Extension Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group
of the American Evaluation Association

I'm please to report that our TIG is very alive and well. While we usually wait until early in the new year to distribute a newsletter, it seemed important to communicate who your representatives are for 2000 and to convey some important changes in planning for AEA '00, slated for November 1-4 in Honolulu. Mike Duttweiler, Chair

EEE-TIG Board of Directors for 2000

Michael W. Duttweiler, Chair
Assistant Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension
383 Roberts Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: (607) 255-2105
e-mail: mwd1@cornell.edu

Nancy Ellen Kiernan, Chair-Elect and Program Contact
Program Evaluator, Penn State University
401 Ag Admin Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863 3439
e-mail: nekiernan@psu.edu

Rama Radhakrishna, Secretary/Treasurer
Clemson University
210 Barre Hall
Clemson, SC 29634
Phone: (864) 656-5818
e-mail: rrdhkrs@clemson.edu

Richard L. Poling, Past Chair
University of Tennessee
224 Morgan Hall
P.O. Box 1071
Knoxville, TN 37901-1071
Phone: (423) 974-7371
e-mail: RPoling@utk.edu

Michael E. Newman, Membership Chair
Mississippi State University
Box 9660
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone: (601) 325-3462
e-mail: mnewman@ext.msstate.edu

Nancy H. Bull, Northeastern Region Representative
Associate Dean, Outreach and Public Service Associate Director
University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System
1376 Storrs Road, U-134
Storrs, CT 06269-4134
Phone: (860) 486-1987
e-mail: Nancy.Bull@uconn.edu

Glenn D. Israel -- Southern Region Representative
University of Florida
Box 110285
Gainesville, FL 32611-0285
Phone: 352-392-0502
e-mail: reports@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

Charles D. Clark, North Central Region Representative
557 Bevier Hall
905 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-1131
e-mail: c-clark1@uiuc.edu

Molly Engle, Western Region Representative
Oregon State University
125 Ballard Extension Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-8538
Phone: (541) 737-4126
e-mail: molly.engle@orst.edu

Thanks to Outgoing Board Members
We are indebted to Richard Rohs of the University of Georgia, Susan Laughlin of the University of California at Davis, Claude Bennett of USDA, and George Mayeske of USDA, who completed terms as past president, secretary/treasurer, northeastern representative, and CSREES liaison respectively. Our thanks also go to Rich Poling, past chair, who remains on the board for another year for his strong leadership.

AEA '99
The Extension Education Evaluation Topical Interest Group (EEE-TIG) was well represented among the more than 1300 persons attending the American Evaluation Association meeting in Orlando, Florida November 3-6, 1999. The EEE-TIG sponsored two paper sessions, two panels, four round tables, and eight posters. Presenters included persons from extension organizations, CSREES, community and governmental agencies. You can find a complete list of our 1999 sessions at: http://danr.ucop.edu/eee-aea/eee-tig_sponsored_activities.htm

AEA '00 -- On the fast track!
As noted above, AEA 2000 is slated for November 1-4 in Honolulu. The overall conference theme will be "Increasing Evaluation Capacity" and special emphasis will be placed on engaging the international evaluation community. Our TIG is a strong actor in the conference offering several sessions, workshops, roundtables, posters and often pre-sessions. To generate that level of involvement and to direct attention to issues of particular relevance to extension education evaluators, our TIG issues a separate call for papers. Because of changes in the overall conference planning process and time line, that call will be coming very soon after the start of the new year. The overall AEA '00 call for proposals will follow in mid January and due date for proposal submissions will be March 31.

If you have ideas for EEE-TIG sessions, please forward them as soon as possible to Nancy Ellen Kiernan, Chair Elect and Program Chair (Phone: (814) 865 1209, e-mail: nekiernan@psu.edu). The Board will be discussing the call for papers in a conference call on December 20. Your input will be most valuable if received by Nancy Ellen prior to that call. The board also will be finalizing the paper submission process during our conference call. At this point, it is highly likely that our TIG papers will be submitted through the WWW process established by AEA and that will be described in detail in their call for proposals. We will make sure our TIG call for proposals complements and supports that process.

Here's looking to an exciting new year for EEE-TIG!

Originally sent December 8, 1999.