The survey defined outreach as occurring whenever the university shares its knowledge with external constituencies and addresses societal issues with its community partners.
Faculty can share their knowledge with people beyond the campus in a number of different ways.
Because of the particular WFSP project focus in CALS, CALS faculty were oversampled. In most categories of outreach, CALS faculty participated more heavily than other faculty. This greater involvement of CALS faculty in part reflects the inclusion of campus-based extension appointments. Of considerable interest to sustainable agriculture advocates is with which external constituencies CALS faculty engaged most. There was no segregation of family farm businesses from corporate farm suppliers or food processors in the survey to help us interpret these numbers.