{"id":2261,"date":"2022-11-16T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2022-11-16T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:05:43","slug":"beckford-nominated-to-ecop-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/beckford-nominated-to-ecop-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckford Nominated to ECOP Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2263\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/11\/planting-garden.jpg?resize=525%2C275\" alt=\"A close up of a garden showing the soil and some plants growing, and hands planting seeds.\" width=\"525\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/11\/planting-garden.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/11\/planting-garden.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/11\/planting-garden.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UVM Extension Director Roy Beckford announced that at the 2022 joint meeting of the Extension\/Research Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, he was nominated to serve on the ECOP executive committee.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ECOP (Extension Committee on Organization and Policy), is the representative leadership and governing body of the Cooperative Extension System and focuses on four core themes:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-left: 20px\">\n<li>Build partnerships and acquire resources.<\/li>\n<li>Increase strategic marketing and communications.<\/li>\n<li>Enhance leadership and professional development.<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen organizational functioning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Among the core activities of the ECOP Executive Committee are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 20px\">\n<li>Provide central oversight to ECOPs annual goals and action plans, guided by ECOPs mission, vision, and values.<\/li>\n<li>Respond to issues and requests that require immediate action when ECOP is not in session.<\/li>\n<li>Develop, monitor, and account for the ECOP budget. Make recommendations for improvements and investments<\/li>\n<li>Support the ECOP Chair in advancing activities that support ECOPs annual areas of focus.<\/li>\n<li>Appoint, coordinate, monitor, and dismiss working groups, for defined purposes and time periods, as needed to conduct the work of the Executive Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beckford stated, &#8220;I have little doubt that serving in this capacity will provide opportunities to UVM Extension, and enable an elevated understanding of those mechanisms that contribute to our organizational growth and development.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UVM Extension Director Roy Beckford announced that at the 2022 joint meeting of the Extension\/Research Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, he was nominated to serve on the ECOP executive committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals","category-ext","category-faculty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1437,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/april-2022-cals-new-hires\/","url_meta":{"origin":2261,"position":0},"title":"April 2022 CALS New Hires","author":"CALS Communications","date":"April 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Judy Minadeo, Extension Office\/Program Support Generalist Judy Minadeo is the new program support generalist in the UM Extension Morrill Hall office. 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