- NCEAexec - NU mailman

Board Meeting
by Rhonda Herrick 30 Apr '26

30 Apr '26

Just a reminder that we will have a Exec Board Meeting tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. I am attaching the agenda for the meeting. See you all tomorrow!! Rhonda Herrick Franklin County Extension P.O. Box 266 Franklin NE 68939 308-425-6277 Kearney County Extension P.O. Box 31 Minden NE 68959 308-832-0645 Cell: 308-470-0764

1 0

NCEA Exec Meeting
by Rhonda Herrick 24 Apr '26

24 Apr '26

Rhonda Herrick is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://unl.zoom.us/j/97556367152__;!!PvXuogZ4s… Meeting ID: 975 5636 7152 --- One tap mobile +16699006833,,97556367152# US (San Jose) 17193594580,,97556367152# US --- Join by SIP * 97556367152(a)zoomcrc.com Join instructions https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://unl.zoom.us/meetings/97556367152/invita…

1 0

Next Meeting
by Rhonda Herrick 24 Apr '26

24 Apr '26

Good morning! Let's meet next Friday, May 1st at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Please let me know if you have anything you would like on the agenda. Thanks everyone!! Have a great weekend!! Rhonda Rhonda Herrick Franklin County Extension P.O. Box 266 Franklin NE 68939 308-425-6277 Kearney County Extension P.O. Box 31 Minden NE 68959 308-832-0645 Cell: 308-470-0764

1 0

New Meeting Time Poll
by Rhonda Herrick 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

Let's just try this again and pick a different date. I don't see this being a very long meeting. Here is a link to a new poll: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/dGXNR… Thank you! Rhonda Rhonda Herrick Franklin County Extension P.O. Box 266 Franklin NE 68939 308-425-6277 Kearney County Extension P.O. Box 31 Minden NE 68959 308-832-0645 Cell: 308-470-0764

1 0

NCEA Board Meeting
by Rhonda Herrick 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

I have to apologize with the craziness of programming right now the NCEA Exec meeting fell off my radar. I am so sorry! I know that many of you could meet tomorrow morning when I first put this out there. Would 9:30 am still work? Let me know. If not I will send out another poll. Again I am so sorry that I let the ball drop! Rhonda Rhonda Herrick Franklin County Extension P.O. Box 266 Franklin NE 68939 308-425-6277 Kearney County Extension P.O. Box 31 Minden NE 68959 308-832-0645 Cell: 308-470-0764

1 0

Next NCEA Exec Board Meeting
by Rhonda Herrick 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Thanks to all for a great meeting last week. Our next meeting will be an Exec meeting. I have created a doodle for you to respond to for a possible date. Not sure how it is almost April!! The link is: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/b2qoD… Have a wonderful week!! Rhonda Rhonda Herrick Franklin County Extension P.O. Box 266 Franklin NE 68939 308-425-6277 Kearney County Extension P.O. Box 31 Minden NE 68959 308-832-0645 Cell: 308-470-0764

