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faculty members in the College of Agriculture, the College of Business, the 

 I College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the 

 College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the College of Veterinary 

 Medicine. We have similar Centers of Excellence in rural health, rural 

 development, seed technology, international finance, food safety and 

 sustainable agriculture. 



The Centers of Excellence complement the department structure and 

 allows for excellent "crosscutting" initiatives between faculty members 

 throughout the University system. In the budget process, priorities are 

 given to quality projects v^hich include interdisciplinary research. Results 

 of our "crosscutting" initiatives are described in our last two annual 

 reports. I'm going to include this information as an example of our 

 "crosscutting" iiutiatives developed in the College of Agriculture at Iowa 

 State University. 



The new administrative structure for the College of Agriculture also 

 included joinfly administered deparhnents between two colleges. The 

 departments of Economics, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Sociology, 

 Statistics and Zoology-Genetics are jointly administered between the 

 College of Agriculture and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The 

 department of Food Science and Human Nutrition is jointiy administered 

 between the College of Agriculture and the College of Family and 

 Consumer Sciences and the department of Microbiology, Immunology 

 and Preventive Medicine is jointly administered with the College of 

 Veterinary Medidne and the Agriculture College 



The jointiy administered departments between colleges and Center of 

 Excellence have worked well at Iowa State University to allow agriculture 

 to reach beyond its traditional programs to help meet the needs of the 

 agricultural industry as we prepare for the 21st Centiary. Agricultural 

 colleges in the USA should reach beyond their traditional programs and 

 form a new foundation. 



Each university and agricultural college will need to develop programs 

 which best meet their needs as the same plan will not work for all 

 universities in tiie Land-Grant System. The Kellogg Foundation and the 

 National Academy of Sciences studies of the Land-Grant System could 

 help tiie universities with their preparation for the 21st Centiary. It is 

 important that these two studies are coordinated in close cooperation 

 with the agricultural and university administration. 



I've included very detailed information for Questions 6 because I feel strongly 

 about "crosscutting" initiatives in establishing new foundations for agricultural 

 research, insh-uction, and ouh-each programs for agriculture. The new sh-uctiare 

 for our programs in the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University has 

 resulted in significant improvements for our funding base. We are on our fourth 



