of a program timeline to benefit the participants through diverse, online learning options. Continued programming addressing mental health, nutrition, and gardening is recommended across extension programs nationally.

scholarly journals University faculty motivation to students’ distant evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18071
Author(s):  
Tatiana Isaeva ◽  
Natalia Malishevskaya ◽  
Lyubov’ Cherkasova ◽  
Al’vina Kolesnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Faculty Motivation ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
High Motivation ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University

During the period of remote learning in Russia, caused by measures to combat coronavirus infection in 2020, many university professors realized that dissatisfaction with the quality of their teaching activities, the teaching methods and the conditions in education was carried out, significantly reduced their motivation to teaching activity. The analysis of scientific literature showed that there is a lack of research on the motivation of university faculty, which is explained by the public attitude towards the initially high motivation of professors and the lack of methodological tools for conducting research. We used the following research methods: competence-based and system-activity approaches, as well as several theories of motivation developed by Russian and foreign scientists. Realizing that faculty motivation is one of the main factors that can ensure high quality education through the introduction of advanced teaching technologies, the article presents the results of an empirical study that made it possible to determine four main groups of negative factors that affect faculty motivation to carry out distant evaluation of the students. The recommendations are formulated for the university faculty, educational and methodological departments and administration of universities, which can contribute to the growth or maintenance of the faculty motivation both in “face-to-face” and distant educational process.

“Going Public”: Accessing Data, Contesting Information Blockades

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Piché
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Going Public ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Penal Institutions ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
The University ◽  
And Diffusion

Among prison scholars it is well known that access to penal institutions for the purposes of conducting research is not a given. For instance, in the Canadian context, some social researchers have been effectively barred from conducting studies inside prisons or have had to modify their research designs in order to enter the carceral. The ability to obtain unpublished records on imprisonment policies and practices in Canada has also been cited as a cumbersome process that often results in non-disclosure of the documents sought.Beyond data collection, social researchers have also raised concerns about the challenges of communicating their findings to publics outside the academy. In criminology, in particular, scholars have been concerned with the perceived lack of influence academic work has had on public policy and public opinion. These interventions, while not novel, have resulted in calls for a public criminology, renewing a discussion on how to disseminate research to non-academic audiences.Although much of the access to information literature is focused on the techniques used to obtain data as well as the barriers encountered during the process, and the public criminology literature is centred principally around the question of how to reach and influence those outside the halls of the university, few have examined how data collection and dissemination activities shape subsequent information flows. Here, I am not referring to the moments when and sites where the “policing of criminological knowledge” occur that mediate access to data sources and diffusion opportunities based on the epistemological orientations and political agendas of gatekeepers.

scholarly journals Enhancing Consumer Horticulture’s Millennial Outreach: Social Media, Retail, and Public Garden Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 642-649
Author(s):  
Esther McGinnis ◽  
Alicia Rihn ◽  
Natalie Bumgarner ◽  
Sarada Krishnan ◽  
Jourdan Cole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
Media Presentation ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Public Garden ◽  
American Society

The millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1996, is the largest demographic age group in the United States. This generation of plant enthusiasts has experienced financial setbacks; nevertheless, they collectively wield immense economic power. In 2018, this generation made one-quarter of all horticulture purchases. Consumer horticulture (CH) is challenged to develop targeted programming and outreach methods to connect with this influential and information-hungry generation. To examine the possibilities, the CH and Master Gardener Professional Interest Group held a workshop on 23 July 2019, in Las Vegas, NV, at the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) annual conference. The workshop first actively engaged participants to build points of connection by discussing nontraditional terminology that resonates with younger audiences. Suggested terminology included plant parent, plant enthusiast, plant babies, apartment-friendly, sustainable, and urban agriculture. After the opening discussion, three presentations explored innovative content, marketing and outreach in the areas of social media, retail promotions, and public gardens. The social media presentation focused on building a two-way partnership with millennials on Instagram that emphasized shared values of sustainability, local foods, and wellness. During the second presentation, the speaker highlighted retail point-of-sale promotions that appeal to younger audiences. The final presentation described creative programming used by botanical gardens to engage younger visitors. A facilitated discussion followed the presentations to identify and evaluate techniques and content that could be incorporated into CH research, teaching, and extension to reach and interact with new millennial audiences. Based on the workshop presentations and the facilitated discussions, the ASHS CH and Master Gardener Professional Interest Group concluded that more CH professionals should engage in social media outreach tailored to the needs and preferences of younger generations. To support this valuable outreach, research of consumer behavior and retail marketing should be encouraged to identify the preferred terminology and subject matter that appeal to millennials. Finally, CH can learn from and partner with public gardens as they implement multidisciplinary programming and exhibitions.

“Come, Let Us Reason Together”: New Research and the Public Good

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-677
Author(s):  
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Public ◽  
True Path ◽  
Education Today ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Research ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
The University

The university is the prophetic school out of which come the teachers who are to lead democracy in the true path. It is the university that must guide democracy into the new ields of arts and literature and science. It is the university that ights the battles of democracy, its warcry being: “Come, let us reason together.” (Harper 223)For our era, the ability to search and research—sorting, evaluating, verifying, analyzing, and synthesizing abundant information—is an incredibly valuable skill. With the advent of Twitter and fake news, as well as the digitization of vast archives made accessible for the irst time, these active learning skills should have a far larger role in higher education today. (Davidson 88)STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SHOULD MASTER RESEARCH TO SOLVE THE GREAT SOCIETAL PROBLEMS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Research—as Cathy N. Davidson succinctly defines it above—is one of many crucial topics in her compelling new book The New Education. Looking at the literature and data on American universities Davidson describes in her study, I venture that new research could contribute to the public good as long as research universities continue to advance democracy. Theoretical and practical notions of democracy, of course, have evolved remarkably since America's founding, oscillating between the ideological poles of “liberalism” and “illiberalism,” as some pundits have recently put it (Deneen 155–59). For the sense of American democracy anchoring my essay, I have in mind a “deliberative form of politics” that calls on “the demos to reflect upon itself and judge [the efforts of] laws, institutions, and leaders” to maintain the equality of social rights and privileges (Urbinati 16). The democratic prosperity of American society requires an increasingly diverse range of students to conduct new research on behalf of the intellectual and scholarly contributions of universities to the public good.

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