THE JPC CONNECTION
Newsletter of the Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education
Vol. 1 No. 2 (October, 1996)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Upcoming Meetings
Mark your calendars
- November 5, 1996 -- Committee on Outreach Meeting (10:00 am -1:00 pm). Contact lead chair A. Charles Crabb (209)891-2400 for location
- November 6, 1996 -- Committee on Research Conference Call (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm). Contact lead chair Barbara Schneeman (916) 752-0107 for information
- November 12, 1996 -- Joint Policy Council Meeting (10:00 am - 12:00 pm) Lunch to follow (12:00 - 1:15 pm). Combined Joint Policy Council and JPC Advisory Board Meeting (1:15 pm - 3:45 pm). Joint Policy Council Advisory Board Meeting (3:45 pm - 4:15 pm)
Dear Reader:
This issue features a progress report on the JPC Committees. We see these working groups of academic, industry and public members, co-chaired by deans from the three public higher education systems, as critical to the success of the JPC enterprise.
They provide a key link between priorities and goals set by the Joint Policy Council and adoption of innovative and effective means to increase cooperation and collaboration in the state's agricultural teaching, research and outreach programs. The committees also promise to be active in developing data on resources dedicated to agricultural and natural resources in UC, the CSU and the Community Colleges and to increase public awareness and access to this information.
We draw your attention to two examples of projects now in the JPC "pipeline." The Committee on Research has begun work on a catalog of research expertise and research facilities in the three systems. The Committee on Instruction is proposing a Web Site on the Internet that would permit students, faculty and the public to access information on courses offered, degrees and certificates awarded, and the academic priorities and strengths of agricultural and natural resources colleges and departments across the State.
The committee lead chairs will report on the activities and future plans for these four committees -- Instruction, Research, Outreach, and Natural Resources -- at our November 12 meeting. You are encouraged to join us.
| Warren J. Baker | W. R. Gomes |
| JPC Co-Chair | JPC Co-Chair |
JPC WILL MEET IN DAVIS NOVEMBER 12
The next meeting of the Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education (JPC) will be on Tuesday, November 12 in Davis. The 11-member Joint Policy Council meets in executive sessionfrom 10:00 am until Noon. This will be followed by a combined meeting of the JPC and the Advisory Board from 1:15 pm until 3:45 pm. The JPC Advisory Board will close out the day with a meeting scheduled to begin at 3:45 pm.
A number of important items will be covered in the November 12 meetings. These include progress reports from the JPC committees on their activities over the past six months and proposals for developing research and instruction data bases; a review and discussion of JPC priorities -- current and future; discussion and recommendations for staffing and funding the JPC; a preliminary report on the results of the survey of collaborative and cooperative efforts that was conducted by JPC staff from July-September; and, a demonstration of the JPC web site.
Lunch will be from 12:00 pm until 1:15 pm. The meetings and luncheon will be held at the Putah Creek Lodge on the UC Davis campus. The public is welcome, but
seating is limited. Please contact Peggy Michel at (510) 987-9862 if you plan to attend.
JPC COMMITTEES: KEY LINK TO HIGHER EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE
The Joint Policy Council has established four committees to serve as primary links between higher education policy makers, campus and county-based academics across the systems and agriculture and the public. The Research, Outreach, Instruction (Teaching) and Natural Resources committees include academics from all three public higher educationsystems and external members representing farming, ranching, natural resources, environmental and governmental interests.
Although the roles and responsibilities of the committees are still evolving with time and experience, the initial charge from the JPC is three-fold.
First, the committees are tasked with assisting the Joint Policy Council in identifying opportunities for increased cooperation and collaboration in planning and delivery of agricultural instruction, research and outreach/extension programs across and within the three systems.
Second, they are expected to be instrumental in developing strategies for achieving improved effectiveness and efficiency in the operation of agricultural programs within UC, the CSU and the California Community Colleges.
Third, through regular interaction with the JPC, the JPC Advisory Board, external constituencies (and one another), they provide a mechanism for ascertaining evolving industry and community needs and helping to make teaching, outreach and research programs in their systems more responsive.
We reported in the first issue of The JPC Connection that co-chairs for the four committees were appointed in February 1996. Each committee has three co-chairs -- one from each system -- to encourage full participation from each sector. In May, additional appointments were made. Each committee, with the exception of Natural Resources, now comprises about a half dozen academics, including the co-chairs, and a minimum of five industry and public members from the JPC Advisory Board. One co-chair from each committee serves as the lead chair. A full list of committee members follows this article.
