Cultivating talent — Agriculture and applied economics at the nation’s 1890 universities

The 19 institutions established under the Second Morrill Act of 1890 comprise a group of historically black universities (HBCU’s) seeded with federal dollars in order to strengthen research, extension and education in food and agricultural sciences. Applied economics is an important discipline across both courses of study.

At 11 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 14, the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics will bring together representatives of 1890 schools and national and regional agricultural and applied economics associations to discuss the importance of this nexus in 1890 universities’ curriculum, and the greater importance of 1890 universities’ graduates in the nation’s food and commodities’ policy work.

This 90-minute panel webinar will be led by council board member Chyi Lyi “Kathleen” Liang, chair of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association mentoring committee and faculty at North Carolina A&T State University, an 1890 school. She’ll be joined by these presenters and speakers:

 

The program will begin with comments from the speakers representing associations, transition to discussion and presentations from faculty of the three 1890 schools, and finish with questions from attendees. Faculty and administrators from other 1890 schools and HBCU’s are encouraged to register, and share those plans and areas of interest with C-FARE Board Chair Gal Hochman (boardchair@cfare.org) and Bobby Ampezzan, communications director (information@cfare.org).

This program is supported in part by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service.

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