What is ACE?
Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) is an international association of professionals who practice in all areas of communication. ACE was organized in 1913. Its members meet regularly in regional meetings, workshops, and at the annual national meeting, held each year in different locations around the country.

Who are we?
Most of ACE's 700+ members are faculty and staff members at Land Grant and Sea Grant universities throughout the United States and in similar institutions in other nations. Some are employed by the federal government and others by associated agribusinesses. Some are employed at International Agricultural Research Centers around the world. Others work in third-world nations.

What do we do?
ACE members are the communications backbone of a research and teaching network established in the United States more than a century ago. They plan, prepare, and disseminate research results and extension teaching materials. Their stock in trade is scientific information for scientists and technicians, and practical, problem-solving information for people who can put it to work: farmers, families, foresters, food processors, news media, ranchers, homemakers, young people, marine businesses, Main Street businesses, and many others.

How do we work?
ACE members are: publishers, preparing thousands of new and revised publications each year and distributing millions of copies; computer specialists, developing applications for information delivery such as the World Wide Web and integrating computer technology into all areas of communication; videographers, preparing and distributing practical videotapes for use by Extension agents and their clients; broadcasters, heard or seen on local radio and television stations throughout the nation; teachers, training other professionals in communication skills, both in developed nations and in developing countries around the globe; researchers, studying the effectiveness of communications and audience reactions and proposing future directions; and advisers to university administrators, researchers, and Extension specialists and agents concerning strategies, communications, and marketing plans.