Guide to the North Carolina State University, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Committees Records, 1995-2000

Descriptive Summary

Repository: North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Creator: North Carolina State University, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Title: North Carolina State University, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Committees Records, 1995-2000
Call Number: UA 102.004
Extent: 3 linear feet, 2 archival cartons
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.
Language of Material: English

Information for Users

Restrictions to Access: This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours notice.
Acquisitions Information: Transferred by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, 2006 May 18.
Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], North Carolina State University, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Committees Records, 1995-2000, UA 102.004, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Historical Note

The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service is an education and outreach program designed to provide citizens of North Carolina access to the knowledge generated by North Carolina State University departments working in agricultural research.

Although ad hoc extension services had been ongoing since the founding of the North Carolina State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts, the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service was officially formed in 1914 as a result of the Smith-Lever Act, a law providing for federal, state, and county cooperation in creating a system to expand demonstration and extension work. The law authorized land-grant colleges across the nation to sign memoranda of understanding with the United States Department of Agriculture to begin such work.

After just one year, seventy-one farm and thirty-seven home demonstration agents were employed. The 4-H program took off, and the first annual 4-H Club Week was held in 1915. That same year the new publication Extension Farm News began. At State College, Extension received a permanent home when Ricks Hall was completed in 1922 (its earlier home was split between offices in downtown Raleigh and in Patterson Hall on campus).

During World War II, extension programs played a vital role in the local war effort. Agents ran programs on increasing farm production and conserving valuable resources. A Woman's Land Army sent women to the fields to replace the many men who joined the military. The 4-H program helped children grow Victory Gardens, operate scrap drives, and compete in their own produce productivity competitions. The work performed during the war years was so successful that agricultural production actually doubled compared to previous years. Extension continued to grow between 1945 and 1956, doubling its personnel and more than tripling its budget.

Economic difficulties in the 1970s saw the Extension Service increase its activities in rural food production and nutrition. Extension worked with the North Carolina Department of Social Service to bring meals to senior citizens, and in 1969 it established the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) to help underprivileged North Carolinians better their nutritional standards and to educate them about available food assistance programs. Extension also worked with farmers facing serious economic troubles to better their situations.

Perhaps the most noticeable change to Extension occurred in 1991, when the program changed its named from the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service to the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in order to better reflect the service's activities that had grown beyond the development of state and local agriculture. Today, working alongside North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and a national network of land-grant institutions, and using the resources of twenty-one academic departments at NCSU, the Service maintains centers in every county in the state, and provides education and programming in numerous subjects, among them agriculture, forestry, environmental sustainability, youth and family development, and community viability.

Scope and Content Note

The records, 1995-2000, of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service committees include administrative records pertaining to the Extension Tomorrow project committee and other committee-related materials from the Associate Dean and Director's Office of the service. Records include committee meeting minutes, meeting schedules, meeting expense reports and budgets, planning reports, presentations, e-mails, handwritten notes, publications, and other items.

Organization of the Collection

This collection has not been fully processed. Files are currently arranged by type of document.

Online Catalog Terms

The following terms have been used to index the guide to the collection in the NCSU Library's online catalog.

Corporation Entities

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service

Topics

Agricultural extension work--North Carolina--Management.
Rural extension--North Carolina.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Extension Meeting, 1999 Feb. 15-16 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 1]
Extension Meeting Burlington, NC, 1999 Oct. 18-19 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 2]
Extension Meeting Burlington, NC, 1999 June 29-30, July 1 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 3]
Extension Tomorrow Burlington, 1999 April 27-28 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 4]
Extension Meeting Burlington, NC, 1999 March 30-31 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 5]
Extension Meeting Burlington, NC, 1999 March 25-26 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 6]
Extension Meeting , 1999 Feb. 15-16 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 7]
Article from the Epsilom Sigma Phi Newsletter "Connection", Charlotte Roberts Downlink, 1998 Dec. 10 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 8]
Extension Meeting, 1999 Feb. 15-16 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 9]
Extension Meeting, 1998 Dec. 10-11 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 10]
Extension Meeting, Four Points Hotel, Raleigh, NC, 1998 Oct. 15-16 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 11]
Extension, Brown Summit, 1998 Sept. 10-11 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 12]
Extension Tomorrow Issue Ranking Sheets NCCESA State Meeting, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 13]
Extension Tomorrow Issue Ranking Sheet Federation Meeting, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 14]
Extension Tomorrow Presentation to COT, 1998 June 17 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 15]
Extension Tomorrow Issue Ranking Sheets 4-H State Meeting, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 16]
Extension Tomorrow Issue Ranking Sheets South Central CED's, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 17]
Extension Budget, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 18]
Extension Organization Renewal Team Actions, Outcomes & Impacts [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 19]
NCSU/NCA&T Collaboration Report [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 20]
Extension Job Groups/Teams [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 21]
Extension Tomorrow - Brochure [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 22]
Extension Tomorrow The Cooperative Extension Organization Renewal Team [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 23]
Extension, A Protocol for Building Relationships with Other Groups [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 24]
Goals for Extension Tomorrow Team [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 25]
Ground Rules [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 26]
Key Issues Raised in Two Studies of Cooperative Extension [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 27]
Memos to Team Members [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 28]
Miscellaneous [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 29]
NCCES - Major Program Accomplishments Overview [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 30]
Update Info for Admin [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 31]
Team Charge [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 32]
Presentations [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 33]
A Brief History - NC Cooperative Extension Service [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 34]
Resources - Systems Thinking - 1 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 35]
Resources - Systems Thinking - 2 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 36]
NC STAT Model Eva Klein Study [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 37]
Organization Renewal Process and Survey/Questionnaire [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 38]
Positioning the Community College for Community Leadership [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 39]
Regional Meeting Summary Community & Elected Official Feedback, Chancellor Monteith Regional Meetings, 1997 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 40]
Some Guidelines on Change Models and Strategic Planning Theories for the "E.T. Team" By: Lanny Hass [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 41]
Steve Straus - Mutual Learning Management and Supervision - The Dynamics of Group Problem Solving [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 42]
Report on Customer Satisfaction, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 43]
Extension Tomorrow Organizational Renewal Team Meetings, Brown-Summit, NC, May 19-20, June 25-26, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 44]
Organizational Renewal Team, miscellaneous, 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 45]
Organizational Climate Studies, 1996-1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 46]
"Concepts of System Thinking Based on Peter Senge's 'The Fifth Discipline,'" 1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 47]
Other Extension Services, 1995-1998 [UA 102.004 Carton 1, Folder 48]
Organizational Communications References, undated [UA 102.004 Carton 2]
Extension Tomorrow, binder, 1996-2000 [UA 102.004 Carton 2]