Principles of County Administration

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"The local Cooperative Extension Service office," according to the Joint USDA/NASULGC Extension Study Committee, "should be a place where the individual citizen can obtain information about the total array of problems and services available from federal, state, and local agencies of government, including those of the land-grant universities and colleges." In addition to this aspect of the increasing complexity of the local Extension office, other recommendations of the Committee provide clues as to th magnitude of the job confronting the adminstrator of the local Extension office: e.g., (1) area staffing-- with continued budget contributions from local sources (including cities as well as counties); (2) more staff specialization at county, area, and state levels; (3) substantial numbers of technicians (subprofessionals) and professionals to be added in an increasingly wide variety of areas of program emphases. The following article enumerates and elaborates briefly the generally accepted guidelines (principles) of administration that relate specifically to the county Extension administrator's responsibility for providing leadership for the local staff and expanded program. --The editor.