Extension has more experience in this than any other organization since farming was the original home-based business. Now, Extension is involved in a multitude of home-based business developments. Change can bring stress. Schulman and Armstrong examine efforts to reduce stress among farmers. Change is also Extension's primary indicator of impact and success.
Extension is an organization of change agents.
Adamcin describes the dramatic changes that can be brought about in an inner city when change agents from several different agencies combine their efforts. You'll find more on change in the other sections of the Journal-Forum, Futures, Ideas at Work, Research in Brief, and Tools of the Trade. It's enough to make me think we ought to change our name from Journal of Extension to Journal of Extension Change. It sure beats being known as the Dead Extension System, or publishing the Journal of Extension Death. There are days when the possibility seems all too likely.