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Initiative 3: Enhance our Human Capital
Enhance our human capital and capacity
Maryland Cooperative Extension is committed to enhancing the capacity of its employees, including faculty, staff, and administration. However, we are constantly faced with the challenge of maintaining, recruiting, and enhancing our human capital and capacity in light of evolving learning needs, changing technology, funding constraints, and personnel retention. These challenges provide opportunities for continually adjusting the face of Extension to meet our citizens’ needs. The potential loss of knowledge, experience, and expertise as a result of turnover and retirements can have a tremendous impact on our ability to be successful in our mission. At the same time, this exodus of expertise provides opportunities for recruiting a new cadre of faculty and staff.
Strategic Actions
- Through human resource development efforts, challenge and empower our faculty, staff, and administrators to develop and deliver outstanding educational programs.
- Consider alternatives for transferring the knowledge and expertise of our experienced faculty, staff, and administrators in a manner that will ensure our continued expertise in mission critical program areas.
- Strive to hire diverse faculty, staff, and administrators that are reflective of the populations we serve.
- Evaluate the relationship between funding resources, tenure-track requirements, and the educational needs of our audiences. Ensure that tenure-track requirements for new faculty are not in conflict with the ability of faculty to meet the needs of our stakeholders.
- Strengthen our new employee orientation process to quickly assimilate new hires into our organization.
- Promote an organization that fosters a mentoring environment between new and senior faculty. Implement a structured, well thought-out, and managed mentoring program designed to orient new employees quickly and effectively.
- Provide enhanced professional development opportunities for all MCE personnel that will prepare them to lead our organization successfully into the future.
- Integrate volunteers and other community resources into our organization in order to develop their capacities to lead and serve as well as enhance Extension’s capacity to provide programs of excellence.
- Recognize and reward contributions of volunteer and salaried staff, faculty, and/or administrators using appropriate means on a regular basis.
- Evaluate our use of technology to ensure that we are making effective and efficient use of available technology as well as looking for new technologies that would enhance our human capital and capacity.
For more information, contact Jim Hanson
Last updated: 09/27/2006
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