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Leadership Styles Of State Extension Specialists, K. Amy Lawyer
Leadership Styles Of State Extension Specialists, K. Amy Lawyer
Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences
Cooperative extension is one of three components, along with teaching and research that form the mission of land grant universities. The focus of extension work is to take knowledge gained through research conducted at the university, and disseminate the information, in a practical manner to the end user. In most instances, extension work revolves around agriculture. Within the extension system are personnel that help to foster this program of educating clientele who work in the agricultural industry. County level agents are in place to teach and address the needs of local constituents, specialists are generally housed at the university campus …