Poucher Elected To International Board

By:
Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281

Source(s):
Don Poucher info@mail.ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-0437
Janet Poley jpoley@unl.edu, (402) 472-7000

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Donald W. Poucher, assistant vice president for marketing and communication with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), has been elected to the board of directors of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC).

ADEC is an international consortium of more than 65 educational institutions and organizations providing economical distance education programs and services via the latest and most appropriate information technologies. Many U.S. land-grant institutions such as UF are members of ADEC.

Poucher’s appointment was announced by ADEC President and CEO Janet Poley. According to Poley, Poucher was instrumental in helping ADEC develop its new strategic plan, which reemphasizes the consortium’s commitment to providing and creating access to learner-centered distance education.

“Don Poucher has served ADEC in the past as a principal contact officer, a member of the program panel and chair of the marketing committee,” Poley said. “We are pleased that as a voting member of the board, he will be in an even better position to turn the organization’s vision into action.

“ADEC serves its many and varied member institutions through its commitment to advancing expanded educational opportunities in a model featuring a university without walls that is open, accessible and flexible to the needs of today’s learners,” Poley said.

At UF, Poucher is responsible for developing, implementing and directing the IFAS institutional marketing program. His service to UF and IFAS spans a 37-year period during which he served as a tenured assistant and associate professor. He has held university-wide posts of assistant to the president and director of alumni affairs.

Poucher also has also served as president and chief executive officer of a commercial radio broadcasting company and vice president of marketing for a bank holding company. He is a native Floridian and earned a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications in 1964 and a master’s degree in communications and marketing in 1965, both from UF.

He has published several papers on communications and has served as a consultant to organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Broadcasting Company, U.S. Office of Civil Defense, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Pan American School of Agriculture, University of the West Indies, and the Pacific and Caribbean Basin Agricultural Research Groups.

Poucher’s out-of-country assignments include projects in West Africa, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Honduras, Haiti, Aruba and Jamaica.

He has served as chair of the Telecommunications Advisory Council for UF’s College of Journalism and Communications and as president of the Ag Institute of Florida, a consortium of information officers of agricultural industry groups.

Poucher has received numerous awards including the top international awards for excellence for communications management, marketing, television news, television programming and television documentaries from Agricultural Communicators in Education. He has received the Florida Public Relations Association Golden Image Judges Award and an Award of Distinction for video documentary production. Poucher also received Golden ARC Awards from the Agricultural Relations Council for excellence in television and magazine agricultural journalism. He is a recipient of a Golden Gator Award for Magazine Journalism from UF and the UF President’s Award for outstanding television program development.

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Posted: January 27, 2003


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