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Convenor/Reporter: Halina Zaleski
Recorder: Jan McEwen
Participants:
- Halina Zaleski
- Steve Ferreira
- Brent Buckley
- Naomi Kanehiro
- Debbie Ward
- James Szyper
- Jan McEwen
Burning Issue: Disconnect with reality about plan of work, writing, reporting, assessing projects, measuring impacts.
Highest Hopes: "What are your highest hopes (i.e. vision) for this burning issue?"
Did we cover this? Couldn't find it in the group notes.
Challenges or Barriers:
- Only Principle Investigator is valued.
- Plan of work does not equal project.
- Collaboration.
- Who is plan of work for? What is it for?
- Account number for plan of work or project.
- unclear process and requirements
- unpredictable timetables
- Inconsistent reporting requirements across departments and in general.
- Inconsistent training opportunities.
- Not all projects funded; not all funded work is a project.
- Counting versus impact.
Strategies:
- Extension staff and administration will develop a rationale and timetable for plan and project development, measuring, and reporting. Need to have consistent and mutually agreeable requirements.
- Success of people
- improve collaboration
- recognition/credit for collaboration
- Impact reports
- behavioral changes resulting from programs
- tactics for assessment
Action Items:
- Create group consisting of agents, specialists, administrators: a small focused group soliciting input from all which will develop flexible protocol.
- In-service training for staff:
- impact reports
- assessments
- project-writing
- plan of work
- Encouraging collaboration
- issue of collaboration impacts this process
- modified system to recognize multiple P.I/collaborators
Timeline: in place by August 30, 2002
- orientation in September 2002
- quarterly assessments of process and improvements to judge if this is working
Appropriate administrator: Barry Brennan
Follow-up person from group: Steve Ferreira
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