Over the Summer, all four committees met, with two taking advantage of video conferencing. The Ad Hoc Committee on Natural Resources convened in Sacramento on June 13 after the JPC Advisory Board meeting, the Committee on Research held a conference call on July 16, the Committee on Instruction met via a video conference on July 24 that linked CSU Chico, UC Davis and Cal Poly Pomona, and the Committee on Outreach met August 13 by a video conference joining sites at CSU Chico, UC Davis and CSU Fresno.
Although the initial meetings were primarily to provide committee members with a chance to get to know one another, share information on programs in each system, and begin a discussion on issues, priorities and mutual needs, several of the committees identified projects they intend to pursue.
For example, the Committee on Research made the development of a catalog of research expertise and an inventory of research facilities (laboratory and field) across the three systems a high priority. This type of a data base, accessible to academics and industry alike, was identified as a priority need both by the Commission on California Agriculture and Higher Education in its January 1995 report and industry representatives at the March 1996 meeting of the JPC and the Advisory Board.
The committee has asked each system to submit information by campus and faculty member, describing research interests. Similar data have been requested for UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors and other county-based academics. The committee will meet on November 6, to review these submissions and begin the design of a computerized data base and catalog. Once this design phase has been completed, each system will be requested to provide additional information on faculty and academic research expertise, facilities, and related capabilities in a standardized format.
The Committee on Instruction proposes developing a comprehensive electronic data base to provide administrators, industry, the public -- and especially students -- with access to information on each UC, CSU and Community College campus, including a description of agricultural and natural resources course offerings and degree and certificate programs. Ideally, the data base will link catalogs, annual surveys and other information provided by campuses onto a "one-stop" web site on the World Wide Web. The committee co-chairs are expected to provide the Joint Policy Council with a concept proposal for developing such a system on November 12.
On a related topic, the Committee on Instruction agreed during its July 24 video conference to examine barriers -- real and perceived -- that discourage community and junior college students from transferring to agricultural and natural resources undergraduate programs at CSU and UC campuses.
The Committee on Outreach agreed that high priorities for their group should be the exchange of information on current outreach and extension activities within the three systems and an in-depth examination of ways to encourage the development of intersegmental partnerships that better serve the needs of Californians. A second meeting of this committee is planned for November 5 in Modesto.
Readers are reminded that ALL meetings of the JPC, the JPC Advisory Board and the JPC Committees are open to the public. For the latest information on meeting dates and locations, visit the JPC Home Page (http://danr.ucop.edu/jpc/) or call Peggy Michel at (510) 987-9862.
JPC Committee Members
The Committees on Instruction, Research, Outreach, and Natural Resources are co-chaired by deans or their equivalents. They also include faculty and other academics from the three higher education systems as well as members of the JPC Advisory Board representing farming and ranching, the natural resources and environmental communities, local government and the general public. Serving on committees, as of July 31, are:
Committee on Instruction: Thomas Dickinson, director of Agriculture, CSU Chico (lead chair); Michael Clegg, dean of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, UC Riverside (co-chair); Stephen Olson, dean of Instruction, Santa Rosa JC (co-chair); Donald Camp, D.M. Camp & Sons, Bakersfield; Michael Fitch, Wells Fargo Bank Alamo; Paul Gepts, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, UC Davis; Donald Gordon, Jr., Agricultural Council of California, Sacramento; Peggy McLaughlin, Department of Horticulture, Plant and Soil Science, Cal Poly Pomona; Robert Nottelmann, Nottelmann Orchards, Chico; Alvin Quist, Quist Dairies, Fresno; and Bud West, Department of Landscape, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Kings River CC.
Committee on Outreach: A. Charles Crabb, director UC South Central Region, Kearney Agricultural Center (lead chair); Daniel Bartell, dean of Agriculture, CSU Fresno (co-chair); Howard Holman, dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Butte College (co-chair); Mark Burrell, The West Mark Group, Bakersfield; John Kautz, John Kautz Farms, Lodi; Cindy Myers, Golden Maid Packers, Strathmore; Robert Nottelmann, Nottelmann Orchards, Chico; Len Richardson, California Farmer, Concord; Terrell Salmon, director UC Northern Region, UC Davis; Robert Scofield, irrigation consultant, Placerville; H. (Hank) Wallace, College of Agriculture, CSU Chico; and Neal Weisenberger, Department of Agriculture Science, Antelope Valley College.
