Some Almost‐Ideal Remedies for Healing Land Grant Universities

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...

Spillovers from Universities: Evidence from the Land-Grant Program

Effective poultry programming in the next century. User fees for land grant universities-the Scottish experience.

In 1987 the U.K. government required the organizations through which it provided an extension service to adopt a cost-recovery system. Generally, this requirement applied to all advice with the exception of advice given in the areas of welfare, pollution control, and farm diversification. The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), which provided advice in Scotland at this time, adopted a strategy...

The Role of Land Grant Universities in the Global Development of Youth

Not many land grant universities have seriously addressed the issues related to the global development of youth. In the United States, colleges of agriculture have a long and proud domestic record of youth leadership development through extension 4-H programs and high school agriculture programs, including FFA. Rural and urban young men and women have benefited from being involved in these educ...