New agriculture deans for two UC campuses

Regional medical campuses: a new classification system.

There is burgeoning belief that regional medical campuses (RMCs) are a significant part of the narrative about medical education and the health care workforce in the United States and Canada. Although RMCs are not new, in the recent years of medical education enrollment expansion, they have seen their numbers increase. Class expansion explains the rapid growth of RMCs in the past 10 years, but ...

Development underway for new community medical education campuses.

New Crops for Canadian Agriculture

The designation “new crop” may be applied to virtually any useful plant that in some respect is new. The following categories of newness (which are not all mutually exclusive) are economically important in discussing new crops: (1) gathering new wild crops from nature; (2) cultivating an undomesticated plant not previously grown; (3) domesticating (changing genetically) an undomesticated plant;...

New Biological Approaches for Agriculture

The origin and the progress of agriculture have relied since its beginning in the Neolithic era in the application of the best available knowledge. Plant domestication involved the identification of a limited number of plant and animal species and a narrow range of variation within the species that allowed their cultivation. Starting at the end of 18 century the recognition of how important agr...

Today's mandate for pharmacy deans: anticipating change.

In the early 1990s, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), under the joint auspices of the Councils of Faculties and Deans, published an extensive series of excellent invited manuscripts known as Academic Management System. This publication served many deans, department heads, and others as a blueprint to help guide the structure and operations of schools and colleges of pharm...