Committee on Research: Barbara Schneeman, dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis (lead chair); Joseph Jen, dean of Agriculture, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (co-chair); Richard Nimphius, dean of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Modesto JC (co-chair); Ron Enomoto, Enomoto Roses, Half Moon Bay; Brenda Jahns, California Department of Justice, Sacramento; Noel Keen, Department of Plant Pathology, UC Riverside; Richard Kunde, Sonoma Grapevines, Santa Rosa; Loyd McCormick, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson, San Francisco; Bert Mason, Center for Agricultural Business, CSU Fresno; Jeff Tassey, Division of Agriculture, Merced College; and Ronald Schuler, California Canning Peach Association, Sacramento.
Ad Hoc Committee on Natural Resources: Wayne Bidlack, dean of Agriculture, Cal Poly Pomona (lead chair); Francis Duchi, director of Center for Science, Industry & Natural Resources, Shasta College (co-chair); Gordon Rausser, dean of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley (co-chair); Douglas Leisz, forestry consultant, Placerville; Timothy Lindgren, Fruit Growers Exchange, Sherman Oaks; Betsy Marchand, Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Woodland; Terry Scranton, Bank of America, Fresno; James Smith, dean of Natural Resources and Sciences, Humboldt State University; Shawn Stevenson, Harlan Ranch, Clovis; and Bob Vice, California Farm Bureau Federation, Sacramento.
JPC HOME PAGE NOW ON-LINE
If you have access to the World Wide Web, you are just seconds away from the JPC Home Page. Developed and maintained by Peggy Michel and David Underwood of the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the web site has been on-line since mid-August.
What will you find on the JPC Home Page? For a start, there's information on upcoming meetings; lists of who's who on the JPC, the advisory board and the committees; minutes from previous meetings; copies of this issue and the June issue of The JPC Connection; and, the complete and unabridged text from the January 1995 report of the Commission on California Agriculture and Higher Education. You can also access web sites for the California Community Colleges, the California State University and the University of California with a simple click of your mouse, or send an e-mail to JPC, JPC Advisory Board, and JPC committee members who are on-line.
The JPC Home Page address is http://danr.ucop.edu/jpc/. We are constantly updating the home page with the latest information on JPC activities and direct links to other higher education and agricultural home pages. Once you've had a chance to visit, we'd appreciate your comments and any suggestions on how to make the JPC web site even better.
JPC ADVISORY BOARD BRIEFED ON DISTANCE LEARNING AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Meeting in Sacramento on June 13 the JPC Advisory Board hosted representatives from California's three public higher education systems for an update on how UC, the CSU and the Community Colleges are using distance learning and other new technologies for teaching and information outreach. The Board also was briefed on two collaborative teaching and field research efforts involving the University of California and the California State University.
Distance Learning Applications and Plans
Lebaron Woodyard, lead specialist in Telecommunications and Distance Education for the California Community Colleges, said that the state's junior and community colleges enroll over 1.3 million students annually on more than 130 campuses. As the largest higher education system in the world, the Community Colleges have been experimenting with distance learning since 1981. Early applications linked classrooms at one location to another over telephone lines. Today, the system is rapidly embracing new technologies from e-mail, to the Internet, to interactive video conferencing linking multiple sites.
Woodyard noted that developing the infrastructure to link all campuses is a first priority for the Community Colleges. Meanwhile, a systemwide review of regulations and guidelines governing distance learning is underway, and since July 1995 campuses have been required to report annually on distance education offerings and use. Woodyard emphasized that evaluation of student performance will still require traditional approaches such as tests and papers. He said that transferability of credits earned by distance learning can be a problem as the CSU and UC require a minimum amount of "face-to-face" contact for all courses. Despite these challenges, Woodyard said that distance learning offers the promise of ex tending course offerings and other educational opportunities from single locations to students at multiple campuses and off-campus sites.
Thomas West, assistant vice chancellor for Information Resources & Technology for the California State University, reported on the results of the Integrated Technology Strategies Initiative sponsored by Chancellor Barry Munitz. This systemwide effort is aimed at improving student access to faculty and information on CSU campuses, as well as linking educational resources worldwide.
