private consulting by faculty is 

 significant as well. 



The 16th institution — McNeese 

 State University — is the only one 

 not multifunctional. Here faculty 

 are involved only in resident 

 instruction at the bachelor's degree 

 level and in a forest-technology 

 program (Kitt, personal 

 communication). McNeese State is 

 the only one of the 16 whose 

 professional degree program in 

 forestry had not been accredited as 

 of early 1985 by the Society of 

 American Foresters (Elliott 1985). 



The 12 land-grant universities have 

 an important fifth function — 

 extension work. The Smith-Lever 

 Act of 1914 created a national- 

 State-county system to extend 

 new research and other useful 

 knowledge from such universities 

 to farmers and others not in 

 residence who could apply it to 

 advantage. In the case of forestry 

 and forest products, this transfer of 

 technology is done with and 

 through the State Cooperative 

 Extension Service — a three-way 

 partnership between the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, the 

 State land-grant university, and 

 county governments (National 

 Association of State Universities 

 and Land-Grant Colleges 1978). 



Duke University is the only private 

 institution involved in professional 

 forestry education in the South. It 

 is also unique in offering only 

 graduate degree programs with the 



Master of Forestry as the first 

 professional degree (Smith 1984). 



Table 1 lists the 16 institutions (in 

 order of year the school first 

 granted professional forestry 

 degrees) and certain major 

 characteristics of each (Warren and 

 Wiseman 1985). The table does not 

 include the University of the South 

 at Sewanee, TN, which conducted 

 a professional forestry degree 

 program in the past but was no 

 longer doing so in 1985. It lists 

 only degrees granted by the 

 forestry or forest-products 

 academic unit. Thus, it understates 

 the full scope of graduate 

 education for institutions where 

 forestry or forest-products faculty 

 supervise graduate students in 

 departments of related fields where 

 the thesis research involves a 

 forestry or forest-products problem 

 or application. 



Technician-Level Institutions 



As of early 1985, 13 public 

 institutions in 9 of the 12 Southern 

 States conduct technician-training 

 programs in forest technology. 

 Haywood Technical College also 

 conducts a forest-products 

 technology program, and Lake 

 City Community College has a 

 program in forest-engineering 

 technology. A fourteenth 

 (Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical 

 College) offers forest-products 

 technology only (Moser 1985 

 unpubl.; Knudsen, personal 

 communication). 



