Richard T. Liles Leadership Seminar Fund
Colleagues and
friends of Richard T. Liles, retired director of Personal and Organizational
Development for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in the
College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State University, have established the Richard
T. Liles Leadership Seminar Fund in the North Carolina Cooperative
Extension Service Foundation. This fund will provide support for
a Leadership
Seminar in
Dr. Liles' honor that will be held annually or biennially for employees
of the
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
About Dr. Liles
During his thirty-six
year career
at North Carolina State University, Dr. Liles has served with
distinction in a
variety of significant leadership roles:
* Dr. Liles was promoted to Extension 4-H Specialist and relocated to the NC State campus in 1974. He was responsible for the professional development of over 150 4-H agents in North Carolina. He developed an orientation and in-service training system that received national acclaim and a training module for low-income Extension volunteers that was adopted and used throughout the United States.
* In 1980, Dr. Liles was named
State
Leader of Training for North Carolina Cooperative Extension and
Associate
Professor in the Department of Adult and Community College Education. His academic accomplishments have included
serving as chair or co-chair for twelve doctoral degree graduates and
over
thirty Master’s degree graduates. He
also served on over 100 graduate committees at North Carolina State
University,
and he represented NC State on graduate committees at East Carolina
University,
Western Carolina University, and Virginia Tech. He
conducted scholarly research and published in a variety of
areas including: educational program planning, strategic planning,
organizational development, staff development, agricultural and
extension
education, and leadership development.
* Dr. Liles
was selected to serve in 1994 as Department Extension Leader for the
Department
of Agricultural and Extension Education.
He provided administrative leadership and support for the
Extension and
outreach efforts of the department. He
was responsible for the departmental strategic plan and for advanced
executive
leadership programs for NCCE and for leadership outreach programs for
the
agribusiness industry in North Carolina.
He coordinated the off-campus and distance education
graduate
courses for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
* In
1997, he was promoted to Associate Head of the Department of
Agricultural and
Extension Education. His
responsibilities as administrative leader for departmental Extension
programs
continued. He provided leadership for
program development, staff development, and organizational development
for
NCCE. In addition, he worked to unify
and integrate the department and position it as a national leader for
Agricultural and Extension Education.
* Beginning
in January of 1999, Dr. Liles was asked to serve as Interim Department
Head of
Agricultural and Extension Education and Interim Assistant Director for
NCCE. In this role, he gave
administrative leadership to a department with a wide variety of
responsibilities
including: staff and organizational
development for NCCE, academic programs for agriculture and Extension
education, leadership for the FFA program in North Carolina,
professional
development for the agriculture teachers in North Carolina and a
comprehensive
research program in Agricultural and Extension Education.
* In October 2000, Dr. Liles was named
Director of Personal and Organizational Development (POD), to provide program leadership for the POD System for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension System
and
administrative leadership for faculty and staff in the POD unit. The director serves as a
member of the Extension Council, the Joint Extension Team (JET) and
the
Extension Administrative Team. As director, he was responsible for aiding in the personal and professional
development of
all NCCE employees and volunteers, for the program development process
in NCCE,
and for organizational development programs and activities for NCCE.
Awards and Honors:
* Epsilon Sigma Phi awarded him with
the Distinguished Mid-Career Award, one of four given nationally in
1989. Dr. Liles has chaired numerous
university
and national committees related to extension and executive development
and is
an active member of a variety of professional associations. He has published a variety of papers and
articles with a focus on educational program development, and he has
co-authored a textbook on agribusiness.
* He also received the Gordon Lawrence Award from the International
Association of Psychological Type, the Extension Leadership Award, and
the
Epsilon Sigma Phi State Award of Visionary Leadership. He is a
member of
Phi Kappa Phi, Gamma Sigma Delta, the World Futures Society, and Sigma
Iota
Rho.
Dr. Liles
is married to Jeanine Haase Liles, a retired school teacher. They have three grown children and two
grandchildren. He retired from NC State in 2006.
How to support the Liles Leadership Seminar Fund
Click
here for a response form you may print and mail to Liles Leadership
Seminar Fund, Campus Box 7569, Raleigh, NC 27695 or FAX to 919.515.5274.
Click
here for a bank draft/payroll deduction form (must be submitted with
response
form). You may give securely online using your credit card by clicking here.