The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

Objective: Today people are aware of the important role of agriculture as a vital source in their life. Development in agriculture and making healthy food for human, needs trained man. Vocational schools and agricultural training centers provided the first stage for arriving at this purpose. One of the reasons for the weak influence of agricultural training centers in creating occupational oppo...

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture within the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides leadership, capacity, and funds to support the continuing development of a safe and competitive agricultural system. Many of the agency's educational programs are led by the Division of Community and Education (DOCE). These programs span agricultural education, enhancing agricultural literacy throu...

The purpose of this study was to describe the attitudes of Illinois secondary agriscience students and their parents toward the agricultural industry and educational programs in agriculture. Students were sampled based upon enrollment in science applications in agriculture courses. A corresponding number of parents was also selected (one parent per student). Results indicated that approximately...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between university education and agricultural students' entrepreneurial spirit. to do this study, 150 samples were selected by using stratified random sampling methods among senior students both on graduated and undergraduates levels in bu-ali sina university. data collection tool was a researcher made questionnaire  which  its ...

A study was conducted in year 2009, to analyze the views of enrolled agriculture extension students about existing agricultural extension curricula in the agricultural universities of Pakistan. The main objectives were to provide information of students’ evaluation to the overall structure on the agricultural extension curriculum and to identify strengths and weaknesses in areas of the curricul...

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of Iranian higher agricultural education system has been developed into one of the major socio-economic problems of the nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors contributing to economic and social development, that is, it is a main driver for employment creation. As such, many policy initiatives in Iran attempt to pull agr...

The objective of this paper is to convey the results of a first effort to use LEGO Mindstorms kits in an introductory course in Technical Systems Management (TSM), at the department of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Illinois. Four groups of students built Robotic Agricultural Machines using LEGO Mindstorms kits, with Robolab as the programming environment. The projects were carri...

The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ responses to learning through an on-line agricultural simulation game. Four hundred and fifty agricultural engineering students, studying at three different universities with four grades in Turkey, participated in the study. The data collected from the questionnaires were analysed by calculating frequencies of responses for the demographics ...

The National Research Council’s Committee on Agricultural Education in Secondary Schools recognized the value of supervised experience and recommended that all students participate in worthwhile supervised agricultural experience (SAE) programs (Committee on Agricultural Education in Secondary Schools, 1988). The committee indicated that these programs should include experience in land laborato...