{"id":363,"date":"2011-04-25T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/?p=363"},"modified":"2011-04-25T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:48:38","slug":"hanging-up-the-extension-cuts-off-rural-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/2011\/04\/25\/hanging-up-the-extension-cuts-off-rural-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging up the Extension cuts off rural Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Published: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 4:09 PM<\/h5>\n

By David Sarasohn, the Oregonian<\/p>\n

In July 2009, Sonny Ramaswamy arrived as dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The next Monday, he was told to cut $10 million from his budget.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing beats an Oregon welcome.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, in an even less hospitable budgetary time, he\u2019s looking at another agricultural famine. Three service programs out of Oregon State \u2014 the Oregon Extension Service, the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Forest Research Laboratory \u2014 face a budget cut of almost 19 percent. It\u2019s a considerably larger cut than even the rest of higher ed, and the shrugging suggestion that universities can just raise tuition doesn\u2019t even apply to these programs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSo many of the services they provide really are targeted to people who need help,\u201d says Ed Ray, OSU president. \u201cYou can start charging rural folks for agricultural help, and for being in 4-H, but they don\u2019t have any money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which is more or less the point.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In rural Oregon, the recession didn\u2019t start in 2008, but somewhere closer to 1982. Those counties have the highest unemployment levels, and outsized hunger rates, often in the middle of some of the richest land in the world. The three programs \u2014 supporters tend to refer to them collectively as \u201cthe Statewides,\u201d a verbal password indicating not just knowing the programs but valuing them \u2014 are efforts to provide some support, and some connection, to those parts of Oregon.<\/p>\n

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