Expected Benefits

For University of Florida IFAS Extension faculty, county commissioners of FAC and students and faculty of CALS:

  • An exciting opportunity to grow personally and professionally.
  • Continuing contact with international issues and programs.
  • A chance to view one’s work and career from different perspectives.

  •  A renewed commitment to extension and grassroots educational programming.

  • Better prepared and highly committed students for future extension careers.

  • Experience developing resource materials for international programs.

For University of Florida IFAS Extension, CALS and FAC:  

  • County extension faculty better prepared to respond to international program involvement, to the needs of people of diverse cultural, economic and social situations.

  • An integrated international dimension into ongoing extension programming.

  • A cadre of professionals with increased energy and commitment to improve extension efforts domestically and internationally.
  • An enhanced collaboration between extension faculty, local community leaders of Florida and students and faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences around the issue of international extension.

For people of Florida:

  • Professionals better prepared to serve local community needs with international understanding
  • Increased knowledge and understanding of how international issues affect daily life of individuals and families
  • Increased commitment to an internationalized extension system

  • Increased openness towards international issues and involvement with global activities such as hosting international visitors and participation in exchanges.

  • Resource information concerning county linkages within the global economy