UNIVERSITY OF MAINE COOPERATIVE EXTENSION: STATEWIDE COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT DATA COLLECTION
The UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (PIE Center) is pleased to assist the University of Maine Cooperative Extension – referred to below as “UMaine Extension” – with its statewide community needs assessment. The PIE Center is helping collect data to understand the needs of Maine’s people and organizations. UMaine Extension will use this data to decide what programs we offer in the future, and how we spend state and federal money. We believe the PIE Center will be able to assist UMaine Extension in achieving the goals of:
- Understand public awareness of UMaine Extension as a brand and a trusted source of information.
- Provide UMaine Extension programming and resources that are based on community needs, including but not limited to, historically and currently underserved people.
- Respond to critical issues facing Maine’s population.
- Ensure UMaine Extension supports rural, suburban, and urban communities.
- Build upon UMaine Extension’s successes and decide areas of focus for the future.
- Remain grounded in the organization’s principles and values, central to the land-grant mission.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORK OF UMAINE EXTENSION?
The PIE Center is seeking information from anyone familiar with UMaine Extension. The following is a series of questions for you to share your opinion(s) about the current work and future focus of the UMaine Extension. Your responses will remain anonymous, and data will be combined and reported by theme with supporting quotes identified by the group, not by individual participants.
For full details, you can view and download the project consent form here. If you voluntarily consent to participate in this study, we thank you for sharing your valuable viewpoint in your responses to the following questions.
University of Maine Land Acknowledgement
The University of Maine recognizes that it is located on Marsh Island in the homeland of the Penobscot Nation, where issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites, are ongoing. Penobscot homeland is connected to the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations — the Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Mi’kmaq — through kinship, alliances and diplomacy. The university also recognizes that the Penobscot Nation and the other Wabanaki Tribal Nations are distinct, sovereign, legal and political entities with their own powers of self-governance and self-determination.
