National Recogntion Submission Forms are Due March 1st
Thanks to the following Chapters for submitting your National Recognition Submission Form: Oregon, Texas, North Dakota, Georgia, Colorado, Alabama, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The National Recognition Submission Form has the names of those members being submitted for consideration for a recognition award at the regional or national level. The forms are due on March 1st so be sure to get your chapters form in so your members are included in this year’s recognition program. Also remember you still have until March 1st to apply for a recognition award or to nominate a deserving colleague for recognition for their efforts in Extenison Programs. See the article below for additional information.
ESP Recognition Submissions
Several of our chapters have been using the online system to determine chapter award recipients. Chapters should be submitting their nominations for the Friends of Extension and Distinguished Sevice Ruby nominations using the online system. In addition each chapter who has nominees for consideration for regional awards that are presented for Distinguished Serice Award, Continued Excellence, Mid Career Servce, Early Career Service, International Service, Visionary Leadership, Administrative Leadership, Distinguished Team, Diversity Multi-cultural - Individual and Diversity Multi-cultural Team must submit the National Recognition Submission Form which provides the National Office with the names of Chapter winners who are to be entered in regional competition. The deadline for submission of the National Recognition Submission Form is March 1. Make sure that your chapter's recipients will be included in the regional competition.
Thanks For Submitting Chapter Reports
A big thank you to all of the Chapters who submitted the Chapter Reports which will be used for the Chapter sharing session at the JCEP meetings that will be held in San Antonio, Texas on February 7-9, 2012. We received reports from 30 of the 42 Chapters which is up from last year's 28 reports. It was interesting to see the information provided by the Chapters. The type variety of excellent work that is being done by ESP Chapters on behalf of our members and the Extension system in general was good to see. If you are unable to attend the conference but would like to see what's is being done by ESP Chapters across the country, you can view the reports which have been posted on the ESP Website. They can be found by accessing the Reports menu item in the For More Information On menu or by following the link to Chapter Reports.
JCEP
Public Issues Leadership Development (PILD) Conference
April 16-18, 2012
Westin Alexandria, VA
Optional tours will be held on Sunday April 15th, with the conference beginning at 7:30 AM on Monday, April 16th with Breakfast and ending at the conclusion of Hill visits on Wednesday, April 18th.
We are excited to invite you to participate in the 2012 Public Issues Leadership Development (PILD) Conference. This year’s conference theme is ‘Cooperative Extension: Relevant Now and Beyond’, and will feature nationally recognized speakers in the general sessions and your colleagues in several breakout sessions.
Meet National Program Leaders, Visit Legislators on the Hill, Learn from your Colleagues, Network with your Association and others, and Grow professionally in this important area.
Learn more in the coming weeks at www.jcep.org
Conference Materials Now Online
To see the video of the keynote speakers and Concurrent Session materials that have been submitted follow the link below. The materials can always be found under the Resouce Tab on the homepage.