West said that technology is viewed by the CSU as a means to enhance educational productivity and improve the environment for learning in a time of expected high enrollments and continued budgetary constraints. He said that the CSU plans to create a multimillion dollar infrastructure to connect all 22 campuses with the goal of providing all students, all faculty, and all staff with access to information technology by 2005. West noted that JPC co-chair Warren Baker, president of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, is a strong proponent of distance learning and chairs one of the CSU Integrated Technology Strategies Initiative subcommittees.
M. Stuart Lynn, associate vice president for Information Resources and Communications with the University of California, said that the UC System also views distance learning and the adoption of new telecommunications technologies as a priority for the 21st century. Like the Community Colleges and the CSU, UC already has several initiatives underway. These include a grants program through the Office of the President to fund teaching projects that link departments and students from multiple campuses, and the development of a strategic plan to extend distance learning infrastructure and capabilities to all nine campuses.
Meanwhile, many campuses and programs already provide information on the Internet that is available to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. He cited the statewide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Project, with its on-line pesticide management guidelines and pesticide use data base, as one example. Lynn told the advisory board that UC will sponsor a systemwide conference on distance learning next March. This will provide a forum for exploring issues, needs and future applications. All students, faculty and staff will be invited to participate in person, via e-mail or by video conferencing.
He concluded by saying that UC expects to adopt a wide variety of new telecommunications technologies for teaching and outreach over the next five years.
Collaborative Efforts Involving UC and the CSU
Steve Nation, UC Staff Liaison to the JPC, briefed the Board on the "California Universities Equine Science Teaching Consortium." This project teams animal science faculty from Cal Poly Pomona, UC Davis, CSU Fresno and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to teach equine science courses using distance learning. The consortium takes advantage of specialized faculty expertise from individual campuses, not available elsewhere. Three courses have been taught since January 1995: Equine Exercise Physiology, Equine Nutrition and Farrier Science. In the 1996-97 academic year, these courses will be offered again along with a fourth course, Advanced Equine Reproduction.
The four campuses use a compressed video system and high resolution telephone lines to link on-campus studios. The students and faculty are able to "see one another" and interact on a real-time basis. Besides the faculty member teaching the course, faculty are available at each of the satellite sites to answer students' questions or add their own comments. Courses are taught in the evening. Exams and keys are faxed to each site where a faculty member administers and grades the tests. Through agreements worked out with their campus academic senates, all four departments involved are able to grant credit approval for the courses. These count toward a student's major or general education requirements.
Has this distance learning experience been successful? According to Nation, most of the faculty and students involved are very positive about the use of distance learning. It offers real "value added" to the students involved, by providing them access to specialized faculty expertise not available on a single campus. It also encourages greater interaction among faculty on the campuses than would otherwise occur. The fact that the courses are being taught again this year, with a fourth being added, is evidence that the individual campuses view this as an effective teaching method.
Tom Dickinson, director of the Division of Agriculture at CSU Chico, described a walnut variety trials project involving CSU Chico, UC Davis, UC Cooperative Extension from Butte, Glenn and Tehema counties, the Walnut Board and local growers. Blocks of trees, planted at UC Davis and "the farm" at CSU Chico, will be used for selection of new varieties. The project is expected to run for at least 20 years. A 5-acre block of Chandler walnut trees is being used as a "control plot" at Chico and to generate income to support the trials. Undergraduate students from CSU Chico gain "hands-on" field experience here, and the site hosts an annual field day that brings together UC, CSU and industry participants. All of the rootstock and trees were donated by industry, as was the irrigation system.
Dickinson emphasized that in addition to bringing UC and CSU faculty, students and researchers together on a regular basis, the walnut varietal trials project is responsive to industry needs. JPC Advisory Board Chair Bill Allewelt and Board member Mike Fitch commented that CSU Chico and UC have a "real winner" in this project. JPC Board member and California Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Vice said that this is exactly the kind of collaborative project that the JPC should be encouraging more of in the future. He hoped that the survey being conducted to document cooperation and collaboration involving the CSU, UC and the Community Colleges would yield many other examples.
