KASC: Milestones in Research & Extension
The Director for Extension Services
The Max Factor: A Thinker who Tinkers with People’s Lives
Dr. Maximo B. Garming's profile at the PSPA website. He was a Board Member of said Society.
Dr. Maximo B. Garming's induction as a PSPA Board Member, with Vice President Jejomar Binay administering the oath of office.
The Manual of Operations for Extension defines the Extension Program of KASC. This output, produced under Dr. Garming's time as Director, guides extension agents in their crafting of proposals that must be aligned with the goals and objectives of the Program - while also reflecting the extension agenda of the office.
Within the pages are the priority areas for proposing extension projects as well as the procedures that must be observed in the submission of papers.
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by MARCIANO A. PAROY JR.
Extending a life-changing project that has been designed to enable development processes within a targeted group has always relied heavily on the delivery mechanism programmed to convey and transfer the benefits and advantages imbedded in the project. Whatever size the project may be, and whatever scope it professes to contain, the diffusion system through which it reaches its intended clientele must be carefully laid out that it even covers alternative actions directly answering incidental lapses and mishaps, including occurrences beyond human control.
A receiving group for an extension activity will of course perceive only the current run of events – with the extension agent dispensing information, teaching skills, or handing out materials required by the skills being taught. What is invisible, and no longer within the clientele’s interest to even think of, is the planning that gave birth to the very activity playing out before them – the strategizing and finalizing stages that led to the creation of the activity under which the expert and the less-equipped meet.
Given all the requirements of an extension activity – which is somewhat pre-visualized with all possible scenarios, thereby necessitating the infusion of pre-emptive measures – the person then at the helm of the office tasked to carry out the delivery of extension services should, first and foremost, be a thinker.
Sir Max is a thinker.
Having sat as the Director for Extension Services of the Kalinga-Apayao State College since 2006 – a stint which will conclude within the school year when he steps down prior to his retirement – Dr. Maximo B. Garming has always exhibited a soft spot for the marginalized, the less-educated, the unexposed, the untrained, the indigenous, the vulnerable… in short, all groupings and categories that are ideally within the coverage of a well-designed extension program.
Extension agents, beginning at the planning phase that jumpstarts an undertaking, tinker with the lives of the people comprising the community which the extension program seeks to prod into the path of development. There is no extension agent that, to some extent, does not leave a mark in the daily struggle of his audience towards meaningful change. Assuming that the extension program wholly addresses the information-training-material needs of the recipient group, and that everything is in place for the delivery machineries to run as planned, then the extension agents can be expected to do well within the bounds of expected performance – thus effectively projecting a positive image of the agency or organization that did the reaching out.
KASC extension agents have never gone astray – and their work has always been cast under positive light, thanks to the advanced thinking that can be traced all the way back to the Office of the Extension Director.
Knock at the Office, and you’ll have Sir Max.