Cohort 20 Project Summaries

Sam Angima – Oregon State University Extension Emergency Response Plan

Stephen Beck – Making Oklahoma 4-H Beyond Ready

Hans Coetzee – Where’s the Funding!? Implementing a New Budget Framework in Response to Changes in Federal Research Funding

Lamin E. N. Drammeh – Bridging Excellence: Developing and Implementing A “True” Joint Appointment Plan at SC State University

Polly Ericksen – Building a Food Systems Collaborative Research Culture

Mike Gutter – Optimizing Business Decision-Making to Advance Sustainable and Profitable Outcomes for Local Producers and Foresters

Carrie Hammer – Establishing a stackable certificate master of agriculture program at NDSU

Catherine Hill – Entomology+AI: Building a Future-Ready Food Systems Workforce

Matthew G. Interis – The CAFLS Academic Affairs Impulse

Shanna Ivey – Development and Launch of an Online Program 

Jeremy James – Toward distributed leadership in an academic department

Clint R Krehbiel – Pathway to Prime Through Strategic Resource Groups 

Kent D. Messer – Beyond the Loading Dock: Scaling CBEAR’s National Impact on Behavioral Science in Agri-Environmental Issues

Shafiqur Rahman – Pathway to R2 for Central State University

Jennifer H. Waldeck – Developing Leadership Succession in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia

Jessica Ward – From Student Perspectives to State Policy: Understanding and Addressing the Rural Veterinary
Workforce Challenge in Iowa

Bryon Wiegand – Reimagining the Fiscal and Operational Structure of the University of Missouri AES Beef Cattle Units

Yanhai Yin – Integrated Health Sciences (IHS) Program Development at Iowa State University