Found 74 events matching "extension"
The forestry extension program was split into extension forest management and extension wood products.
Extension Forest Management was renamed Extension Forest Resources. The name changed again at a later date to Extension Forestry.
This was the first periodical published by the Agricultural Extension Service. Later titles for the publication were Extension Farm News, Extension News & Advisor, and North Carolina Agricultural Extension Advisor.
The North Carolina Extension Homemakers Association became the North Carolina Extension and Community Association (NCECA).
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service changed its name to the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
This organization existed as a coalition of the NC Association of County Agricultural Agents; the NC Association of Extension 4-H Agents; the NC Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences; the NC Association of Extension Specialist; the NC Cooperative Extension Secretaries Association; and the NC Association of Extension Program Assistants, Associates and Technicians.
The NC Agricultural Extension Service published a guide in the Home Extension publication titled, “Physically Handicapped: Aids to Self Help in Homemaking, Grooming & Clothing.”
Programs of the federal New Deal agricultural agencies, such as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), caused an expansion in the activities and programs of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.
As a result of expansion under the New Deal agricultural programs, this was the first year that there was a county agent for every county in North Carolina.
Textiles extension short courses in Charlotte and New York were announced in 1968, and they were exceedingly popular. In 1969, thirteen new courses were offered in Raleigh, featuring NC State faculty and industry executives as guest lecturers.
A. Rich Bonanno became director of extension in 2016.
Jon Ort was director of Extension Service until 2010.
George Hyatt was director of the Extension Service until 1978.
Robert Wells was director of the Extension Service until 1994.
Joseph Zublena was director of the Extension Service until 2015.
NC State Humanities Extension established HOLA as a program to "teach Spanish and Hispanic culture" to extension field faculty who work in areas of North Carolina with large Latinx populations.
Extension programs, including 4-H and Home Economics, began to integrate.
Robert W. Shoffner was director of the Extension Service until 1963.
T. Carlton Blalock was director of the Extension Service until 1981.
Chester "Chet" Black was director of the Extension Service until 1990.