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How are state Extension systems rising to meet needs highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Caroline Crocoll Henney, executive director of the national Cooperative Extension System, joins the Extension Out Loud podcast to discuss.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on many of the challenges and deficits that families face, CCE Associate Director Kim Kopko is hopeful that our experiences and the lessons of the past year will help families, caregivers, and educators adapt to new and arising challenges in the future.

April 26, 2021 Historian and professor Scott Peters has dedicated over two decades to examining the dynamic relationships that scientists, scholars, and extension educators at land-grant universities have with the communities they serve.  Lee Wexler/Provided In this episode of “Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension, Peters traces the history of extension systems and engages with the difficult question: what exactly is extension work? He says, “the work ...

Provided As the principle investigator for the Working Lands Innovation Center, CALS Dean Benjamin Z. Houlton worked with farmers and ranchers in California to identify opportunities for improving soil health, forage biomass and carbon sequestration. CALS dean joins CCE podcast to talk leading through extension February 23, 2021 In the latest episode of “Extension Out Loud,” a podcast by Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), Benjamin Houlton, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the Colle...