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incentive to stimulate interdisciplinary programs is through the budget 

 process. 



Curriculum 



The Land-Grant University System and in particular colleges of 

 agriculture must establish a new curriculum base for undergraduate and 

 graduate students. An overwhelming number of land-grant universities 

 still offer a very traditional curriculum for agricultural majors. 

 Agricultural students should be required to obtain the basic principles of 

 ethics, critical thinking, communication skills, wn-iting across curriculum, 

 international exf)eriences including competency in at least one foreign 

 language, international exchange programs, marketing principles at the 

 national and international level, internship experiences at the national and 

 international level, and business principles. These concepts must be 

 incorporated into a curriculum which still allows for students to choose a 

 production agriculture degree program. Administrators and faculty at the 

 land-grant university system should aggressively change the traditional 

 agricultural curriculum to attract quality students and better prepare the 

 students for the challenges of the 21st Century. 



5. As budget pressure brought on by the deficit increases, how might we 

 change our allocation of formula funding, competitive grants and special 

 grants to more effectively meet our needs? 



Answers requested in Question 5 were addressed in the answers to the 

 previous four questions. 



6. As Dean and Administrator how do you include "crosscutting" initiatives 

 in your planning process? 



When I accepted the position as Dean of the College of Agriculture and 

 Director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station 

 in 1988, the administration, faculty and students in the College of 

 Agriculture had an opportunity to restructure our programs through a 

 University Strategic Planning Process. We took this opportunity to 

 establish a new foundation that utilized "crosscutting" initiatives which 

 allowed the College of Agriculture and the Iowa Agriculture and Home 

 Economics Experiment Station administration and faculty to reach out 

 beyond traditional agriculture and incorporate fundamental programs in 

 other colleges and departments into programs administered in the College 

 of Agriculture. The attached administrative chart reflects the 

 "crosscutting" programs. We established Centers of Excellence which 

 allowed faculty members from departments within the College of 

 Agriculture and departments in other colleges at Iowa State University to 

 work together on topics of common interests. For example, the Utilization 

 Center for Agricultural Products financially supports projects between 



