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From page 2... ... T R ENDS I N AG R I CU LTU R A L CU R R I C U LA 3 • Our curricula need expanded opportunities for interdisciplinary work. Traditional departments, though they furnish a very important administrative and educational focal point, can be deadening if they insist that they alone have the answer to all problems. Read the entire page →
From page 4... ... TR ENDS IN AGR I CULTURAL CUR R I CULA 5 fmd hard to answer because they are not sure themselves. More dialogue is needed between the agricultural professional school and the rest of the university. Read the entire page →
From page 6... ... TR ENDS I N AGRICULTURAL CUR R I CULA 7 Lewis Mayhew* points out that because curricula revision involves vested interest, self study inevitably becomes conservative political action. Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... TR ENDS IN AGR I CULTURAL CUR R I CULA 9 Production 4000 Production 3000 2000 Acreage 200 1000 100 Harvested Acreage QL -- -- -.., Read the entire page →
From page 10... ... TREN DS I N AG R I C U LTU RAL CU R R I C U LA 1 1 subject matter favor this type of organization from a purist's stand point. In short, most agriculture colleges have found it difficult to muster enough votes to defeat such reorganizations. Read the entire page →
From page 12... ... TREN DS I N AG R I C U LTU RAL CU R R I C U LA 1 3 jectives, requiring different programs. It is obvious, too, that a student cannot specialize in more than one continental area: There simply is not enough time to study the language, politics, social systems, his tory, and agriculture of more than one. Read the entire page →
From page 13... ... 1 4 D uane Acker attainment in math, chemistry, and physics, before and during col lege, must be taken into account. Experts predict serious food problems by the turn of the century no country excepted. Read the entire page →
From page 14... ... TREN DS I N AG R I C U LTU RAL CU R R I C U LA 1 5 perience or business orientation; essentially none had significant ex perience in nonfarm businesses or had been successful in food produc tion enterprises. One could say that these faculty were and are biological consultants. Read the entire page →
From page 15... ... 1 6 Duane Acker riculum in agricultural science should suit a young man planning on graduate work. Very few of these "broader agriculture curricula" in m�or uni versities have succeeded except as a feeder to departmental curricula. Read the entire page →
From page 16... ... T R E N D S I N AG R I CU LTU R A L CU R R I CU LA 17 bility in program planning is usually desired and justified by students and their advisers. The major and minor system, already in use at Iowa State, permits the student and his adviser flexibility, allows identification of a second or third area of specialization by the student, and may well encourage increased curriculum interaction between colleges of agriculture and departments in colleges of arts and sciences. Read the entire page →
From page 17... ... 1 8 Duane Acker the administration of these junior colleges to mesh curricula offer ings. Many have urged that junior colleges not teach technical agri culture because of its high cost, the difficulty in obtaining qualified teachers, and shortage of laboratory equipment. Read the entire page →
From page 18... ... TR E N D S I N AG R I CU LTU RAL C U R R I CU LA 1 9 them to achieve. This will give the student and the instructor bench marks against which to measure progress. Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... 20 Duane Acker on most campuses of orienting new faculty to their teaching respon sibilities. This handicaps their chance for success. Read the entire page →
From page 20... ... T R E N D S I N AG R I CU LTU RAL CU R R I CU LA 21 faculty that a "level of competence" in basis communication be re quired rather than "six credits of freshman English." Several colleges of agriculture have added biochemistry to their plant and animal cur ricula; a few are pressing their chemistry departments to move bio chemistry to a position earlier in their course sequences. Agriculture faculty now are less concerned about how faculty in other colleges view them and their programs and students. Read the entire page →
From page 21... ... 22 D uane Acker the college of agriculture with the leverage, now enjoyed by many schools of education, pharmacy, or nursing, for obtaining faculty, buildings, and operating funds. We are all aware of instances in which accreditation reports have forced administration, regents, or legis latures to increase funds for the accredited unit, under the threat of losing accreditation. Read the entire page →
From page 22... ... 2 Trends in Renewable Natural Resources Curricula JAM E S S B ETH E L Any meaningful discussion o f trends in renewable natural resource education must be based, it seems to me, on the history of renewable resources use and education. Read the entire page →

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... T R ENDS I N AG R I CU LTU R A L CU R R I C U LA 3 • Our curricula need expanded opportunities for interdisciplinary work. Traditional departments, though they furnish a very important administrative and educational focal point, can be deadening if they insist that they alone have the answer to all problems.