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Throughout 2023 and early 2024, Illinois
Extension, in partnership with Huron Consulting Group, engaged
in a comprehensive planning process to refine and refresh its
core priorities, goals, and paths to success through internal
and external stakeholder surveys, focus groups, and listening
sessions statewide. The research yielded vital findings around
Extension’s engagement, services, partnerships, and impact and
identified shifting trends, demographics, and needs that will
impact Illinois residents.
Extension now embarks on a new chapter of service as it further
extends the land-grant mission of University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences. All are invited to join a Zoom-based
“town hall” event featuring Associate Dean and Illinois
Extension Director Shelly Nickols-Richardson and members of
Extension’s Strategic Planning and Implementation team to learn
about the plan and its’ eight strategic priorities: community,
economy, environment, food and agriculture, health,
partnerships, technology and discovery, and workforce
excellence, and their associated signature initiatives.
Meeting Details
Date: Tuesday, Sep. 24 at 11 a.m.
Calendar reminder
Zoom link
STRATEGIC PLANNING INQUIRIES: Contact Bobbie Jo Lewis-Sibley,
217-300-9291
ABOUT ILLINOIS EXTENSION:
University of Illinois Extension develops educational programs,
extends knowledge, and builds partnerships to support people,
communities, and their environments as part of the state's land
grant institution. Extension serves as the leading public
outreach effort for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and
the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
in all 102 Illinois counties through a network of 27
multi-county units and over 700 staff statewide. Extension’s
mission is responsive to eight strategic priorities—community,
economy, environment, food and agriculture, health,
partnerships, technology and discovery, and workforce excellence
— that are served through six program areas — 4-H youth
development, agriculture and agribusiness, community and
economic development, family and consumer science, integrated
health disparities, and natural resources, environment, and
energy. Learn more at extension.illinois.edu.
[WRITER: Bridget Lee-Calfas, director
of marketing and communications, Illinois Extension]
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