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ORGANIZATION: DEVELOPMENT, PROBLEMS AND PROPOSALS
TEAM ADMINISTRATION
Administration
The organization of the project During the first two years involved joint administration through an Administrative Coordinating Committee, composed of the Deans for Extension, Research and Resident Instruction, and a Technical Advisory Committee consisting of department deans and chaired by .Crig Andrew in International Programs. The former committee made policy for the project while the latter provided input to program operations, selection of team members and research designs. Andrew remained an important liason between the IFAS administrative deans, faculty, and the team members during this crucial early period and until late 1982.
The actual field team, responsible for the initial survey (Sondeo) and -ensuing research-transfer activities, was managed tb Peter Hildebrand, faculty-member in Food and Resource Economics, and Edwin eh, faculty member in Agronomy. Hildebrand devote --l-ess and less time directly to the project as it became established, while French quickly became the administrator of the fieldwork. The two USDA appointees, GeorC_.g0h (Vegetable Crops) and James Dean (Anthropology/FRED), carried out much of the initial fieldwork and conducted a goodly portion of the routine administrative duties such as purchasing, organizing equipment, correspondence, and meeting with interested parties to discuss the project. A secretary was hired part-time in the first year. The core team was later supplemented by a one year biologist position.
Figure 3 depicts the early organization of the North
Florida FSR/E Project. As the diagram indicates, ties with extension agents in the region during the early years were limited, despite recognition as early as the spring of 1980 that agents would be important to consult in programming the team's activities. The team originally did not have a core team member living full-time in the field. Marilyn Swishe rectified this situation by moving into that pos Tion in late 1981, enabling her to coordinate field activities on farm. The students and faculty core-members of the team were responsible for all of the fieldwork during the first two years. This placed a great strain on the team as there were periodic labor shortages; team members would have to make time-consuming and costly round-trips from Gainesville into the research countiesto conduct research activities.
The First Annual Review, held in the summer of 1982, indicated three major administrative problems plagued the project. They were 1) the team was not adequately incorporating