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.

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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.