Public land management: New mandate for the land grant university?

Assessing Library Scholarship: Experience at a Land Grant University

Andrea A. Wirth is Geosciences & Environmental Sciences Librarian in the Valley Library at Oregon State University; e-mail: [email protected]. Maureen Kelly is Head Librarian & Extended Campus Librarian in Cascades Campus Library at Oregon State University; e-mail: maureen.kelly@oregonstate. edu. Janet Webster is Librarian in Guin Library at Hatfield Marine Science Center; e-mail: ja...

Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management in the Southwest

The Military Land Grant along the Muslim-christian Frontier

The Christian-Muslim frontier frequently acted as a barrier that separated religions, cultures, and societies from one another. But it was a permeable barrier in that ideas, commodities, and technology often passed through it. To demonstrate the precise mechanism of that permeability can be difficult to do. As Lynn White has remarked: ‘‘No medieval text documents with explicit words the amazing...

Teaching animal welfare in the land grant universities.

Colleges and universities have an obligation to teach the basis of animal husbandry and welfare and must prepare students so that they can respond effectively to challenges by proponents of the animal welfare and animal rights movements. Veterinary curricula must now contain formal instruction in professional ethics and humane stewardship of animals for accreditation by the American Veterinary ...

The Role of Land Grant Universities: Responsible Innovation

public research universities. Unlike those others, however, the land grant universities also have responsibilities assigned to them by congressional legislation. Beginning with the Morrill Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, federally enacted legislation has specified several roles and responsibilities for land grant universities. When asking what these universities should be doin...