ADVISORY BOARD ADOPTS GENERAL GUIDELINES AND STATEMENT OF DUTIES
The Advisory Board and JPC Co-Chairs Warren Baker and W.R. "Reg" Gomes reviewed and accepted two documents at the June 13 meeting in Sacramento. One is intended to provide general guidance to the JPC and the Advisory Board on roles, responsibilities and mutual expectations. The other lists the duties of the Advisory Board.
The general statements, prepared by JPC Advisory Board Chair Bill Allewelt, vice chairs Mark Burrell and Mike Fitch, and Loyd McCormick, were circulated to all members prior to the meeting in draft form. The full text of both documents are printed in this issue of The JPC Connection.
General Statement Concerning The Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education and Its Advisory Board and Committees (as adopted June 13, 1996):
The leaders of California's three public higher education systems committed in 1995 to bring about within their respective agricultural programs a common culture that encourages and motivates cooperation and collaboration between and within these programs. To advance these high purposes, they appointed a Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education (JPC). The JPC consists of the following:
JPC Membership
- The University of California Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
- The University of California Chancellors at Berkeley, Davis and Riverside.
- The California State University Presidents at Chico, Fresno, Pomona and San Luis Obispo.
- The California Community Colleges Chancellor and the President of a community college with a strong agricultural program.
- The Chair of the JPC Advisory Board.
JPC Advisory Board
The JPC is charged to appoint an Advisory Board composed of (concerned) private citizens and public officials reflecting the diversity of interests in California agriculture and in the management of the state's natural resources. The chair of the Advisory Board is elected at the Board's first meeting of each new year, and serves during his/her term as a member of the JPC.
JPC Committees
The JPC also appoints standing committees to be concerned, respectively, with Instruction (Education), Research, and Outreach, as well as an ad hoc committee for Natural Resources. These committees are co-chaired by representatives of each system drawn from deans or academic equivalents. Of the three co-chairs for each committee, one is appointed by the JPC to serve as lead chair, with primary responsibility for coordination and progression of the committee's assignments. Committee membership will consist of both academic and public sector representatives, including members of the JPC Advisory Board.
JPC Duties
The JPC, in consultation with the committees and the Advisory Board, sets priority objectives for implementation, makes assignments to the appropriate standing and ad hoc committees, and oversees progress of the committees. The JPC maintains open communication with the Advisory Board, including meeting with it periodically (at least once a year) for advice and assistance in meeting the JPC's responsibilities effectively.
JPC Advisory Board Duties
The Advisory Board provides insight to the JPC on industry and public needs from agricultural programs (in the three public higher education systems), supplies counsel and advice in setting priorities, serves as a sounding board for academic proposals, and assists in promoting and publicizing the activities and accomplishments of the JPC and its committees.
JPC Committee Duties
The JPC committees function both to seek out initiatives and recommend them to the JPC and to implement priorities identified by the JPC that require cooperation and collaboration among and between the agricultural programs of the respective systems. In so doing, they also promote and nurture an environment supportive of those principles that is inclusive of all systems. The committees also shall be asked to seek out new initiatives and recommend them to the JPC.
Expectations of the JPC, its Advisory Board and its Committees
Whether these concerted efforts prove worthwhile will be determined by two measures that must become readily evident, over time. The first is convincing evidence that a culture fostering cooperation and collaboration has become generally accepted within the agricultural programs of each of the systems. The second are tangible demonstrations that this environment is generating increasingly enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in aggregate program performance.
The degree of accomplishment against those standards will largely determine the course of California's agricultural programs in the 21st century. Most critically, it will reflect whether public higher education is capable of organizing available resources to preserve historic agricultural program excellence -- and with that, whether it will have the ability to sustain the quality and reliability of academic performance that has been so vital in developing California's agriculture into its presently world class status.
Duties of the Advisory Board to the Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education (as adopted June 13, 1996)
The Advisory Board to the Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education shall have the following duties:
- Provide advice and council to the Joint Policy Council on industry and public needs for agricultural programs in public higher education that encompass instruction, research, outreach and natural resources.
- Advocate priorities for JPC initiatives, including pending assignments to be undertaken by the standing committees for Instruction, Research and Outreach and the ad hoc committee for Natural Resources.
- Serve as a sounding board for the JPC by responding to proposals for agricultural programs.
- Continually inform interested parties and organizations of the existence, purpose, activities and accomplishments of the JPC, and also encouraging industry and public input to the JPC through Advisory Board members.
