Transcript MCE Strategic Plan Update

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Impact Area
Impact Team
Signature Program
GOALS
What can we be?
Evaluate & communicate
importance of MCE
Reframe structure to reflect priorities
Align with current & emerging issues
Update the existing plan to integrate
with the college & university
Design process,
environmental
scanning, &
secondary data
analysis
(staffing trends,
population
projections &
demographics,
budgets)
Feedback meetings (continuing, emerging
issues, how do we structure & evaluate) &
aggregate responses
Prioritize top
three continuing
and emerging
issues.
Leadership team
analyzes info &
develops draft of
key outcomes &
strategic goals
Strategic
Plan update
drafted.
Statewide
session to
review plan
Strategic
Plan
submitted to
College for
integration
Impact Teams
Form 7/1/09
MCE Strategic Plan Update
 Updated using “practice wisdom,”
environmental scanning, and
secondary data
 Aligned with current environment
 Maintained current mission, vision,
values
 Target to big issues
 Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of
economy, environment, &
community
These words
belong to all of
you. Your
collective,
strategic thinking
and wisdom are
reflected in this
material.
MCE Impact Areas
Local Food &
Agriculture
Systems
Impact Team:
Agriculture &
Natural
Resources
Profitability
Environment
& Natural
Resources
Impact Team:
Energy
Conservation
&
Sustainability
Impact Team:
Natural Res.
Conservation
&
Sustainability
Healthy
Living
Resilient
Communities
Impact Team:
MoneySmart
Impact Team:
Community
Resource &
Economic
Development
Impact Team:
HealthSmart
Impact Team:
Community
Leadership &
Civic
Engagement
Impact Team:
FoodSmart
Community
Economy
Environment
Triple Bottom Line!
Local Food
&
Agriculture
Systems
Key Outcome:
Agriculture and food production will
be sustainable and profitable and
produce a safe, abundant, affordable,
& accessible food supply
Impact Team:
Agriculture & Natural Resource
Profitability
Signature Programs
Impact Area:
Local Food & Agriculture Systems
Strategic Goals:
 Increase agricultural literacy in urban and rural areas to
develop residents’ understanding of the food system.
 Increase the sustainability and profitability of agriculture,
forestry, and green industries through sustainable
environmental practices.
 Minimize loss of agricultural land while enhancing (promoting)
value of agriculture land and open space in rural and urban
areas.
 Increase agricultural profitability and sustainability through the
development of alternative enterprises and value-added
products.
 Optimize the Maryland food system to match local production
with market demand.
 Increase the use and affordability of local grown, fresh food
through local market promotion & community gardens.
Environment
& Natural
Resources
Key Outcome:
Individuals & communities will
become stewards to manage the
environment for the mutual benefit of
people, ecosystems, wildlife, natural
resources, & economic interests
Impact Team:
Energy Conservation & Sustainability
Strategic Goals:
 Increase knowledge of new, science-based, energy-efficient
technologies by assimilation of emerging information on
biofuels, renewable, and alternative energy sources.
 Increase knowledge and use of EPPs, such as LEED.
Signature Programs
Impact Team:
Natural Resources Conservation & Sustainability
Strategic Goals:
 Increase use of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to
improve water, forestry, agriculture, and land quality.
 Increase the adoption of BMPs that reduce inputs of
nutrients into the environment.
 Minimize environmental impact from agriculture through
best management practices.
Signature Programs
Healthy
Living
Key Outcome:
Youth, individuals, & families will
make informed decisions about their
health, finances, food, housing, and
overall well-being
Impact Team: Money$mart
Strategic Goal:
Increase basic financial literacy and
financial security for the future of
Maryland residents.
Signature Programs
Impact Team: HealthSmart
Strategic Goals:
 Increase basic health literacy for adults and youth in
Maryland.
 Improve health status across the life span through
increased consumption of healthful food and increased
physical activity.
 Increase awareness of healthy homes, workplaces, and
schools, and adopt best practices for improving indoor air
quality and environments by reducing harm from lead
paint, smoke, chemicals, radon, mold, and other poisons.
Signature Programs
Impact Team: FoodSmart
Strategic Goals:
 Increase home and community food production and home
food preparation.
 Increase consumer food safety, handling, and food
preservation practices and literacy from farm to consumer
to reduce food-borne illnesses.
Signature Programs
Resilient
Communities
Key Outcome:
Improve human capacity to achieve
desired community outcomes & be
prepared to respond to uncertainties
of economics, health, climate, &
security
Impact Team:
Community Resource & Economic Development
Strategic Goals:

Increase capacity of communities for economic resiliency
through entrepreneurship opportunities.

Increase the knowledge and skills of youth and adults to
develop entrepreneurial ventures.
Increase the number of youth engaged in science, engineering,
and technology to develop work force skills and career paths
and increase the number of students entering college to study
STEM .
Signature Programs

Impact Team:
Community Leadership & Civic Engagement
Strategic Goals:

Increase leadership skills of youth and adults to engage in
community decision-making and public policy.

Increase leadership skills of Maryland residents through
partnerships which lead to sustainable communities.
Enhance the community ability of decision making on publicpolicy issues through process skills (group facilitation, PIE,
consensus building).
Signature Programs

Impact Teams
Agriculture & Natural Resource Profitability
Energy Conservation & Sustainability
Natural Resources Conservation & Sustainability
MoneySmart
HealthSmart
FoodSmart
Community Resource & Economic Development
Community Leadership & Civic Engagement
“Bringing folks together to catalyze”
“Putting our strengths together in a formal way.”
“Working together is smart”
•Prioritize and focus
•More teams
•Flexibility to address issues
•Collaborative within MCE
•Less individual planning and
more integration
•Regionalization
•Development of
national programs
•Partnerships
•Collaboration
•Reward team efforts
•Recognition of educators
•Reward campus faculty
for MCE work
Re-establish relationship among Extension,
Research, & Teaching