Evaluation, Program, and Employee Development
Vision
The Evaluation, Program, and Employee Development unit increases VCE’s capacity to advance the wellbeing of all Virginians by ensuring our faculty, staff, and volunteers have the skills, tools, and resources to deliver high quality, needs driven, research-based Extension educational programs.
Purpose
The EPED unit focuses on three areas of Extension work:
- Extension program development and evaluation
- Professional Development and Training ensuring agents have access to needs-specific professional development to support their communities. This includes internally focused onboarding and staff development and externally focused professional development and coursework/learning modules.
- Data integration including data analysis and extraction, data dashboards and data visualizations
Faculty
Sarah Baughman, Ph.D.
Extension Leader
Evaluation, Program, and Employee Development
baughman@vt.edu
540-231-7142
Dave Close
Associate Specialist
Volunteer Engagement
dclose@vt.edu
540-231-4026
Bethany Eigel
Associate Specialist
Employee Development
baeigel@vt.edu
804-385-0398
Matt Lail
Extension Coordinator
mlail@vt.edu
Brigitte Scott, Ph.D.
National Project Leader
OneOp Leadership Team
https://oneop.org/
brigit2@vt.edu
Molly Herndon
Program Development Specialist
OneOp Leadership Team
mollych@vt.edu
Kalin Goble, M.S.
Program Development Specialist
OneOp Military Community Advocacy Program
kmgoble@vt.edu
Jason Jowers, M.S., M.F.T
Program Coordination Specialist
OneOp Military Community Advocacy Program
jmjowers@vt.edu
OneOp supports the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness System by growing the professional knowledge, readiness, and networks of the service providers supporting our military service members and their families. Our free and open-access resources are created in collaboration with DoD and university subject matter experts and offer continuing education credits spanning a wide variety of subject areas and credentialing agencies.