You could be one in a million

By Randy Woodson, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture

One way to measure an effort's value is to calculate the number of lives directly affected by the endeavor. For example, if you look at Purdue University's Cooperative Extension Service, the number of people helped in the past year exceeds 1 million.

However, numbers don't tell the whole story. Some Purdue Extension programs may reach only a handful of people, but, for those individuals, the effort is truly valuable. Every year Purdue Extension helps people from all walks of life enhance their lives and livelihoods with unbiased, research-based information.

As the new year approaches, I'm reminded that Purdue Extension touches individuals. Each person who participated in a Purdue Extension program in the past year is one in a million. And that's how we like to view them—not as a massive number but as unique persons whose specific needs were met through our educational programs.