February 18-21, 2003 Highlights
Utah
State Econ Professors Receive National Editorship
 Dee
Von Bailey, professor of agricultural economics at Utah State
University, has been selected as editor for the national Journal
of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The prestigious journal
is published by the Western Agricultural Economics Association.
Other professors in the economics department — Terry Glover,
Paul Jakus and David Aadland — serve as associate editors
for the journal. The economics department is in the College
of Business.
"The selection of this set of editors demonstrates the
regard agricultural and resource economics professions have
for the economics department at Utah State University,"
Bailey said.
This is a great opportunity for Utah State because editors can
help shape the discussion of important economic issues. These
issues include the economics of water quality improvements,
reduced copper contamination and genetically modified seed.
The editors also discuss the demand for beef products, farmland
values, the effect of government price supports on price variability,
the efficiency of small landholders and the well being of non-metropolitan,
single-mother families.
"These issues are especially important in the West —
and specifically Utah — where so many significant agricultural
and resource conflicts have surfaced," he said.
Bailey will work closely with the associate editors for the
journal. Jakus specializes in resource economics, emphasizing
recreation economics. Aadland is an expert in econometrics,
and Glover is an authority on agricultural production and trade
economics.
Utah
State Extension in Rich County---
High
School Seniors Fill Mentoring Role
 It's
not quite a one-room schoolhouse, but it is the same school
that serves grades one through 12, which can sometimes make
it tough for younger kids to fit in or make them easy targets
for bullying. Extension brought the Youth and Families with
Promise program to the rural county as a way of helping at-risk
youth. While other areas of Utah using the program use college
students or adults to be mentors, in this rural area, high school
seniors have had to take on this responsibility.
Youth ages 10-14 are referred to Extension's program from schools,
juvenile courts, community and religious organizations, or from
parents. Extension recruits and trains mentors to pair with
youth. Mentors provide motivation and tutoring in reading and
academic skills and participate with youth in 4-H and other
structured recreation and community service activities. Grandmentors
(couples who act as grandparents to the youth) are also recruited.
Youth and mentors participate in monthly group activities and
are joined by grandmentors and parents every other month for
Family Night Out activities.
"It has worked out great," says YFP site coordinator
Colleen Barthlome. "In addition to regular mentoring visits,
the high school seniors are with the younger kids throughout
the day. They see each other in the hallways and at lunch. So,
the younger kids feel safer and less likely to get picked on.
"About one-third of the senior graduating class is involved
in the program and we've never had a mentor quit the program,"
Barthlome says. "After some early reluctance, the school
superintendent has given his full support to the program."
To find out more about Rich County, click
here. For more about Extension in other counties take the
Extension
tour of Utah.
Emeritus
Faculty Member Receives Excellence in Education Award at the
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Former Utah State theatre arts faculty member and department
head W. Vosco Call received the "Excellence in Education
Award" at the recently completed Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival. Call, also the founder of the Old
Lyric Repertory Company, was honored for his contribution to
theatre during his time at Utah State University.
Each year the festival makes a special presentation to an educator
whose career has reflected the highest standards of the discipline.
This is the second time a Utah State faculty member has received
the award. Sid Perkes, another former department head, received
the award at a previous festival.
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