from John Shutske, Program Director, ANRE, UW-Extension.

1. Multidisciplinary Team Proposals
November 2011
Presented at ANRE state Staff Meeting
and Dean’s WISLINE
John Shutske, PD for ANRE
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2. Background
• Strategic plan, program area silos concerns.
• Work often happens in multiple program areas,
sometimes with no awareness or linkages.
• Program directors group project (starting about a
year ago).
• Our Dean and other leaders hope to “resource”
some multi-program, multi-disciplinary efforts.
• SHAREPOINT software offers.
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3. Ideas and Proposals Being Collected
• One or more will move forward.
–Additional support for:
• Development
• Support for working together
• Evaluation
• Reporting
• Other activities that will help document
and demonstrate impact
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4. Website for Collecting Ideas and
Proposals
• http://blogs.ces.uwex.edu/multidisciplinary-
team-proposals/
• Need your UWEX – Cooperative Extension login
• Password re-sets if needed at State Staff Meeting
• Otherwise, contact
–helpdesk@ces.uwex.edu
–800-760-7610 - Helpdesk
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12. Next Steps (after mid-December)
• We hope to have dozens of proposals.
• Some will be very similar.
• Some may be unique, but have many
comments/joiners.
• Evaluation team members will look for themes.
• One or more will be selected for further work.
• SHAREPOINT will be used as a tool to assemble
material/data and coordinate work.
• CURRENTLY (before this process was developed), a
Local Foods multi-disciplinary team has begun to
work in this manner.
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13. Important….
• If someone has proposed something similar to
your idea, THAT’S GOOD!!!
• Add your own proposal, OR, add your
comments and unique perspectives to an
existing proposal.
• Only ideas that seem to have a “critical mass”
will be selected and aggregated into a
supported effort.
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14. If you have questions…
• Contact your Program Director and Associate Program
Director.
• If you have ideas, make them known through this
process…
• If you have ideas about the PROCESS itself, let one of
us know.
• If you’ve stumbled into this presentation and want to
learn more about Cooperative Extension in Wisconsin,
check out:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/
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