According to Oregon State University Extension, creditors may be willing to negotiate by giving you a lower monthly payment, a lower interest rate or even deferring your payment for an amount of time.

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Andrea Kneer-Rice is a 4-H educator at the University of Maryland Extension, with a focus in STEM education.

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The university's extension programmes are using the Internet widely—to teach from a distance, for example, a course on hotel management.

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Agriculture experts, including University of Tennessee extension agent David Cook, say that historically, there has been no need to water crops.

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It was a downward extension of the university's online education program.

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Agriculture is typically a male-dominated career, so it was significant when I was selected as the first woman to serve as an Extension Administrator at Tennessee State University.

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This is a full-time paid internship for three months based at the organisation's International Office at Leiden University, the Netherlands, with the possibility for extension for a further three months.

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Wilkes, and by extension against any other professor who might disagree with something the university is doing.

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It was reported this week that the University of Texas regents will deliberate offering head football coach Mack Brown a four-year contract extension.

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