Anniversaries and funding crises prompt periodic calls to reevaluate the mission and public perceptions of the U.S. Land-Grant University system. One such call was issued by the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State Colleges and Land Grant Universities in their 1999 report, “Returning to Our Roots: the Engaged Institution.” Written by leaders of state universities and land-grant colleges, this report urges these institutions to engage more authentically and equitably in two-way relationships with their local constituents. Twenty years later, Land-Grant Universities continue to struggle with building widespread public support for their missions and equitable involvement in research, teaching, and extension functions across diverse constituencies. While largely discounted by the Kellogg Commission, a fresh look at the role originally envisioned for the extension arm of the trifold land-grant mandate suggests that we may be conceiving of this system too narrowly. The establishment of statewide extension systems was once seen as a way to ensure that Land-Grant Universities would be accessible and responsive to all of a state’s residents. Extension systems continue to offer a front-door to a major public university in almost every county of the United States, but they tend to be viewed primarily as a way to translate science or distribute information from the university to the public. This discussion uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies.

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激进的根源和二十一世纪的现实：重新发现赠地大学扩建项目的平等愿望

周年纪念日和资金危机促使定期呼吁重新评估美国赠地大学系统的使命和公众看法。凯洛格州立学院和赠地大学未来委员会在其 1999 年的报告“回归本源：参与的机构”中发出了这样的呼吁。这份由州立大学和赠地学院的领导人撰写的报告敦促这些机构更真实、更公平地与当地选民建立双向关系。二十年后，赠地大学继续努力为其使命建立广泛的公众支持，并公平参与不同选区的研究、教学和推广职能。虽然凯洛格委员会在很大程度上打了折扣，重新审视最初设想的三重赠地任务扩展臂的作用表明，我们可能对这一制度的构想过于狭隘。全州推广系统的建立曾经被视为确保赠地大学能够访问并响应所有州居民的一种方式。推广系统继续为美国几乎每个县的主要公立大学提供前门，但它们往往主要被视为一种将科学转化为科学或从大学向公众分发信息的方式。本次讨论使用历史和现代的视角来重新设想扩展在促进赠地大学与其不同的当地选民之间的互惠、共同学习关系方面可能发挥的作用。