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  Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World
  
  RELEASED MARCH 4, 2009
     - 4-page Report Brief
     - Full Report

• ASHS Meeting
• Transforming Agricultural Education will form the basis of a 4-hour colloquium at the 2009 Annual Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Sciences, July 25-28 in St. Louis, MO

• AIBS Meeting
• Transforming Agricultural Education formed the basis of a session at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, May 18-19 in Arlington, VA

This page contains links to the programs highlighted in the report for easy access.

• Selected professional societies and associations (from Box 3-1)
• Selected journals (from Box 3-1)
• Other links mentioned in the report

Selected professional socieities and associations (from Box 3-1) [top]

• American Association for Agricultural Education
• American Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
• National Association of Agricultural Educators
• National Council for Agricultural Education
• National Farm & Ranch Business Management Education Association
• National Postsecondary Agricultural Student Organization
• National Young Farmer Educational Association
• North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture

Selected journals (from Box 3-1) [top]

• CBE–Life Sciences Education
• Community College Journal of Research and Practice
• Journal of Agricultural Education
• Journal of Career and Technical Education
• Journal of Extension
• Journal of International Agriculture and Extension Education
• Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education
• NACTA Journal

Other links mentioned in the report [top]

Chapter 2 - The Context for Change

• Voluntary System of Accontability (VSA)

Chapter 3 - Improving the Learning Experience

• North Carolina State University Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement (Box 3-4)
• SCALE-UP Project
• Project Kaleidoscope Facilities Resource
• Michigan State University's College of Agricultre and Natural Resources overseas study programs (Box 3-5)
• Center for Capacity Building in Study Abroad
• Just-in-Time Teaching
• eXtension
• Examples of activities responsive to the National Science Foundation's broader-impacts criterion (PDF)
• University of Wisconsin's Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning and Delta Program (Box 3-7)
• National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology (Box 3-8)
• Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century Network (Box 3-9)
• Preparing Future Faculty initiative
• University of Wisconsin–Madison's Guidelines for Recommendations for Promotion or Appointment to Tenure Rank in the Biological Sciences Division (Box 3-10) (PDF)

Chapter 4 - Breaking Down Silos in the University

• Michigan Technological University's Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative (Box 4-5)

Chapter 5 - Extending Beyond the University: External Partnerships to Effect Change

• Agriculture in the Classroom (Box 5-1)
• National Farm to School Program
• Virginia Governor's School for Agricultural Sciences (Box 5-2)
• Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University
• 4-H
• National FFA Organization
• Midwest Poultry Consortium (Box 5-5)
• Bi-State School of Food Science, Washington State University and University of Idaho
• University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (Box 5-6)
• Rutger's University Cook Student Organic Farm (Box 5-7)
• Mixed Greens, Grand Rapids, MI
• Growing Hope, Ypsilanti, MI
• Practical Farmers of Iowa (Box 5-8)
• Green Lands, Blue Waters Project (Box 5-9)
• Division of Professional Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Box 5-10)
• Industrial Liaison Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Box 5-12)

Chapter 6 - A Call for Change

• 2007 National Conference on Changing Higher Education in Agriculture and Related Sciences