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2/9/98
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Steve Padgitt, Extension to Communities, (515) 294-8397
Del Marks, Extension Communication Systems, (515)
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Padgitt Named Interim Director of Extension Communities Programs
AMES, Iowa -- Steve Padgitt, professor of sociology and extension sociologist at Iowa State University, has been named interim director of ISU's Extension to Communities programs.
The appointment was announced by Stanley R. Johnson, vice provost for extension. He said Padgitt has agreed to serve in the position until Jan. 1, 2001.
Since joining the ISU faculty in 1982, Padgitt has served in a number of roles including subject matter specialist in rural sociology, program evaluation specialist, coordinator of the sociology extension unit, and leader of the Leopold Center's Human System Issue Team. He currently is coordinator of the undergraduate program in Public Service and Administration in Agriculture.
Padgitt is known for his extension work on environmental issues related to agriculture and water quality. In the last 10 years Padgitt has been principal or co-principal investigator of more than 25 external grants from such funders as the United States Department of Agriculture, the Joyce Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, Practical Farmers of Iowa; Iowa Departments of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Natural Resources, Transportation and Public Health, the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and the Iowa Environmental Council.
Padgitt earned his M.S. degree from the University of Missouri and Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He has participated in the National Extension Leadership Development program, and is the recipient of a special Partnership Award by the Iowa Community Action Agencies, the Extension Meritorious Service Award, and ISU's College of Agriculture's Outstanding Applied Research and Extension Award.
Padgitt succeeds Paul Coates who had served as director since 1994 before taking a faculty position with extension's state and local government programs in the Department of Political Science.
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