Satisfaction Report - ANR Retreat 2025

[Gouge, Dawn H - (dhgouge)]

Hello All,

64% of attendees (44) responded to the ANR Retreat satisfaction survey. Thank you.
Here are the results:


  *   96% of attendees felt welcome.


  *   After two months the following things have proven beneficial to their Extension program:



     *   getting to interact with Heads of Departments, County Extension Directors, and Extension/Experiment Station Administrators - 92% of people
     *   Networking as a group - 83%
     *   The majority of respondents indicated benefits from hearing about: specific programs efforts, the "Unpanel" discussion, hearing about APR & promotion information, having a State Dept. of Ag update, and the program development sessions led by Peter Ellsworth and Chrisopher Jones.
  *   79% of respondents indicated their professional skills had improved as a result of their participation, 13% indicated possible improvements, and 8% indicated no improvement.
  *   Participants shared the following intent:
     *   "Communicate with people from other counties I meet at the retreat.
     *   Rent a vehicle instead of driving my personal vehicle (I do not have a work vehicle-so you already know I am not a county agent)
     *   I will reach out to the connections I made.
     *   I really appreciated discussion about the different ways to do extension, and relying on your own "brand" of doing it while also learning from others. I have reached out to colleagues about different means of needs assessment but am also trying to lean in more to my own way of reaching out to stakeholders
     *   The unpanel was awesome, will look for ways to use this at stakeholder events!
     *   Please include IRes and tribal extension programs.
     *   Get more involvement in FRTEP Programs.  FRTEP Agents do a presentation on their programs.
     *   Since this meeting, I've become more aware of the value of broader collaboration, and I plan to seek out more opportunities across teams and disciplines to amplify our impact and share resources
     *   I'm going to think more about how to use the un-panel approach in our Extension programming.
     *   Not to hesitate to collaborate with State Specialists and Area Agents for programming assistance.
     *   Work with co-workers more often
     *   Start thinking about developing strategies to assess impacts of my program
     *   Include Department Heads & Experiment Station Director in statewide outreach efforts"
  *   76% of respondents indicated extreme satisfaction and 24% were somewhat satisfied with the event.
  *   96% felt the event was worth their time and effort and 4% felt it was somewhat worth their investment.
  *   Problems we need to focus improvement on included:
     *   Improving communication ahead of the event.
     *   TAs should be set-up universally and travel reimbursement simpler.



I am happy to say that both areas of improvement have improved as the result of efforts undertaken by our Program Coordinator Jessica Amavizca, Associate Director Dominic Rodriguez, and entirely coincidental updating of the instate TA process.



Best wishes, Dawn.

Dawn H. Gouge PhD - pronounced Goosh (she/her) - Please do not feel obligated to respond out of your normal working hours. Please be assured that I respect different working patterns and time zones and look forward to your response when you are next at work and able to reply.

Interim Associate Director for Agriculture & Natural Resources - Cooperative Extension
Medical Entomology Professor & Public Health Professor & IPM Specialist - Department of Entomology

University of Arizona, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences.
MAC Experiment Station, 37860 West Smith-Enke Road, Maricopa, AZ 85138.
Office 520-374-6223; Mobile 602-418-5202; Fax 520-374-6394
dhgouge at arizona.edu<mailto:dhgouge at arizona.edu>

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