Community and Economic Development

Art & Design Applications
Art & Design Applications
Community Sustainability

Customer Service workshops are taught by Extension Regional Directors and County Extension staff to strengthen their local economies.


This program focuses on data literacy and education to provide knowledge and skills to understand, use, visualize, interpret, and practice with data.

This course will explore the easy-to-use features in QGIS 3.x software. QGIS is a free and open source multi-platform mapping application for the editing, display, query and analysis of map data as well as map layout tasks.

Data & Technology
Community Sustainability

The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) is the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domest

Civic Engagement & Leadership
Civic Engagement & Leadership

City and County officials, both elected and appointed, are entrusted with the task making decisions that impact how much revenue is generated and how spending priorities are set.

Mapping 101 is appropriate for individuals interested in understanding how to create maps for decision making and building new skills in QGIS for data and map development.

Marketing Hometown America is a program that is designed to help rural communities retain their quality of life and market the value of rural places by teaching them to home in on what people are looking for when they choose a place to live and do business.

The Municipal Professionals Academy offers continuing education credits for city clerks, finance officers and other government employees.

Intended Audiences:
Government Employee

“Unlocking the Secrets of Social Media for Retailers” provides tips for creating social media posts, building relationships, branding and marketing, and building your social media audience.