At least one Impact Statement covering past or current teaching, research and/or extension accomplishments is required.

IMPACT STATEMENT SUGGESTED FORMAT

1. Issue: Brief description of the situation and/or objective of the teaching, research and/or extension activity.
2. What Has Been Done: Brief description of the activity, in laymen's terms, that has resulted in an actual or potential economic, environmental or social impact.
3. Impact: Brief description of the actual or potential economic, environmental or social impact with quantitative information if possible.
4. Funding Sources: Principle sources of funding for this activity, both public and private, excluding state or federal appropriated funds.
5. Contacts: Name, address, phone and email of the primary faculty involved in this activity.

Format Guidelines

• Single space only
• 1” Margin all around
• 12 Point Font Size
• Limit is 2 pages
• Save as file named LASTNAME_FIRST_IP.doc

IMPACT STATEMENT: Defined

•A brief summary in lay terms of the social, environmental and/or economic impact of your teaching, research or extension efforts.

•It states your accomplishments and the payoff to society

•It answers the questions:

–“So what ?”

–“Who cares ?”

IMPACT STATEMENT: It is NOT

•General, long-range goal

•Amount of resources being utilized

•Description of a process or activity

•Count of people participating in something

•Number of outputs produced

•Detailed, scientific report

•Simply a “P.R.” tool

IMPACT STATEMENT: Types

•General Impact Statement (preferred)

•Potential Impact Statement

•Anecdotal Impact Statement

IMPACT STATEMENT: General - (Example)

•Describes a significant quantifiable change in at least one of the following:

–Economic value or efficiency

–Environmental quality

–Social well-being

–Health or quality of life

•Has occurred or is currently occurring in the industry, environment or society.

IMPACT STATEMENT: Potential - (Example)

•Potential impact should be considered; especially in basic research, teaching, or youth and family work

•Should be clearly identified as “potential”

•Include quantitative predictions based on sound models, if possible

•Include accomplishments to date that will lead to impact

IMPACT STATEMENT: Anecdotal - (Example)

•A single, quantifiable example of economic, environmental or social benefit that can be extrapolated to an identifiable population

•Should not be at the extremes of the range

•Two or three similar anecdotes are best

IMPACT STATEMENT:  Problems

•Potential sources of misinterpretation

–No point of reference

–Potentially exaggerated claims

–Gain without pain

IMPACT STATEMENT (excerpt):  No Point of Reference

•Researchers have created imitation chicken meat.  The fake chicken has the same texture as real chicken meat.  The chicken taste comes from real chicken broth.  This soy chicken productcosts only about 25 cents per pound to produce.

–To what does this cost compare ?

–What costs are included ?

IMPACT STATEMENT (excerpt):  Potentially exaggerated claims

•Two strains of tomatoes recently released offer high resistance to fungal pests.  This year, by reducing protective sprays, the new strains are projected tosave New York growers about $8 million and more than $100 million nationally.

–$8 mil. = 44% of NY’s total tomato farm-gate value, so fungal control is  > 44% of total production costs .

–Implies that NY has 8% of national production, actually only about 1%.

IMPACT STATEMENT (excerpt):  Gain without Pain

•A new 5 year agreement sets a minimum price for tomatoes entering the USA, preventing a surge of shipmentsat disastrously low prices.

–Disastrous to whom?  Producer - yes, consumer - no