Designing a model for providing university extension services in the colleges of agriculture and natural resources of Urmia University

In developing countries, including Iran, universities have been criticized for focusing on educational and research roles with minimal impact on societies. In this regard, the purpose of research was to design a model for providing university extension services in the colleges of agriculture and natural resources. The s tatis tical population of the research consis ted of two parts: 1) All faculty members of the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Urmia University, including 110 people, of which 82 people were randomly selected based on the Karjik and Morgan table. 2) The community of academic and organizational experts including 18 people who were selected in a purposeful way until reaching the theoretical saturation index. Qualitative method of grounded theory and quantitative survey method with ques tionnaire and interview ins truments were used. The results of the descriptive s tatis tics showed that the majority of the respondents are dedicated to the mechanisms of providing extension services, including the es tablishment of the extension office at college, the organizational pos t of extension expert in educational departments, the creation of pos tgraduate courses in the field of extension and agricultural education, as well as the formation of thematic technical committees. They agreed on allocated parts of the duties to the extension if these activities will consider as promotion indicators. According to the field data obtained from the opinions of experts, the model of providing extension services in agricultural and natural resources colleges was designed, which includes the components of causal requirements, contextual conditions, intervening conditions and the paradigm necessary for this work that It can have had positive