Significant Results: ● Recognizing visionary leadership and diversity in educational programming, ECOP is pleased to share the following awards that were presented Tuesday, November 9, 2021. ● The Coming Together for Racial Understanding Team received the 30th Annual National Extension Diversity Award. ● The National Diversity Award recognizes significant contributions and accomplishments in achieving and sustaining diversity and pluralism. The Coming Together for Racial Understanding Team, composed of Extension specialists and administrators from 22 land-grant universities from 17 states, and other national representatives, is the winner. The team helped train facilitators who guided community dialogues across the country around issues of race and discrimination. The effort involved 29 states sending teams for national training, with more than 100 participants completing train-the-trainer workshops. All told, over 900 Cooperative Extension System staff completed some portion of the training. The principal for the CTRU Team, Rachel Welborn, Associate Director for the Southern Region Rural Development, will accept the award on behalf of the Team. Evaluation Evaluation KIs have reviewed team documents for an initial assessment of evaluation needs based on submissions. No evaluation support has been requested.
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Anticipated work for the next reporting period (December 1, 2021 - February 28, 2022) ● The Fellow(s) will meet with the Evaluation KIs and catalysts to share info about the project, what the Fellow hopes to accomplish with evaluation, and explore evaluation possibilities. If evaluation support is required we will initiate that process.
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