ISU Extension Futuring Committee:
Action Plan 1 Implementation Report

Special Community Initiatives

Plan Leaders: Interim Communities Program Director and Paul Brown

Long-Term Goal

Twenty percent of ISU Extension’s total budget will consist of Special Community Initiatives (SCIs) by FY06.  Special Community Initiatives are defined by the August 11, 2003, proposal: ISU Extension Special Community Initiatives, available at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/futuring/initiatives.html.

Short-Term Goal

Broaden the understanding of SCI within Extension and among our stakeholders and partners by July 1, 2005.

Action Steps

1. The Vice Provost for Extension will name a committee to establish baseline data on existing SCI activities by February 14, 2005.  The committee will refine and share the definition and then collect and compile faculty and staff reports of ongoing SCIs.  Highlight SCIs in Annual Report, Fall 2005.

2. The area directors and program directors, working with the annual reporting system, will establish sharing methodologies that collect information on SCI activities in order to measure progress toward the long-term goal.  Sharing methodologies will be in place by April 1, 2005.

3. Area and program directors will determine requisite skills (competencies) needed to succeed in identifying, designing, and implementing SCIs and share this information with the team working on Professional Development (Goal #9).

4. Area and program directors, working with staff, will initiate five to seven new SCIs in the next three years.

Long-Term Goal:

Start date: Sept. 8, 2004
End date: June. 30, 2006

Short-Term Goal:

Start date: July 1, 2004
End date: June 30, 2005