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Parents' Perceptions Of Life Skill Development And Satisfaction With Utah 4-H, Oakley G. Perry
Parents' Perceptions Of Life Skill Development And Satisfaction With Utah 4-H, Oakley G. Perry
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The 4-H program is the nation’s largest youth development program with near six million members nationwide. Utah 4-H provides this program to the residents of Utah through Utah State University’s Extension Service. The program focuses on teaching life skills to youth to prepare them for their future using hands on educational programs tied to project areas, or particular topics like equine science or fine arts. Utah 4-H has many different stakeholders, one of which being the parents of its members. For youth programs to continue to be successful, these programs must show stakeholders their significance and ensure that its audience …
Trends In Cooperative Extension Calls From 2010 - 2019, Emily Elizabeth Smith
Trends In Cooperative Extension Calls From 2010 - 2019, Emily Elizabeth Smith
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purposes of this study are to assess the most frequently addressed topics that the public has for Family Consumer Sciences (FCS) related Extension professionals and to indicate whether the topics are changing over time, with a specific interest in changes to food safety and preservation inquiries. The CES office in one county in a western state has been collecting FCS data from the years 2010 to 2019. This data is about the FCS-specific phone calls received to the office. The data was then coded and put into an Excel spreadsheet. There were a total of 5,863 phone calls with …
Factors Explaining Remote Work Adoption In The United States, Paul A. Hill
Factors Explaining Remote Work Adoption In The United States, Paul A. Hill
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The Rural Online Initiative program at Utah State University Extension supported this quantitative study investigating the factors explaining the process of remote work adoption by organizations in the U.S. Given the potential for remote work with respect to technological advances, shifts in traditional work arrangements, and its impact on organizational/operational efficiency, there was a need to investigate how organizational characteristics and leaders’ perceptions of remote work relate to its adoption. This study was guided by Rogers’ theory of diffusion of innovations where research objectives were to (1) determine where organizations range in the innovation-decision process of remote work adoption, (2) …