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Chris Reinhardt, Ph.D. and Dan U. Thomson, Ph.D., D.V.M. Kansas State University

Education and Outreach... in a Flat World. Chris Reinhardt, Ph.D. and Dan U. Thomson, Ph.D., D.V.M. Kansas State University. The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman. Ten flatteners 11/9/89 : The fall of the Berlin Wall

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Chris Reinhardt, Ph.D. and Dan U. Thomson, Ph.D., D.V.M. Kansas State University

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  1. Education and Outreach... in a Flat World Chris Reinhardt, Ph.D. and Dan U. Thomson, Ph.D., D.V.M. Kansas State University

  2. The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman Ten flatteners • 11/9/89: The fall of the Berlin Wall • 8/9/95 Netscape IPO: the Internet broadened from 'early adopters and geeks' to everyone from 5-year-olds to 85-year-olds. • Workflow Software: machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved • Communities uploading and collaborating online • Outsourcing: companies split service and manufacturing activities

  3. The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman • Offshoring: relocation of services to another country that offers lower costs and fewer regulations • Supply chaining: using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and shipping. • Insourcing: Company B's employees do service processes for Company A. • In-forming: "Never before in the history of the planet have so many people—on their own—had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people," • The steroids": ‘digital, mobile, virtual, and personal'

  4. New Paradigms • Future of Traditional didactics? • Global Access • Instant gratification

  5. 36 Faculty 14 Colleges / Departments across Campus The BCI: Who Are We?

  6. Mission: • To enhance communication and collaboration across all endeavors related to beef production throughout Kansas, the U.S., and abroad

  7. Define Beef Production: • Food Safety • Animal Health and Well-Being • Production efficiency • Human Resources • Workplace safety • Economics • Technology transfer

  8. How? • Education • Research • Outreach

  9. Education: • Online access to courses • Beef production certification • Cow-calf production • Feedlot production

  10. Education: • Online access to courses • Online Masters of Science • Focusing on Beef production sciences

  11. Education: • Online MBA • Focusing on Veterinary Practice management

  12. Education: • 2 + 2 “bridge” from outlying regional HSI’s • Community Colleges • Other Universities

  13. Outreach: • Accelerate training • Throughout the Beef Industry • Ranchers • Feedlots

  14. Food Safety: • Beef Quality Assurance • Food Safety starts at the beginning of the beef production chain

  15. Beef Quality Assurance • BQA continues with disease surveillance

  16. Beef Quality Assurance • BQA includes Pharmacovigilance

  17. Beef Quality Assurance • BQA: drug usage and application

  18. Beef Quality Assurance • People

  19. How? • Training Modules • Web Accessible • Bilingual • Other potential languages

  20. What? • BQA

  21. What? • Workplace Safety

  22. What? • Production Practices

  23. What? • Infinite possibilities

  24. Why? • US agriculture has 3 looming issues:

  25. Why? • People are the future of the Beef Industry

  26. The World Has Changed– Chris Reinhardt • We are all caught up in the movement • If we don’t change, we will become dinosaurs

  27. We have a lot of people counting on us.

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