Western U.S. multistate research project on “water movement in soils”: A retrospective by Jan W. Hopmans, Timothy R. Green, Michael H. Young

“…The scientific interactions that started in 1958 with 10 scientists in western land‐grant universities and the USDA to address “Water Movement in Soil” have grown in membership and scope through successive 5‐yr projects. …”
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Community Driven Technology Innovation and Investment: Early Reflections on Efforts to Cultivate a Culture of Engaged Engineering Scholarship at Oregon State University by Chinweike I. Eseonu, Jacob Hammar

“…This is problematic because the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), lists science- and technology-based innovation as central to sustained economic development. Although land-grant Extension services translate benefits of research in agriculture, biology, and related sciences to communities, there is little emphasis on translating outcomes from engineering and technology research and innovation to communities. …”
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Breaking the Cycle: Women’s Experience in Postsecondary Agricultural and Extension Education by Lauren L. Cline, Haley Rosson, Penny Pennington Weeks

“…Women are disproportionately represented among faculty and leadership at land-grant institutions and in the agricultural education profession. …”
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Examining the relation of high school preparation and college achievement to conceptual understanding by Dona Hewagallage, Elaine Christman, John Stewart

“…This study investigated factors influencing Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE) pretest and post-test scores for a sample (N=1116 students) collected in the introductory calculus-based mechanics class at a large eastern land-grant university. Several academic and noncognitive factors were examined using correlation analysis and linear regression analysis to understand their relation to students’ physics conceptual understanding. …”
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Researching Market and Supply-Chain Opportunities for Local Foods Systems: Setting Priorities and Identifying Linkages by Dawn Thilmany, David Conner, Kynda R. Curtis, Chyi-lyi (Kathleen) Liang, Kranti Mulik, Jeffrey O'Hara, Martha Sullins, Tim Woods

“…There is an increasing array of land-grant, nonprofit, and other academic programs intended to support the development of food system enterprises and programs. …”
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Cooperative Extension and Health Literacy: A National Focus by Sonja Koukel, Cathy Newkirk, Sarah Bercaw, Belinda Letto, Fatemeh Malekian

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Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor by Joseph L. Donaldson, Wendy Warner, Jacklyn Bruce, Joy Morgan, Harriett Coleman Edwards, Rose Vaughan

“…This paper reports on a three-year initiative to enhance the undergraduate Extension Education minor at a state land-grant university. Specific initiatives to improve the undergraduate Extension Education minor curriculum involved (a) revising the Extension Education minor due to varied curriculum and faculty changes and (b) aligning eight Extension Education courses’ units of study with Extension professional competency domains. …”
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Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development by Josh Brewer, Brandon Kliewer

“…This article describes a qualitative method that was developed by a non-profit practitioner working for a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and a researcher from a land-grant university in Manhattan, Kansas to operationalise a neighbourhood revitalisation framework with a community conversation series called Front Porch Conversations. …”
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Developing Students’ Intercultural Competence through Children’s and Adolescent Literature by Brian Hibbs

“…As part of a second-semester Spanish course in a large land-grant university in the American Southwest, seventy-six students read two children’s and adolescent novels in Spanish as part of the course curriculum and documented their developing understandings of Latino culture through journal entries, surveys and compositions. …”
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Lessons for 4-H Youth Member Recruitment and Retention From the First-Generation College Student Literature by Ashley Patricia Parra, Nicholas A. Morris, Jeremy Elliott-Engel

“…4-H is the largest positive youth development organization in the United States and is implemented by the land grant university system. To achieve program expansion, the century-old organization will need to recruit and retain millions more youth that reflect their increasingly diversified communities. …”
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Discussing Extension Agents’ Role in Moderating Contentious Issue Conversations by Arthur Leal, Joy N. Rumble, Alexa J. Lamm, Keegan D. Gay

“…As connectors between the Land-grant university system and the public, Extension agents need to know how to effectively communicate about contentious issues with clientele. …”
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Accessibility and Inclusion as an Approach to Enhancing Local Extension Programs by S. Dee Jepsen, Laura Akgerman, Karen Funkenbusch, Jessie Calero, Heather Kelejian

“…Applying disability service concepts to urban communities maximizes the Land Grant’s mission to create inclusive environments, ultimately impacting agricultural sustainability.…”
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Governance and Innovations in Local Food System Development by Krystal M. Chojnacki, Nancy Creamer

“…The case reviews the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), a trans­disciplinary, interinstitutional collaboration between the state’s two land-grant institutions, (North Carolina State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University), and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, as an active and prominent stakeholder in the process of local food system governance. …”
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Developing a Community-Based Research Network for Interdisciplinary Science: The Alabama Entrepreneurial Research Network by Annette Jones Watters, Paavo Haninen, J. Michael Hardin

“…This network has been sustained for over 10 years at a non-land grant state university. This paper describes the AERN program and suggests that an extensive university bureaucracy devoted to community relationships (such as the very successful and admirable Extension System) is not always necessary for long-lasting, effective engaged scholarship. …”
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Extension’s Response to the Change in Public Value: Considerations for Ensuring Financial Security for the Cooperative Extension System by Jeremy Elliot-Engel, Donna M. Westfall-Rudd, Megan Sibel, Eric Kaufman

“…Cooperative Extension is a partnership of county, state, and federal governments to fund the translation and community education of applied research from the land-grant university system. Cooperative Extension’s funding since the 1980s has experienced a few key trends such as federal budget stagnation as well as state and county cyclic funding cycles based on the states’ economic health. …”
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Student perceptions of inclusive pedagogy in undergraduate STEM classrooms by Caley J. Valdez, Nicole C. Kelp

“…We surveyed undergraduates (n = 74) from diverse STEM disciplines at a large land-grant university regarding their observation of 11 different inclusive pedagogical practices. …”
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Success Rate Disparities Between Online and On-campus Economics Courses by Melanie G. Long, Karen Gebhardt, Kelly McKenna

“…We use institutional data on Economics enrollments between 2012 and 2018 at a mid-sized land-grant university to deconstruct online/face-to-face success gaps into a student’s term modality (or modalities) and institutional affiliation components. …”
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The Healthy Diabetes Plate by Martha Raidl, PhD, RD, Kristina Spain, MS, RD, Rhea Lanting, MS, Marsha Lockard, MS, Shelly Johnson, MS, Marnie Spencer, MS, RD, Laura Sant, MS, RD, Julia Welch, Audrey Liddil, MS, Mimi Hartman-Cunningham, MA, RD, CDE

“…The second is that many individuals with diabetes find the meal-planning component of diabetes education confusing.Context The University of Idaho, a land-grant institution, includes teaching, research, and extension as part of its mission. …”
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Connecting New Farmers to Place, Agroecology, and Community through a Bilingual Organic Farm Incubator by Katherine Selting Smith, Marcia Ostrom, Donald McMoran, Lynne Carpenter-Boggs

“…This paper explores an initiative designed to reinvigorate the production components of a place-based, regional food system through connecting diverse aspiring entrepreneurial farmers, nonprofit organizations, land grant university faculty, and food consumers around shared values. …”
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Insights into Rural Stress: Using the Community Capitals Framework to Help Inform Rural Policies and Interventions by Kevan W. Lamm, Alyssa Powell, Abigail Borron, Keith Atkins, Stephanie Hollifield

“…A sample of extension agents from a southeastern land-grant university in the United States provided rating and ranking data. …”
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