Clouser named first UF/IFAS senior fellow with Florida Association of Counties
UF’s partnership with the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) has become even deeper.
Rodney Clouser, a public policy professor with IFAS’ Food and Resource Economics Department, has worked with the association since the mid-1980s and has just been named the first UF/IFAS-FAC senior fellow.
But his “broader and more encompassing-type role” now may include such things as aiding the group’s educational programs, helping with ways to deliver and maybe even internal research on public policy questions.
For years, Clouser has worked with the association’s new commissioner orientation and a voluntary certification program for commissioners. The organization also offers the Florida Forum, advanced education for commissioners who’ve earned certification.
Clouser will work to enhance the commissioner certification and Florida Forum programs.
Similar associations across the country have taken steps to partner more closely with extension efforts, Clouser said, and this puts Florida on par with Minnesota, Georgia and the National Association of Counties.
The Florida Association of Counties is a nonprofit that represents the state’s 67 county governments. Started in 1998, the county commissioner certification program has trained nearly 200 county commissioners in the complexities of county government and public life.
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FAC senior fellow Rodney Clouser
