MIDNY -- CASE STUDY #11: Testing the MIDNY Project Pilot Results in the Greater Egypt Region of Southern Illinois.

Results of a six-year pilot program in community resource development, carried out in the five-county Central New York planning region are summarized. The program, administered by New York Cooperative Extension, involving Extension Service of U. S. Department of Agriculture and Colleges of Human Ecology and Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, utilized community education regionally to improve effectiveness of comprehensive regional planning and development. The program was scrutinized closely and evaluated thoroughly on several occasions. Much of the final year was devoted to analyzing and projecting program results. This study reports on one aspect of this evaluation - testing the program's experience for transferability to other regions. Conclusions are reported from: (1) impressions of the transferability of MIDNY's experiences, (2) implications to New York State Cooperative Extension, and (3) suggestions to the Ad Hoc Committee on Regional Development in the Greater Egypt Region of Southern Illinois. (Author/NF)