Land grant universities have served society by applying
knowledge to problems of agriculture, industry, and community
living through the various disciplines of science, technology,
and the liberal arts for over one hundred years. Extension
services provided land grant universities an outreach into
the communities for informal education and technical assistance.
This study presents an organizational model for an Interstate
Metropolitan Extension Service Authority (IMESA) for the
Washington, D.C. area. An IMESA could help to provide economies
of scale for existing resources. It could provide access
to more and new resources only available to an areawide entity,
Improved informal education programs and technical assistance-and
thereby maximized utilization of present and future extension
services in the District of Columbia and nearby Maryland and
Virginla--could result.
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