*  Dine’ College administrators, faculty, and staff joined a dozen colleagues from the University of Arizona yesterday and today in a workshop on 1994 and 1862 Land Grant Colleges.  Gerald Moore presented a program about Extension on the Navajo Nation.  Partnerships in academic, research, and Extension programs, grants and directions were explored.

*  The National Riparian Service Team came to Payson September 10 and 11th to present "Proper Functioning Condition and Grazing Management for Riparian-Wetland Areas" to about sixty ranchers, agency personnel, and environmentalists.  This workshop was organized by Dr. Jim Sprinkle in cooperation with several other organizations. According to Wayne Elmore, NRST, "we have 2.5 million miles of streams in the United States not functioning as they should". Workshop participants learned how to analyze various components of riparian-wetland areas and rate them.  Thanks to Jim Sprinkle, Chris Jones, Jeff Schalau and Larry Howery for making this excellent workshop possible.
       
*  The Distributed Learning Team in the College, with funds from the College Administration, is issuing a request for proposals. The purpose of the program is to promote development of distributed learning projects, defined as learning that can be accessed by an audience at any time. Examples include teaching web sites (for credit or non-credit), interactive learning modules, animations for use in teaching, teaching-related CD-ROMs, videos, and other projects aimed at enhancing the college's distributed learning capacity. Projects funded by the grants may add to an existing project or may initiate a new project, but preference will be given to new projects and to people who have had limited experience in developing distributed learning projects.  Proposals will be accepted from any COA faculty or academic professional and are due November 1. Award announcements will be made by December 1, and funds must be expended by June 30, 2000, although the project can be completed any time in 2000. For further details see the RFP at: http://cals.arizona.edu/distributed_learning/rfp.html. RFP's have also been sent to each county director and each department head by James Knight, chairman of the Distributed Learning Team.

*  From the Office of the Administrator, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.  Charles W. Laughlin,  Administrator (claughlin@reeusda.gov).  CSREES UPDATE is available on the CSREES home page under "News and Information." CSREES home page URL: http://www.reeusda.gov To subscribe or unsubscribe to this publication, please send an e-mail

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CONTENTS- September 17, 1999
UPDATE...CSREES 
...Reuters, Yahoo! News Pick Up Farm Crisis Site Release 
...DC Hosts Health Works Training 
...Ag in the Classroom Conference Planning Begins 
...Stanton Leaves CSREES For New Post at Monsanto 
UPDATE...USDA 
...USDA Accepting Applications for Madigan Export Award 
UPDATE...PARTNERS 
...Partners Receive Course Redesign Awards 
...Youth At Risk Sustainability Study #2 on CYFERNet On Web 
...NERA Moves to New Quarters 
UPDATE...OPPORTUNITIES 
...AgrAbility Workshop Scheduled for October 5-8 
...1890 Environmental Grants Workshop 
...National Agricultural Awareness Conference--Momentum Growing 
...Reminder - 2nd National Small Farm Date Nears 
...Compost Facility Operators Training School 
...2000 Impact Submission Training Targets 1890 Institutions 
...Workforce Preparation Training for Northeast - November 19-20 
...Reminder: FY 2000 Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Request for 

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  Jim Christenson, Director 
Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture 
              Phone:  520/621-7209 
              FAX #:  520/621-1314 
          jimc@cals.arizona.edu 
     http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/ 
http://cals.arizona.edu/internal/director/jacindex.html 
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