News Release
For Immediate Release —October 2, 2008
UT Extension Agent honored with national service award
Knoxville, Tenn. — The National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences has honored University of Tennessee Extension Agent II Carla Bush as a national winner of a Distinguished Service Award in the 2008 NEAFCS Awards of Excellence Program.
Bush, a family and consumer sciences agent with the UT Extension Cannon County Office, received the award for her “dynamic leadership and creative implementation of Extension programs and for personal and professional growth,” according to the organization.
Bush has been with UT Extension full time for 11 years. In Cannon County, she delivers a wide range of programs for youth and adults focused on improving financial security, wellbeing, and health.
The NEAFCS awards program provides recognition for Extension agents across the nation in areas of professional development, communications, program development and public relations. This year, there were more than 500 award applications submitted for the competition. Being selected as a regional or national winner is a very impressive accomplishment.
You can learn more about UT Extension programs in Cannon County at http://cannon.tennessee.edu/, by calling (615) 563-2554, or stopping by its Woodbury office at 614 Lehman Street. In addition, UT Extension maintains a range of publications and informational resources at its central Web site, http://utextension.tennessee.edu/.
In Cannon County, and Tennessee’s other 94 counties, UT Extension operates as the off-campus division of the UT Institute of Agriculture. It is a statewide educational organization, funded by federal, state and local governments, that brings research-based information about agriculture, family and consumer sciences, and resource development to the people of Tennessee where they live and work.
Extension agents like Bush are supported by area and state faculty as well as by the educational and research resources and activities of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 74 land-grant universities, and 3,150 county units throughout the nation. The stated mission of the system is to help people improve their lives through an educational process that uses scientific knowledge to address issues and needs.
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Contact: Carla Bush, (615) 563-2554
Margot Emery, (865) 974-7141