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Baton Rouge, LA – Southern University Agricultural
Research and Extension Center’s Chancellor Williams was featured in the
Times-Picayune on June 11, 2014 in an article entitled “Southern University
official has been with Cooperative Extension for 50 years.”
As the Cooperative Extension service celebrates 100
years, the LSU Agricultural Center is recognizing Leodrey Williams, who currently
works at Southern University, previously at LSU and served at the national
level in Washington, DC.
Dr. Williams has been working for the Louisiana
Cooperative Extension Service, for 50 years, half the time the Cooperative
Extension has been in existence, according to a news release from the LSU
Agricultural Center.
In 1914, the passage of the Smith-Lever Act, created a
partnership between agricultural colleges and the United States Department of
Agriculture in efforts to support agricultural extension work.
Extension work in Louisiana had only taken place through
LSU until 1971 when Southern University created its own extension office.
Williams was hired as an agriculture specialist, five
years later, he went to LSU and served as associate state agent, director of
Equal Employment Opportunity and associate professor in the Department of
Extension and International Education, positions he held for four years. In
1980, he became extension director at Southern University. Soon after, Williams
would move to Washington DC where he served as the national director of the
Cooperative Extension Service, making him responsible for funding extension
programs at 104 land-grant universities around the country.
Williams returned to SU and took on his previous role as
extension director in 1995. Then, in 2001 Williams was asked to head the
newly-formed Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
"No matter what you do, whether it's in community
development, if it's in small business development, it's enhancing the
socioeconomic quality of life for people," Williams said. "You have
more people now than you had 100 years ago. As long as there are people with
problems, there will be a need for extension service."
For the past 50 years, Dr. Leodrey Williams has been working
with SU and LSU in Baton Rouge, as well as Washington DC at the national
level, in Cooperative Extension service.
The
full article is available at NOLA.com
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Contact:
Bridget Udoh
(225) 771-5714
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