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Our Purpose: We bring knowledge to life.
Our Core Values: Discovery
Life-long learning
Science-based knowledge
Academic freedom
Civility and Professionalism
Diversity
Our Goal: To be the standard of excellence for colleges of agricultural and environmental sciences.
Our Indicators of Success: We will know progress is being made toward our goal when:
Our driving force: The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences is committed to providing programs designed to respond to the complexity of needs of Ohio's population and the demands on Ohio's resources. New issues arise regularly, as citizens become even more environmentally and socially aware, as the scale of agriculture production increases, and as technological advances change the fundamental nature of production. Our college takes these issues seriously.
We have adopted a model that guides our work in all areas of the college. This model is built on four areas of focus: production efficiency, economic viability, environmental compatibility, and social responsibility. A pyramid has been chosen to provide a visual representation of this model. Each wall of the pyramid represents one of the four dimensions. Four equal walls provide support and strength to each other and emphasize the critical need for balance and integration of the four areas. Disregarding one of the dimensions would weaken the structure significantly; operating without considering two dimensions would cause the system to collapse.
Teachers and researchers within the College are trained in a variety of disciplines - plant and animal biology, entomology, microbiology, soil science, food science, engineering, economics, sociology, education and communications. These disciplines view the world in different ways, just as differences exist among the perspectives and priorities of our diverse stakeholder groups. The ideals of the pyramid are intended to be meaningful to everyone in the College as well as to those who look to us as an education resource. The pyramid model provides a "common ground" framework for better understanding differences, engaging more effectively in the public discussion of them, and ultimately resolving them and working together to address societal needs.
Click here to learn more about the paradigm.
Our Core Values: Discovery
Life-long learning
Science-based knowledge
Academic freedom
Civility and Professionalism
Diversity
Our Goal: To be the standard of excellence for colleges of agricultural and environmental sciences.
Our Indicators of Success: We will know progress is being made toward our goal when:
- Integrated teaching, research, and extension focus on economic, environmental, social, and production issues.
- Faculty, staff, students, and external partners operate as co-learners.
- Diversity is evident throughout the college.
- We open the world to our students, stakeholders, staff, and faculty.
- The best faculty, staff, and students seek to work and learn here.
- Employers actively seek our graduates.
- Our alumni are leaders and recognized professionals.
- Each unit within the college is among the best in the nation.
- We make high impact discoveries.
- Faculty, staff, and students work and learn in state-of-the-art facilities.
- We are the model for extending to people the latest research-based information.
- The citizens of Ohio provide personal and financial support for the college.
Our driving force: The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences is committed to providing programs designed to respond to the complexity of needs of Ohio's population and the demands on Ohio's resources. New issues arise regularly, as citizens become even more environmentally and socially aware, as the scale of agriculture production increases, and as technological advances change the fundamental nature of production. Our college takes these issues seriously.
We have adopted a model that guides our work in all areas of the college. This model is built on four areas of focus: production efficiency, economic viability, environmental compatibility, and social responsibility. A pyramid has been chosen to provide a visual representation of this model. Each wall of the pyramid represents one of the four dimensions. Four equal walls provide support and strength to each other and emphasize the critical need for balance and integration of the four areas. Disregarding one of the dimensions would weaken the structure significantly; operating without considering two dimensions would cause the system to collapse.
Teachers and researchers within the College are trained in a variety of disciplines - plant and animal biology, entomology, microbiology, soil science, food science, engineering, economics, sociology, education and communications. These disciplines view the world in different ways, just as differences exist among the perspectives and priorities of our diverse stakeholder groups. The ideals of the pyramid are intended to be meaningful to everyone in the College as well as to those who look to us as an education resource. The pyramid model provides a "common ground" framework for better understanding differences, engaging more effectively in the public discussion of them, and ultimately resolving them and working together to address societal needs.
Click here to learn more about the paradigm.