Cooperative Extension System
- Dennis Daggett (Deactivated)
A federal-state-local cooperative education system that provides continuing adult education based on the academic programs of the land grant colleges of agriculture and their affiliated state agricultural experiment stations. A system of State, local, and Federal organizations (Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service) working together to provide practical educational services outside the classroom on agriculture, household management, and other topics. States participate mostly through their Land-Grant Universities, while the Federal partner is USDA’s Extension Service. About half of Extension’s education programs focus on agriculture and natural resources, one-quarter on youth development (including the vocational 4-H program), and the balance on home economics and community resource development work.
Authorization Path: 1.2.1.2.12.0