Agriculture and the Undergraduate (1992) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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in 1991, the focus turned to undergraduates. The National Research Council, through the Board on Agriculture, was greatly pleased to cosponsor, along with USDA, the conference Investing in the Future: Professional Education for the Undergraduate, which emphasized the general education of undergraduate students Conscience majors as well as students who intend to pursue agricultural sci ence careers.
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in turn, professionals working in agriculture must learn to address the scientific and technological problems that are interwoven with issues of social and cultural standards, ethics, and human values. we are proud of some of the recent accomplishments of the National Research Council in this direction: a guide for the high school curriculum in biology, better ways to teach mathematics to undergraduates in colleges and universities, and the National Science Resource Center, which, in association with the Smithsonian institution in Washington, D.C., is a national facility for making curriculum materials available, especially in elementary schools.
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took great pleasure in joining Frank Press and the National Research Council in cosponsoring the first national conference on the evolving mission of the nation's colleges of agriculture, investing in the Future: Professional Education for the Undergraduate. We are proud that the Board on Agriculture of the National Research Council joined us in this endeavor and took the responsibility for hosting and planning the conference.
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1 am proud that the USDA higher education challenge grants and the 1890 capacity-building grants program provide opportunities to fund such programs. Graduate Students Although the conference focused on undergraduates, we must also recognize the importance of graduate students in the teaching programs and the major role that many will play as future faculty in colleges and universities.
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To meet the needs and challenges of present and future shifts, we need well-educated and trained people, and so our educational institutions must change. This landmark conference offered a unique opportunity for scientists, business leaders, educators, and public officials to contribute tO the improved education not only of students of agriculture and natural resources but also students throughout the higher education system.
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As the technical content of the curriculum increases, must the human content the ethics, literature, philosophy, foreign languages, geography, political science-decrease toward zero? Logic compels me to insist that the answer is "No." We must remember not to panic, because, as Nobel laureate Peter Medawar observed, "The ballast of factual information, so far from being just about to sink us, is growing daily less....
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Do we cringe when we hear our students speak or when we read their papers? Do we force our provincial students out of the comfortable agricultural nest to rub shoulders with students and faculty who do not share the traditional agricultural perspective?
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Our agenda is simple, but very demanding. We must direct our energies toward composing an undergraduate curriculum that will ensure the molding of minds with voracious appetites for knowledge, minds that willingly see issues from many sides, that have an endless capacity to shape knowledge in new ways, and that are prepared to construct solutions for problems not yet discovered in our changing world.
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