FOA-NIFA/USDA
- Seaman A. Knapp Lecture; August 21, 2020
Description:
Each
year the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) joins with the
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to sponsor a lecture
presented at the APLU annual meeting. The lecture honors one of the three most
important historical figures of the Land-grant University system: William Henry
Hatch for research, Seaman A. Knapp for extension, and Justin Smith Morrill for
whom the Morrill Act creating the Land-grant University system is named.
NIFA
and APLU are seeking nominations to honor Seaman A. Knapp, the father of the
Cooperative Extension concept. In 1906, Knapp initiated the county-agent plan
and, in order to promote the plan, organized boys’ cotton and corn growing
clubs and in 1910 a girls’ corn and poultry club. These organizations were the
forerunners of the modern 4-H Clubs. In today’s rapidly changing world,
Cooperative Extension has evolved to meet the shifting local, national, and
global needs of the people it serves.
They
are seeking an insightful topic and a dynamic speaker, who can provoke
discussion among meeting participants and prepare a formal lecture to be
presented prior to the virtual APLU annual meeting in November. While they seek
recommendations from those within the Land-grant University system, they also
would encourage you to share this memorandum with colleagues outside of the
research, education, and extension system, including stakeholders, foundations,
public interest groups, or international organizations. Nominations are
encouraged from all sources.
Recommendations
should include the name of the nominee, title, address, telephone number, and
e-mail address and topic that could be discussed. Please submit your potential
topic and/or presenter on or before August 21, 2020. Recommendations should be
forwarded electronically to Bill Hoffman at whoffman4@usda.gov.
A committee will review submissions and narrow the scope of the recommendations
in order to make a final decision.
Closing
Date:
August
21, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement:
https://nifa.usda.gov/aplu-memorial-lecture-series
Contact
Information:
Bill
Hoffman