Survey of Collaborative Efforts in Higher Education
We are now analyzing the results from a survey mailed in July to several hundred academics in UC, the CSU and the California Community Colleges. The questionnaire asked for information on teaching, research, outreach and other examples of collaboration involving agricultural and natural resources programs in California's higher education systems.
Nearly 100 responses, some detailing several examples of intersegmental collaboration, have been received by September 15. These catalog a broad range of efforts from an equine science teaching consortium using distance learning, to research and field trials involving new fruit and nut varieties, to workshops extending pest management and pesticide safety information to growers and farm workers, to a collaborative survey on chemical use by homeowners.
Plans are to issue a report describing many of these collaborative teaching, research and outreach efforts in detail, along with an analysis of why they have been successful. The report also will summarize all responses to the survey and pertinent information on who was involved, the nature of the collaboration, outcomes, etc. A separate volume, with more detailed information on individual responses is also planned.
The survey was sent to deans, regional directors, department chairs, county directors and other academics. The JPC wishes to thank everyone who took the time and effort to respond. All respondents will receive a copy of the final report when it is issued in early 1997. We also plan to make much of this information available electronically on the JPC web site.
UC Davis Seeks Kellogg Foundation Funding
Another project involving UC, the CSU and the Community Colleges is the "Food Systems Professions Education Initiative for California Food and Fiber Future (CF3)" proposal, which is being reviewed by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Developed under the leadership of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis, the CF3 Project will examine teaching, research and outreach challenges facing the food and fiber system in California. The study team proposes to examine and refine higher education's vision, and visioning skills, to anticipate issues and establish mutually beneficial connections with higher education, the food and fiber system, present and future professionals in the system, and with the public to address these issues.
With the encouragement of the JPC, UC Davis formed a proposal development committee with representatives from the CSU Chico, Fresno, Pomona, and San Luis Obispo campuses, UC Berkeley and Riverside, the UC Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the California Community Colleges Office of the Chancellor to assist them with the proposal. The project implementation plan calls for a steering committee from the three public higher education systems.
Nussbaum Joins the Joint Policy Council
Thomas J. Nussbaum, Acting Chancellor for the California Community Colleges, has replaced former Chancellor David Mertes on the Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education. Mertes, who helped establish the JPC with CSU Chancellor Barry Munitz and former UC President Jack Peltason in May 1995, retired on July 1. Nussbaum served as General Counsel to the Board of Governors and as vice chancellor for the California Community Colleges prior to being appointed Acting Chancellor. We welcome him to the JPC!
California Leads Nation in Student Enrollments
A recent report from the Food and Agricultural Education Information System (FAEIS) shows that California has more undergraduate students in agriculture and natural resources-related programs than any other state in the country. In Fall 1995 over 13,000 undergraduates were enrolled in agricultural, natural resources and forestry programs in UC and the CSU. Another 2,000 were enrolled in graduate programs.
UC Davis led the nation in undergraduates enrolled in agricultural majors with 5,541. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ranked fourth overall with 3,243 students pursuing agriculture majors. Davis also ranked number one nationally in the number of students enrolled in agriculture-related doctoral degree programs (885), and tenth in students seeking a master's in agricultural sciences (331).
For more information contact FAEIS at Texas A&M University, Department of Agricultural Economics, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (409) 845-4911 and request the report "National Enrollment by Institution and Degree Level: Fall 1995 Enrollment in All Responding Colleges of Agriculture, Renewable Natural Resources, and Forestry by Institution and Degree Level."
The Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education (JPC) was established by the University of California, the California State University and the California Community Colleges in May 1995. The JPC seeks to facilitate new and innovative ways to deliver research, teaching and outreach programs to the people of California through greater collaboration and cooperation among the agricultural programs of the three public higher education systems.
Members of the Joint Policy Council are: Warren Baker, President of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (co-chair) and W.R. Gomes, Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California (co-chair); Robert Agrella, President of Santa Rosa Junior College; William Allewelt, Jr., Chair of the JPC Advisory Board; Manuel Esteban, President of California State University, Chico; Thomas Nussbaum, Acting Chancellor for the California Community Colleges; Raymond Orbach, Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside; Bob Suzuki, President of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Chang-Lin Tien, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; Larry Vanderhoef, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis; and, John Welty, President of California State University, Fresno.
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