Teaching public value to all types of learners
Last week I spoke at a workshop for grantees of the North Central Risk Management Education Center (NCRMEC). At the workshop, Karl Duley of University of Wisconsin Extension gave a presentation on meeting the needs of learners with different personality types, using the Myers-Briggs taxonomy. I wondered how well the “Building Extension’s Public Value” (BEPV) curriculum can be adapted for different kinds of learners.
The public university’s mission is to…create public value?
Around the country Extension organizations are using the public value approach to make a case for public funding for Extension programs and, in some cases, for the organization as a whole. But, can the public value approach help make a case for public higher education funding, generally? This was–understandably–a topic of conversation yesterday when I taught a short workshop for the Public Higher Education Advocacy Professionals, who held their annual conference here at the University of Minnesota.
Are we storytellers or statisticians?
A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk on “Building Public Value with Extension and Research” at the National Extension and Research Administrative Officers Conference in Madison, WI. I heard a question that echoed one that I once asked of an Extension legislative affairs officer: “When making the case for Extension funding to an elected official, is it more effective to tell personal stories about positive experiences with Extension, or to share statistics about the impact of Extension programs?”
Revising the public value curriculum
This summer I will be updating the curriculum materials for the “Building Extension’s Public Value (BEPV)” and “Public Value of Programs (PVofPP)” workshops. For each workshop, we are updating the slideset, the participant’s workbook, and the presenter’s guide.
Building public value with risk management programs
Congratulations to the 2010 grantees of the North Central Risk Management Education Center! The summer training workshop for the 2010 project directors will be in Indianapolis, IN, August 10-11. As part of the workshop, I will present a customized version of the “Building Extension’s Public Value” workshop, tentatively titled, “Creating Public Value with Your Educational Project.”