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10 Educating a Culturally Diverse Professional Work Force for the Agriculural, Food, and Natural Resource System
10 Educating a Culturally Diverse Professional Work Force for the Agriculural, Food, and Natural Resource System
Pages 86-94
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Today, it is an urgent matter of national security. A national initiative focusing on minority human expertise development must be our priority for the agricultural sciences if this discipline intends to play its role in maintaining a stable professional work force.
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It will be a challenge to attract qualified minorities who still regard the agricultural, food, and natural resource system as the primary vehicle for their prior enslavement. Also, with the significant increase in the number of 1 ~year-olds who are minorities, other disciplines will become more actively involved in competing for the high achievers.
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Special Skills Sessions Nutrition, agronomy, animal science, natural resources, forestry, etc., can be fused Into special science, math, and reading skills sessions for third to eighth graders. One could also offer an orientation to agriculture through computers and laboratory instrumentation.
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Summer Scholars Program Outstanding students are invited to spend time on campus for 1 to 2 months to participate in some agricultural science activities for college credit. This is an opportunity for faculty to observe student performance; for students to establish contacts, develop mentor relationships, and decide on career options; and for universities to award scholarships.
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Above all, we should not rely exclusively on recruitment contact and referral slips, but rather, we should establish and maintain constant contact with prospective students and parents through letters, postcards, telephone calls, and when feasible, personal contact. The philosophy of the latter is that, just as coaches pay personal visits to the parents of athletes, would it not be possible for educators to do the same for a prospective student with a 4.0 grade point average?
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I am not sure how this compares with other disciplines, but It is certainly a reflection on the admissions process, the curricula, or the advising process. Relevant Curricula First and foremost in our college program initiatives to educate a culturally diverse professional work force for the agricultural, food, and natural resource system is a broadened, more inclusive relevant curricula.
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Just as athletic programs can develop attractive financial packages to attract students, so can the agricultural, food, and natural resource system. We must pursue alumni, the agribusiness sector, corporations, faculty, and federal agencies.
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We have also seen tremendous strides by women and Asians, but blacks continue to lag behind in terms of the percentage of college graduates In the sciences, including agriculture, food, and natural resources. I can sum up this chapter by paraphrasing the leadership actions developed by the National Task Force for Minority Achievement in Higher Education established by the Education Commis 93
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1990. Young black males need help.
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