{"id":472,"date":"2015-09-18T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/?p=472"},"modified":"2015-09-18T20:39:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T20:39:53","slug":"creating-programs-that-support-lifelong-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/2015\/09\/18\/creating-programs-that-support-lifelong-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating programs that support lifelong learning:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu\/summer-2015\/growing-educated-workforce\">Bilingual education strengthens agricultural industry workforce<\/a>\u00a0Plant pathologist Luisa Santamaria teaches plant disease prevention to agricultural workers.\u00a0 Since 2011, Santamaria has reached about 500 Spanish-speaking workers from 25 nurseries through a grant awarded by the USDA and NIFA, helping to keep Oregon\u2019s $745m nursery industry healthy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/mg\/\">Master Gardeners<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/mg\/\">extend sustainable programs statewide<\/a>\u00a0The OSU Extension Master Gardener Program, taught by AgSci faculty, offers 10-week courses on natural resources and horticulture in 28 counties and <a href=\"https:\/\/pace.oregonstate.edu\/catalog\/master-gardener-online\">online<\/a>. AgSci faculty continue to support 3,800 Master Gardeners statewide as they provide public instruction in sustainable landscapes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/agricultural-education-and-agricultural-sciences\/summer-ag-institute\">Summer Ag Institute<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/agsci.oregonstate.edu\/agricultural-education-and-agricultural-sciences\/summer-ag-institute\">educates the educators<\/a>\u00a0SAI provides hands-on pedagogical experience in agriculture and natural resources to Oregon educators. Each year, two programs (in eastern and western Oregon) offer site-based science instruction and graduate credit to about 30 teachers, who in turn engage hundreds of school children with new ideas for science learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bilingual education strengthens agricultural industry workforce\u00a0Plant pathologist Luisa Santamaria teaches plant disease prevention to agricultural workers.\u00a0 Since 2011, Santamaria has reached about 500 Spanish-speaking workers from 25 nurseries through a grant awarded by the USDA and NIFA, helping to keep Oregon\u2019s $745m nursery industry healthy. Master Gardeners extend sustainable programs statewide\u00a0The OSU Extension Master [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[758458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-student-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}