1 1

FW: Lapsed NCEA Members
by Rhonda Herrick 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Forwarding for Ben! Thanks Ben for the update! From: Ben Beckman <ben.beckman(a)unl.edu> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2026 11:40 AM To: nceaexec(a)lists.unl.edu Subject: Lapsed NCEA Members All, Here's the list of folks that have lapsed memberships I mentioned during our meeting last week: First name Last name Email Office City NCEA Section(s) Membership level Membership status Member since Renewal due Notes Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel cburkhartkriesel1(a)unl.edu<mailto:cburkhartkriesel1@unl.edu> Scottsbluff, NE ESP, NACDEP NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 06/10/2021 11/15/2025 Paying Section Dues Directly Mary Drewnoski mdrewnoski2(a)unl.edu<mailto:mdrewnoski2@unl.edu> Lincoln Ag Section NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 03/18/2025 11/15/2025 Marina Duarte de Val mduartedeval2(a)unl.edu<mailto:mduartedeval2@unl.edu> Tekamah Ag Section NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 05/03/2024 11/20/2025 Hannah Guenther hannah.guenther(a)unl.edu<mailto:hannah.guenther@unl.edu> West Point NEAFCS NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 06/10/2021 11/20/2025 Shawn Kaskie shawn.kaskie(a)unl.edu<mailto:shawn.kaskie@unl.edu> Broken Bow NACDEP NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 06/10/2021 11/20/2025 Brittany Kolterman bkolterman2(a)unl.edu<mailto:bkolterman2@unl.edu> Pierce NAE4-HYDP NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 10/27/2023 11/20/2025 Charlotte Narjes cnarjes1(a)unl.edu<mailto:cnarjes1@unl.edu> Lincoln NACDEP NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 06/10/2021 11/20/2025 Brandy Schulze bschulze(a)unl.edu<mailto:bschulze@unl.edu> Lincoln NAE4-HYDP NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 10/15/2021 11/15/2024 Jordan Wilbur jordan.wilbur(a)unl.edu<mailto:jordan.wilbur@unl.edu> Kearney NAE4-HYDP NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 11/09/2022 11/20/2025 I've contacted most folks who have no section and are working on correcting that. Brad Lubben and Dipak Santra are the only two I haven't gotten a hold of yet. The list is here though to share: First name Last name Email Office City NCEA Section(s) Membership level Membership status Member since Renewal due Notes Bradley Lubben brad.lubben(a)unl.edu<mailto:brad.lubben@unl.edu> Lincoln NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 09/01/2021 11/15/2024 John Re john.re(a)unl.edu<mailto:john.re@unl.edu> Lincoln NCEA/Active Member Active 09/05/2025 11/20/2026 OK Caitlin Roes croes2(a)nebraska.edu<mailto:croes2@nebraska.edu> Rushville NCEA/Active Member Pending - New 01/24/2025 11/15/2025 Reached out to Dipak Santra dsantra2(a)unl.edu<mailto:dsantra2@unl.edu> Scottsbluff NCEA/Active Member Lapsed 11/15/2024 11/15/2025 Megan Sobczyk mpetsch3(a)unl.edu<mailto:mpetsch3@unl.edu> Omaha NCEA/Active Member Active 11/04/2024 11/20/2026 Reached out to Linda Tempel ltempel1(a)unl.edu<mailto:ltempel1@unl.edu> Lincoln NCEA/Active Member Active 11/15/1990 11/20/2026 OK David Wangila dwangila2(a)unl.edu<mailto:dwangila2@unl.edu> Clay Center NCEA/Active Member Active 10/22/2025 11/20/2026 Reached out to -Ben [cid:e70959e5-04d3-4b98-aa74-ac5595b748f3] ________________________________ [cid:aaa378b8-2116-4261-bf2f-c1ff7081fefe] Ben Beckman Livestock Systems Assoc. Extension Educator Nebraska SARE Co-Coordinator 101 E Center P.O. Box 368 Hartington, NE 68739 402-254-6821 ben.beckman(a)unl.edu<mailto:ben.beckman@unl.edu>

1 0

NCEA Exec Board Meeting-February
by Rhonda Herrick 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

Rhonda Herrick is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://unl.zoom.us/j/96986838232__;!!PvXuogZ4s… Meeting ID: 969 8683 8232 --- One tap mobile +13462487799,,96986838232# US (Houston) +16694449171,,96986838232# US --- Join by SIP * 96986838232(a)zoomcrc.com Join instructions https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://unl.zoom.us/meetings/96986838232/invita…

1 0

FW: HELP! With an NCEA Award Recipient!
by Jessica Groskopf 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

All, See the request to break the tie for the Late Career award. Please review the attached nominations and cast your vote by the end of the week here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://unlcorexmuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d… [cid:image002.gif@01DC52EB.E71B4AF0] Jessica Groskopf Exten Educator Director, Nebraska Women in Agriculture University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Rsch & Ext Center 3086321247<tel:3086321247> | jgroskopf2(a)unl.edu<mailto:jgroskopf2@unl.edu> | wia(a)unl.edu<mailto:wia@unl.edu> Need to meet with me? Book a meeting here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://calendly.com/hellojessicag__;!!PvXuogZ4… From: Ashley Fenning <astevens4(a)nebraska.edu> Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:01 PM To: Jessica Groskopf <jgroskopf2(a)nebraska.edu> Subject: HELP! With an NCEA Award Recipient! Hi Jessica, We held our NCEA Awards and Recognition meeting, and there is a tie for the Late Career Award Recipient between F. John Hay and Ann Fenton (John received two nominations, just a little note). I have attached the nominations. Please send this to your executive board and see if you can get feedback. If you would like to break the tie yourself, I am okay with that as well. The more people involved, the better. If you have any other suggestions for breaking ties in the future, please don't hesitate to let me know, as this will be an agenda item for our committee meeting. Thanks! [University of Nebraska – Lincoln] Ashley Fenning Exten Instructor Food, Nutrition and Health University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE Ext Engagement Zone 1 514 Main St Bridgeport, NE 69336 3082621022<tel:3082621022>

