Proceedings, 1997

Membership Recruitment
We recommend that the FFA:
Retention and Participation
and Participation
1. Create a packet to help establish new collegiate FFA chapters.
2. Develop a focus for collegiate chapters by providing opportunities
for involvement and further participation in the National FFA
Organization.
3. Develop and implement leadership conferences geared toward
different levels of membership issues and needs.
4. Provide further assistance to chapters in developing and imple-
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menting the Program of Activities (i.e. train state officers, video,
and homepage).
Increase member recognition through greater media exposure via
a national newsletter, a reporter's disk and a television campaign.
6. Promote SAE diversity throughout the membership.
7. Encourage states to increase educational scholarship levels for
individual CDE state award winners.
Membership Recruitment
1
Change the appearance of materials to appeal to todays genera-
tion.
2. Create a national program administered within the state for
prospective FFA members to promote FFA awareness and foster
new membership.
3. Develop a packet to send to chapter presidents to assist with
membership recruitment and FFA awareness including a letter
from a national officer.
4. Continue and expand national media advertising using famous/
successful past FFA members to appeal to Americas youth,
exhibit the wide range of interests and to promote the National
FFA Organization.
5. Develop a sampler packet of recruitment materials available to
state associations for use in their activities.
6. Create an FFA/agricultural education information network to be
Diversity
used as a recruitment tool via the Internet.
1. Promote the benefits of FFA to those with non-agricultural
interests.
2. Publish articles in national FFA magazines highlighting the
diversity in FFA.
3. Have a campaign promoting diversity through chapter exchange
programs and recruitment packets to administrators and
educators in schools and throughout the community.
4. Provide selected FFA materials in Spanish yet also provide mam
contests in English with Spanish materials available.
5. Promote recruitment in diversity over the Internet and provide a
downloadable, pre-formatted newsletter template.
Teacher Involvement and Motivation
1 .
Educate about Reinventing Agricultural Education for the Year
2020 program through information packets made available about
2020 and other futuristic activities mailed to
agriculture teachers, agriculture professors, collegiate clubs and
high school counselors.
2. Encourage SAE programs through member and teacher interac-
tion by enforcing mandatory SAE requirements.
3. Reinstate MFE for advisors.
4. Hold a state-wide symposium for agriculture teachers to share
ideas.
5. Begin state-to-state mentoring programs which would include a
web site directory and e-mail addresses of agriculture teachers
6. Create a calendar with pertinent dates for FFA as well as FFA fun
facts.
7. Send packets to advisors' home addresses.
8. Support college programs such as Alpha Gamma Rho, Farm-
house, etc.
Respectfully submitted,
Brian Preston, Ml (Chair)
Keith Nantz, OR (Vice Chair)
Leigh Kelley.AL
Amanda Moran.AZ
Nicholas Diaz, CA
Tracy Haas, CA
Jake Parnell, CA
Joshua Taylor, CA
Brent Addison, FL
Amanda Smith, FL
Jennifer Thompson, GA
Jeanna Ebert, IL
Chris McCutchan, IN
Mary Hardy, IA
Dusty deBoer, KS
Ryan Bivens, KY
Brandon Bollich, LA
Nicholas Cole, LA
Shari Grieser, Ml
Kelly Schmidt, MN
Jon Morris, MS
Wayne Elkins, MO
Michael Stephenson, MO
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Michelle Maile, NJ
Michael Hall, NC
Jon Solberg, ND
Brandon Lawwill, OH
Kathy Banks, OK
Chase Kornegay, OK
Adam McClain, OK
Chris Pahl.OR
Nurain Badillo, PR
Michael Davis, TN
Sheryl Estes.TX
Jeff Klose.TX
Leah Reed.TX
Michael Taylor, TX
Kerry Greenhalgh, UT
Anne Adkerson.VA
Ben Grove, VA
April Purinton.VT
LeAnne Crossland.WA
Nathan Wood, WA
Kristin Haakenson.WI
Becki Sheldon, WY