Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that we have appointed two new members to serve on Program Council: Rose Hayden-Smith and Steve Orloff.  The Program Council coordinates divisionwide planning and delivery of programs and provides recommendations for allocation of resources.  The new members will continue providing a county-based perspective to Program Council once the Regional Directors end their duties on June 30.  Orloff and Hayden-Smith will join Program Council in July 2010 on two- and three-year staggered terms respectively, to ensure continuity of county-based input.

Using an online survey tool, we solicited nominations of county-based Cooperative Extension academics from specialists and...