Iowa's food systems professions education nourishes the oak tree by preparing people for life in sustainable communities and in an ever-changing world. Change brought about by the vision and implementation plans are expected to have significant implications for the future of Iowa's land-grant university and community colleges. Shellie Orngard joined the staff of Vision 2020, part time in January 2000, as the editor and media resource contact for Vision 2020. Each member of the Steering Committee is also a member of a subcommittee. The objective of the subcommittee is to create opportunities for ISU and community college faculty to relate more closely to business, industry, government, and communities.
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Workshops are scheduled for the partnership participants to share their learnings and their challenges and to strategically plan ways to move their partnerships to the institutional level. The objectives of the subcommittee are to support the existing projects and to create institutional change from the learnings of the projects. Workshops are scheduled for the project participants to share their learnings and their challenges and to strategically plan ways to move their projects to the institutional level. Yearly Vision 2020 hosts an Expo to bring together projects and partnerships to share their activities with each other and with people new to Vision 2020. The objectives of the subcommittee are to actively engage faculty, staff, and administration from Iowa State University and the community colleges to think about institutional change in the areas of fostering educational collaboration, establishing partnerships with stakeholders, and promoting learner centered instructional models.