Kathleen Tweeten, director of the NDSU Extension Service’s Center for Community Vitality, was elected north-central region vice president for Epsilon Sigma Phi. The national organization is dedicated to fostering standards of excellence and promoting and supporting professionalism in Extension.
Her role on the board is to help with the organization’s national leadership, connect with chapters in the north-central region and chair the organization’s national Global Relations Committee. Her two-year term will begin in October.
“My goal is to bring the resources of the national organization to our local chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi and NDSU Extension, as well as to help the national organization to achieve its educational goal of leadership development,” says Tweeten, who also is an Extension community economic development specialist with NDSU’s Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics.
She was elected at the organization’s national leadership meeting in Nashville, Tenn., in February.
Tweeten has served as president and past president of the state chapter and chaired the conference committee when North Dakota hosted the national conference in Fargo in 2009. She also was one of the organizers of the Joint Council of Extension Professionals in North Dakota.
At the national organization level, she has served on the Professional Development and National Conference Planning committees.