Ohio State University Extension
Our Mission: Ohio State University Extension helps people improve
their lives through an educational process using scientific knowledge
focused on identified issues and needs.
Our Vision: Ohio State University Extension is broadly recognized
throughout the state as a premier educational network. It is a
dynamic organization strengthening individuals, families and
communities in partnership with the Federal Extension System.
Extension Educators:
- Concentrate on critical economic, environmental, leadership, and
youth/family development issues.
- Engage people in their own learning and subsequent actions.
- Address emerging needs by developing programs that anticipate
social and economic changes.
- Apply valid, reliable research and information.
- Unite and extend the broad base of university resources.
- Maximize available resources by organizing and leading coalitions.
- Educate without discrimination and employ people representing the
diversity in the state's population.
- Recruit and develop volunteers to multiply Extension's efforts.
- Link local needs with researchers.
- Teach with appropriate and effective educational techniques and
methods.
- Value teamwork; recognize and support the contribution of one
another.
Our Organizational Values:
As Extension educators with the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service,
The Ohio State University, we are dedicated to the following values
for our organization:
- We believe in an emphasis on excellence in educational programming
- We believe in programs that help people solve problems
- We believe in useful, practical programs
- We believe in helping people help themselves
- We believe in quick responses to clientele concerns
- We believe in the unbiased delivery of information
- We believe in credibility with clientele
- We believe in honesty and integrity in our work
- We believe in a philosophy of teamwork.
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