What are AoE Team's?

"At Michigan State University, an AoE Team is a highly trained group of Extension and Experiment Station employees fully responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating educational programs in a self-directed manner. Most teams have 10-20 members, with every member of the team sharing responsibility for performance." (Leholm, A., Hamm, L., Suvedi, M., Gray, I., and Poston, F. (1999, June). Area of Expertise Teams: The Michigan Approach to Applied Research and Extension. Journal of Extension, retrieved April 4, 2001 on the World Wide Web: http://www.joe.org/joe/1999june/a3.html) View the MSU Extension web site for more details at http://www.msue.msu.edu/aoe.