Learning Opportunities

Join the National Extension Climate Initiative (NECI) for its next professional development webinar on February 5th, at 3 pm Eastern/2pm Central/1pm Mountain and 12 noon Pacific time. The webinar will be presented by Duane Friend, Climate Specialist with University of Illinois Extension, who collaborated with several faculty, curriculum creators, and animation specialists to create a short course called "Integrating Climate into Extension Programming."

No matter your age, learn valuable life lessons and get relevant, easy-to-understand tips for living an inspiring, healthy, and enriching life in this free webinar series. Register today! For more information or if you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this program, contact Samantha McLain at (217) 300-2525 or slangley@illinois.edu . Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet access needs. Inflation: How it Affects a Fixed-Income Budget February...

The early bird registration deadline for the JCEP Extension Leadership Conference is fast approaching—don’t miss out! Looking for a fun and educational way to kick off your ELC experience? Join us on Tuesday evening for the Dark History Tour of Savannah, a captivating walking tour exploring the city’s intriguing past. Please note that the tour requires a separate registration. The link and more details are on the JCEP website: https://www.jcep.org/elc . Register soon to secure your spot!

JCEP Announces Dates and Locations for 2025 Conferences! The Joint Council of Extension Professionals (JCEP) provides learning opportunities for Extension professionals. Mark your calendars for the 2025 conferences. ELC (Extension Leadership Conference) will be held February 19-20, 2025 in Savannah, GA. PILD (Public Issues Leadership Development) will be held April 7-9 in Arlington, VA, with April 9 reserved for Hill visits. Details will be posted at www.jcep.org

Supporting rural grocers in business transition planning is essential to keeping the benefits of hometown grocery stores in rural communities. The Rural Grocery Transition Specialist program trains and deploys resource professionals across the country to better serve rural grocers through these business transitions. The deadline to register for the spring 2025 offering of this course is January 20, 2025, so learn more and sign up today!

The 2025 JCEP Extension Leadership Conference proudly announces the following guest speakers! Find out more and register today at https://www.jcep.org/elc ! See you in Savannah!

Register for the 12/16 webinar here: https://go.rutgers.edu/ l5efrlxv Please join us on Monday, December 16, 2024, at 12:30 pm for the third webinar of our Consumer Food Waste Webinar series. This series is part of a USDA grant that Ohio State University and Rutgers Cooperative Extension received to create a national consumer food waste community of practice. This monthly webinar series showcases the efforts of Extension groups, university researchers, and leaders in the food and...

Are you using The Arts -- poetry, music, painting, etc. --in your extension programs. If so, please let Dave or Hiram know.

You are invited to consider publishing your extension work in a special collection on the topic of “Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Sustainable Agriculture.” This collection is co-hosted by Community Science Exchange, a highly innovative experiment in scientific publishing that elevates the types of community-focused work that extension professionals do.

Do you want to become a more effective leader, or teacher, or team member? Or how about becoming a better family member? I teach a short segment on EQ in my grad classes here at Ohio State… and if you know Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence construct… you understand that when we know ourselves better (recognizing our own emotions), we can use that knowledge to guide our thinking and behavior. That’s powerful stuff. But how do you improve your emotional intelligence? One way is to learn a new...

What are you curious about? Some folks will respond to this question with an immediate answer: “Everything!” Others may just look at you and ask what you mean. Whether at one end of the spectrum, or somewhere in the middle, watching someone respond to this question will allow you to immediately know a lot about them and their potential for long-term success. In brief, curiosity is one of the most important traits and a high predictor for success identified by researchers at Korn Ferry, an...

Please join us on October 21, 2024, at 12:30 pm for the launch of our new Consumer Food Waste series. This series is part of a USDA grant that Ohio State University and Rutgers Cooperative Extension received to create a national consumer food waste community of practice. This monthly webinar series showcases the efforts of Extension groups, university researchers, and leaders in the food and sustainability industry who are making significant strides in combating consumer food waste. Each...