IMPORTANT REMINDER: The due date for APROL is February 1st and Civil Right
Audits are due on Feb.16th.
The CALS-MOC subgroup, Fair Community, has put together a Workload
Assessment Survey. The survey's purpose is to find out your perception of
how your time is spent on specific assignments. The information will be used
to analyze workload assignments to ensure a fair community within CALS. The
survey has been attached so that when you open APROL you can fill it out,
yet be anonymous and confidential. We'd like to encourage all who report
their APR's to please fill out the survey. If you've already submitted your
APR, please go back and fill out the survey. Your input is quite valuable.
Cooperative Extension Administration supports professional development
opportunities for all appointed personnel with Extension appointments.
Faculty with 100% Extension appointments are eligible for a maximum of $500
per year; the amount will be adjusted based on the Extension appointment
percentage. These funds may be used to support the attendance of specific
educational experiences or to attend professional meetings/events.
The deadline for signing up for the scholarship in-service is tomorrow,
January 28th. The program will be held February 11 from 10:00 - 3:00pm.
Please register at
http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/mployee/registration_inserv.htmel.
If you have not applied for professional development support this year (July
1, 2003 - June 30, 2004), we still have funds available. All requests must
be submitted in writing prior to the event. Include dates and estimated cost
of travel. All requests must have the approval of the appropriate county
director or department head prior to being sent to the associate director.
There is no carryover of funding from one fiscal year to the next. To make a
request, print out the Professional Development Travel form, get your county
director or department head to sign it, and send it to Deborah Young.
Does holding a drought workshop bring rain to Arizona? An excellent program
on the impacts of the drought on growers in central Arizona was enjoyed last
Wednesday. Speakers included representatives from local irrigation
districts, Central Arizona Project, Salt River Project, the Governor's
Drought Task Force, Paul Brown, and Tom Thompson. Thanks to Ed Martin for
putting together this workshop.
Approximate 60 faculty and program staff from across the state attended
"Creating a Respectful Youth Development Environment" in Camp Verde and
Tucson. I'd like to commend our presenters, Lisa Lauxman with Cooperative
Extension, Billye Foster (Professor, Agricultural Education), Bea Brown (UA
EEO Affirmative Action Office), and Bob Meadows (State 4-H Leader,
University of Virginia--via videotape and telephone). Thanks to Bill
Peterson who led the team and agents who helped with the planning
committee - Jan Norquest, Julie Adamcin and Mike Hauser.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
January 29 - La Paz County Cooperative Extension Field Day, 9:00-11:00am.
Two CEUs applied for Arizona and California. For more information, contact
Eric Norton (enorton@ag.arizona.edu) or link to
http://cals.arizona.edu/crops/counties/all/meetings/2004/compwkshp013004.htm
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January 30 - Hands on Computer Applications Workshop for Crops in Arizona,
Western College Vocational Center, 601 11th Ave., Parker, AZ, 9:00-12:00pm.
For more information, contact Eric Norton (enorton@ag.arizona.edu) or link
to
http://cals.arizona.edu/crops/counties/all/meetings/2004/compwkshp013004.htm
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February 4 - The 25th Annual SE AZ AgDay Willcox Community Center, 312 W.
Stewart St., Willcox. Three CEU's for holders of AZ Pesticide Licenses have
been applied for. For more information, contact Rob Call (520-384-3594 or
recall@ag.arizona.edu).