Special Issue: Urban Extension
Editor’s Introduction to This Special Issue
This special issue of the Journal of Human Sciences and Extension focuses on urban Extension, offering a comprehensive series of articles from experts who have synthesized our changing urban landscape of opportunity. Our hope is that these articles will position, guide, and inform program, policy, and system decisions by honoring the past and driving us energetically towards the future vitality of Extension as we serve the changing demographics of our country.
Full Issue
Full Issue, Volume 5, Number 2
Julie Fox and Donna J. Peterson
From the Editors
Discovering What Makes Urban Extension Unique Within the Interdependent Urban–Rural Continuum: Editors’ Introduction to the Urban Extension-Themed Issue of JHSE
Julie Fox and Donna J. Peterson
Original Research
America’s Changing Urban Landscape: Positioning Extension for Success
Marie A. Ruemenapp
Extension in the City: Meeting the Challenges of Scale
Jennifer Sarah Tiffany
Tampa Bay Extension Agents’ Views of Urban Extension: Philosophy and Program Strategies
Amy Harder and Ondine Wells
Involving Extension in Urban Food Systems: An Example from California
Lucy Diekmann, Rob Bennaton, Jessica Schweiger, and Cole Smith
Community-Based Green Infrastructure, A Rutgers Cooperative Extension Urban Extension Initiative
Christopher C. Obropta
Creating Inclusive Youth Programs for LGBTQ+ Communities
Katherine E. Soule
Urban Extension: Aligning with the Needs of Urban Audiences Through Subject-Matter Centers
Brad Gaolach, Michael Kern, and Christina Sanders
Urban Extension–Reflections on the Past–A Look to the Future
Jeffery A. Young and Kenneth Jones