1 0

FW: NCEA Award Nomination and Nominee Guidelines
by Jessica Groskopf 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

From: Amy Timmerman <atimmerman2(a)unl.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 4:07 PM To: Jessica Groskopf <jjohnson(a)unl.edu>; NCEA Exec <nceaexec(a)lists.unl.edu> Subject: RE: NCEA Award Nomination and Nominee Guidelines Team, I will provide some insight on the Support Staff Award since I was chair of the Award Committee when this was developed. The Support Staff Award was originally designed to recognize our office managers and office assistants for all the great work they do. Their outstanding effort in all reality makes us look good. So, these individuals would be the ones attending Front Door Forum not NCEA. Personally, for my office managers I would not recommend them to be members of NCEA because overall it would not be of benefit for them. I highly encourage them to attend Front Door Forum because this is more valuable to them overall. Plus, that would require our office to be closed because we are all attending the same meeting which would not make my county supervisors very happy. I know that Linda Temple, Angie Rushman and Mike Bergland-Reis were our exception to the rule of "office/support staff" being members of NCEA. But I believe we all can agree that they work at a totally different level then any of our other office support staff. So, the recipient does not have to be a NCEA member. But I do believe there needs to an individual in that office that is an NCEA member and be part of the application process. Even if the non-NCEA member is the one who suggested the recommendation. That's my two cents. Thanks, Amy [cid:image003.png@01DC42AD.1B8C7EC0] Amy Timmerman Cropping & Water Extension Educator Holt and Boyd Counties Engagement Zone 2 128 N 6th Street Suite 100 O'Neill, NE 68763 Phone: 402.336.2760 Cell: 402.430.5187 From: Jessica Groskopf <jjohnson(a)unl.edu<mailto:jjohnson@unl.edu>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 4:30 PM To: NCEA Exec <nceaexec(a)lists.unl.edu<mailto:nceaexec@lists.unl.edu>> Subject: [NCEAexec] FW: NCEA Award Nomination and Nominee Guidelines Can you all provide feedback on Ashley's questions below. My knee jerk reaction is that at least the recipient needs to be and NCEA member. I look forward to your prompt response. [cid:image004.gif@01DC42AD.1B8C7EC0] Jessica Groskopf Exten Educator Director, Nebraska Women in Agriculture University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Rsch & Ext Center 3086321247<tel:3086321247> | jgroskopf2(a)unl.edu<mailto:jgroskopf2@unl.edu> | wia(a)unl.edu<mailto:wia@unl.edu> Need to meet with me? Book a meeting here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://calendly.com/hellojessicag__;!!PvXuogZ4… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/calendly.com/hellojessicag__;!!PvXuogZ4s…> From: Ashley Fenning <astevens4(a)nebraska.edu<mailto:astevens4@nebraska.edu>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 1:47 PM To: Jessica Groskopf <jgroskopf2(a)nebraska.edu<mailto:jgroskopf2@nebraska.edu>> Subject: NCEA Award Nomination and Nominee Guidelines Hi Jessica, I received this questions: A co-worker who is not a member of NCEA submitted a NCEA Award application for another colleague who is also not an NCEA member (come to find out it is for the Outstanding Support Staff Award). They are wondering if that is ok or if a NCEA member needs to submit the NCEA award application. So I started rabbit hole thinking and I think we approved to allow support staff to be members of NCEA. Is that correct? I couldn't find it in the bylaws, it says, Any Extension Specialist, Educator or Managerial-Professional Staff Person (4-H Assistant, Extension Technologist, Program Assistant, 4-H Aide or the equivalent)receiving a salary from Cooperative Extension. (Including but not limited to all funding sources such as county, state and grant funds) So, my questions for you: * Do nominators need to be NCEA members? * Do recipients need to be NCEA members? (I know outside partner in education wouldn't be members or possibly Excellence in extension advocacy, but what about support staff?) Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions, or if I need to ask others, I would appreciate your feedback. Thanks! [University of Nebraska – Lincoln] Ashley Fenning Exten Instructor Food, Nutrition and Health University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE Ext Engagement Zone 1 514 Main St Bridgeport, NE 69336 3082621022<tel:3082621022>

1 0

2026

2025

NCEAexec ----- 2026 ----- June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 ----- 2025 ----- December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025

NCEAexec