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Penn State faculty and Outreach and Cooperative Extension specialists are featured in the most recent issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Their work appears in the journal’s special issue of articles from the conference on Outreach Scholarship 2001: Learning, Discovery and Engagement. The conference, held at Penn State in October 2001, was sponsored by a partnership of Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin-Extension and Penn State. Dr. Jeri L. Childers, interim director of Outreach Program Resources and conference chair for the annual Outreach Scholarship conference, served as guest editor for this special issue.
The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement is a publication of the Institute of Higher Education and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia.
Featured Penn State authors are:
 | “Outreach and Engagement: Building and Sustaining Learning Communities in Higher Education” by Penn Staters Dr. Jeri L. Childers; Michael J. Martin, special assistant to the vice president for Outreach and Cooperative Extension; Dr. Michael Dann, senior program developer, Outreach Program Resources; and Christopher Dufour, senior conference planner, Conferences and Institutes; as well as Karen Bruns, Ohio State University, and Greg Wise, University of Wisconsin-Extension. |
| “Beyond Boyer, The UniSCOPE Model of Scholarship for the 21st Century” by Dr. Drew Hyman, professor of public policy and community systems; Elise A. Gurgevich, Keystone 21 project coordinator; Dr. Theodore R. Alter, associate vice president for outreach, director of Cooperative Extension and associate dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences; Dr. John E. Ayers, professor of plant pathology; Dr. Erskine H. Cash, professor of animal science; Donald E. Fahnline, associate professor of physics; Dr. David P. Gold, professor emeritus of geology; Dr. Robert O. Herrmann, professor emeritus of agricultural economics; Dr. Peter C. Jurs, professor of chemistry; David E. Roth, PE, associate professor of engineering; John D. Swisher, professor emeritus of education; M. Susie Whittington, former Penn State faculty member and now associate professor of human and community resources development at Ohio State University; and Dr. Helen Smiciklas-Wright, professor of nutrition. |
| “In Search of an Intergenerational Agenda for Cooperative Extension” by Dr. Matthew Kaplan, associate professor of intergenerational programs and aging, Penn State, and Mary Brintnall-Peterson, University of Wisconsin-Extension. |
| “Cooperative Extension Response to a Diversity Education Resource: Implications for Extension Programming” by Dr. Patreese D. Ingram, associate professor of agricultural and extension education, and Dr. Rama Radhakrishna, associate professor of agricultural and extension education. |
| “Outreach is a standard component of our operations. Faculty members in the dietetics programs are committed on a full-time basis to those programs and to outreach. In working with clients, faculty members develop materials that become part of their resident instruction and research programs.” |
—Dr. Robert D. Lee
Professor of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management and Public Administration |
| “Many of our faculty members have engaged in outreach activities in order to enhance their scholarship. These activities give faculty access to test beds for their research, data sets to manipulate and sabbatical opportunities. These opportunities have led in many cases to scholarly publications and conference presentations.” |
—Dr. Robert Light
Associate Provost and Associate Dean
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College |
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