EEC Blog: An ongoing newsletter of the Extension Educators Council

Welcome to the homepage of the Extension Educator Council Blog. The Extension Educator Council (EEC) represents UNH Cooperative Extension Educators and their issues to the University administration. One of the goals for the current EEC is to better communicate with Extension Educators regarding issues that affect them as UNH employees. We have launched this blog to give Educators and Specialists information on current EEC agenda items, easy access to minutes and personnel issues, and to provide a means for input to EEC on important topics.

In order to more easily obtain input from EEs, we have created a discussion forum called the EEC Scuttlebutt. By restricting access to Extension Educators and Specialists, we have tried to lend a measure of confidentiality to the forum. Individuals may choose whatever screen name they want when registering. You may also email current EEC members with your questions or concerns.

Extension Educator Council By-Laws

eecbylaws.pdf

Current EEC Members

As of January, 2008 Extension Educator Council members are:

Julia Peterson, chair (Sea Grant & Water Resources)
Geoffrey Njue, vice-chair (Agricultural Resources)
Matt Tarr, (Forestry & Wildlife)
Lisa Townson, (Program Development & Evaluation)
Nancy Bradford-Sisson, secretary (Family & Consumer Resources)
Sharon Cowen, (Family & Consumer Resources)
Chuck Hersey (Forestry & Wildlife)

EEC Blog Entries Available through email

You can receive an email message when new entries are made to the EEC Blog (and other Extension Blogs) by following this link http://extension.unh.edu/blogs/subscribe.cfm?FEEDID=158348.

You will be asked for you email address and you can check the blogs you would like to be subscribed to.

Presidental Award of Excellence - Call for nominations

You should have just received your blue postcard from UNH requesting nominations for the Presidential Award of Excellence.

PLEASE take the time to consider nominating a colleague for the Presidential Award of Excellence for 2007. This award is the most significant of all awards because of the recognition across the UNH campus. If you admire the hard work and years of dedicated service of one of your colleagues, nominate them today! Categories include EE, PAT and OS. You must be a UNH employee to nominate. Individuals in all categories can nominate individuals in any of the three categories.

Important Advice: For the category of Extension Educator, the decision makers (EE PAE Peer Review Committee) include three individuals from CE as well as two from UNH HR. Although the HR representatives will take input from EEs on that committee into consideration, they are relying primarily on what they receive from the person nominating. Therefore, you may want to contact the Program Leader and ask for some input on specific impacts and accomplishments. This will make a stronger nomination. A document with more detailed information can be uploaded easily (see instructions at link below) or text can be cut and pasted into the nomination form.

This advice is equally true for PAT and OS nominations - PAE Peer Review Committees for PAT and OS will not always have individuals with first- hand knowledge of your nominee. So contact the supervisor if you need some more detailed information to add to your nomination.

Criteria for this award is - "Demonstrated excellence through outstanding performance in their position and a record of dedication to, and a concern for the University Community."

The deadline is Monday, March 24. All nominations are online, so it is very easy to complete. Simply go to http://nominations.unh.edu/HR/

Being nominated is an honor in itself. ALL Nominees are invited to a reception at the UNH President's home in April.

Having a healthy number of nominees is important in communicating the incredible variety of programs and services Cooperative Extension provides as an outreach of UNH.

The list of past recipients can be found at this link:
http://cecf1.unh.edu/recognition/index.cfm?fuseaction=static.home&page=presawd

Thank you for your consideration of this invitation to take the time to nominate.

Scuttlebutt -- An EEC discussion forum

Scuttlebutt is a discussion forum, where you can provide ideas, comments and suggestions to EEC members regarding issues of importance. Only Extension Educators are allowed access and the system is moderated by Lisa Townson. In order to view and post to Scuttlebutt, you'll need to set up an account.

Print this page so you can refer to it as you go through the log in process.

1. Go to: http://extension.unh.edu/forums/index.php in your web browser.
2. Click on Register in the menu selections at the top of the page
3. Read the Registration Agreement Terms
4. Scroll down and click on "I Agree to these terms and am over or exactly 13 years of age" to signify agreement.
5. Fill in the first five fields of the registration form.
6. Additional fields are optional and should not be changed unless you understand what it means.
7. Scroll to the bottom and click the Submit button
8. This registers you for the forums, but your registration is not activated until you follow a link in an email automatically sent to the email account with which you registered.
9. Check your email and select the "Welcome to UNH Cooperative Extension Forums Forums" email from Steve Judd. Click on the link in the email to activate your account.
10. Log in on the bottom of the screen.
11. This activates your account and enables you to post to or read public forums.

Joining the Scuttlebutt Forum

11. To join a private forum (Scuttlebutt) click on Log In and enter your user information then click submit to log in to the forums.
12. Click on Usergroups from the upper menu. Select the dropdown box, which lists the available groups.
13. Select Scuttlebutt and click view information.
14. Click on Join Group.
15. A confirmation message that you have applied to join this group will appear.
16. You will receive an email after the moderator approves your entrance to the group.