Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World

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Committee on a Leadership Summit to Effect Change in Teaching and Learning, National Research Council
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During the next ten years, colleges of agriculture will be challenged to transform their role in higher education and their relationship to the evolving global food and agricultural enterprise. If successful, agriculture colleges will emerge as an important venue for ...
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Front Matter	i-xxvi
Summary	1-12	(skim)
1 Motivating Change	13-24	(skim)
2 The Context for Change	25-34	(skim)
3 Improving the Learning Experience	35-64	(skim)
4 Breaking Down Silos in the University	65-76	(skim)
5 Extending Beyond the University:External Partnerships to Effect Change	77-98	(skim)
6 A Call for Change	99-120	(skim)
References	121-126	(skim)
Appendix A Statement of Task	127-130	(skim)
Appendix B Leadership Summit Information	131-154	(skim)
Appendix C Shifts in the Production and Employment of Baccalaureate Degree Graduates from United States Colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 1990-2005	155-168	(skim)
Appendix D Rethinking Undergraduate Science Education: Concepts and Practicalities - A Traditional Curriculum in aChanged World	169-178	(skim)
Appendix E Questions to Guide the Review of Undergraduate Food and Agriculture Programs	179-182	(skim)
Appendix F Committee and Staff Biographies	183-194	(skim)

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Such a transformation could reestablish and sustain the historical position of the college of agriculture as a cornerstone institution in academe, but for that to occur, a rapid and concerted effort by our higher education system is needed to shape their academic focus around the reality of issues that define the world's systems of food and agriculture and to refashion the way in which they foster knowledge of those complex systems in their students. Although there is no single approach to transforming agricultural education, a commitment to change is imperative.

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