About UAF Cooperative Extension Service
Welcome to the 乐虎直播 Cooperative Extension Service. As the
state's gateway to its university system, Extension serves some 50,000 乐虎直播ns annually,
providing a link between 乐虎直播's diverse people and communities by interpreting and
extending relevant university, research-based knowledge in an understandable and usable
form to the public.
Extension was created in 1930 as a department within the 乐虎直播 Agricultural College
and School of Mines. Our relationship with the university continues today within the
Office of the Provost. UAF's public service and community engagement role is filled
in part by Extension educators, faculty and staff located in Anchorage, Bethel, Delta Junction, Dillingham, Fairbanks, Juneau, Kodiak, Nome, Palmer, Sitka and Soldotna. Tribes Extension, with offices in Fairbanks and Anchorage, serves tribal communities across the state.
UAF's Extension is part of the largest informal education system in the world, connecting Extension programs at land-grant colleges and universities in every U.S. territory and state. Extension offers hundreds of publications, written and produced by university specialists, which contain practical information of interest to 乐虎直播 residents. Many publications are free and available online.
Major program areas include: agriculture and horticulture; health, home and family
development; natural resources and community development; 4-H and youth development.
While we may not have an Extension office located in every 乐虎直播 community, Extension
educators are as close as your computer or phone. To find out how we can help you,
browse our site or contact the local Extension office nearest you. We know you will find the people friendly and the information useful.
This is the current Extension Professionals' Creed.
This creed was written by W. A Lloyd (the founder of Epsilon Sigma Phi, an Extension Honorary) in 1922 as a New Year鈥檚 greeting to county agricultural agents. It was adopted by Epsilon Sigma Phi in 1927. The original creed was titled 鈥淭he Extension Worker鈥檚 Creed鈥 and has been revised from time to time to reflect changes in societal values, educational trends and federal law.
I believe in people and their hopes, their aspirations, and their faith; in their right to make their own plans and arrive at their own decisions; in their ability and power to enlarge their lives and plan for the happiness of those they love.
I believe that education, of which Extension is an essential part, is basic in stimulating individual initiative, self-determination, and leadership; that these are the keys to democracy and that people when given facts they understand, will act not only in their self-interest, but also in the interest of society.
I believe that education is a lifelong process and the greatest university is the home; that my success as a teacher is proportional to those qualities of mind and spirit that give me welcome entrance to the homes of the families I serve.
I believe in intellectual freedom to search for and present the truth without bias and with courteous tolerance toward the views of others.
I believe that Extension is a link between the people and the ever-changing discoveries in the laboratories.
I believe in the public institutions of which I am a part.
I believe in my own work and in the opportunity I have to make my life useful to humanity.
Because I believe these things, I am an Extension professional.