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Pennsylvania State University has
received a $100,355 grant from the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle
Creek, Michigan, to establish an
educational program linking
agriculture and the liberal arts.
The Food, Agriculture, and
Society program, developed by
Penn State’s College of Agriculture
in cooperation with the Colleges of
Liberal Arts and Human
Development and the Science,
Technology and Society Program,
will focus on issues facing
agriculture and society.
“We need to develop an informed
public,” says Dr. Dorothy Blair,
assistant professor of nutrition and
agriculture and director of the new
program. “As fewer people are
directly involved in agricultural
production, fewer are aware of the
agricultural issues facing our
society. The agricultural industry
and agricultural researchers can
no longer assume the voting public
understands the problems facing
agriculture today. A liberal
education must include studies
about our agricultural heritage
and about the effects agricultural
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Penn State gets grant to link ag, liberal arts
our environment and on our
economy,” she says.
“Penn State is very fortunate to
receive this grant. Both the
economy and security of this
country have been built upon
agricultural productivity.
Agriculture is a natural resource,
which must be preserved for future
generations. The Kellogg project
will contribute significantly to the
achievement of this goal,” says
Dr. Gene M. Love, associate dean
for the College of Agriculture.
The Kellogg grant will support
program development over a two
year period. In addition, Penn
State has made a continuing
commitment to support faculty
involvement and to fund a
colloquium series as well as a
conference on agriculture and
society.
According to Dr. Rustum Roy,
director of Penn State’s Science,
Technology, and Society program,
director of the Materials Research
Laboratory and member of the
program executive committee,
“The Kellogg effort is an excellent
example of the STS approach to
integrative education. It brings
central aspects of our
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technological culture, namely food
production, into a humanist per
spective.”
Dr. Love, Dr. Herbert Cole Jr.,
professor of plant pathology, and
Dr. John J. Romano, associate
dean for the College of Liberal
Arts, are other members of the
executive committee who will
continue to work with Dr. Blair in
program development.
Core courses will put
agricultural practice and rural life
into historical and ecological
perspective and stress the
relationship between agricultural
production and society. Courses
also will investigate food policy
and the use of food as a political
and economic tool.
Three courses, World Food
Production Systems in Historical
and Ecological Perspective; the
American Food System; History,
Technology and Culture; and
Agriculture, Politics, and Public
Policy will be offered in 1986. They
will be taught in conjunction with
two practical courses in integrated
agriculture offered at the Cir
cleville Farm, a student demon
stration farm supported by the
College of Agriculture and a grant
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from the Pennsylvania state
legislature.
“The Food, Agriculture and
Society program is supportive of
the major educational objectives
of the College of Agriculture,
particularly of its commitment
toward increasing student abilities
in communications and problem
solving and toward student in
volvement in the moral and ethical
issues surrounding world
agriculture, food, and nutrition,”
says Dr. Love.
The Kellogg Foundation first
provided support for programming
to introduce agriculture into the
liberal arts in 1976. Since then
grants have been awarded to more
than 20 projects. Representatives
of the first 11 colleges gathered at a
conference at the University of
Florida, Gainesville, to share with
other universities and colleges
project experiences to help them in
establishing similar programs to
integrate liberal arts and
agriculture.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
established in 1930 to “help people
help themselves,” has distributed
more than $768 million in support
of programs in agriculture,
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education, and health. Areas of
emphasis within those broad fields
include adult continuing
education; betterment of health;
communitywide, coordinated,
cost-effective health services; a
wholesome food supply; and
broadening leadership capacity of
individuals. In Michigan only,
projects are supported for
economic development and op
portunities for youth. The Foun
dation is today among the largest
private philathropic organizations
in the nation. It supports programs
in the United States, Latin
America and the Caribbean as well
as international fellowship
programs in other countries.
Cultivating Agricultural
Literacy: Challenge for the
Liberal Arts was recently
published by the Kellogg Foun
dation. The book looks at the long
range effects that uniformed
decisionmaking has on America’s
food supply. It also details 11
pacesetting foundation-assisted
projects that showed it is feasible
and desirable to introduce data
about food, agriculture, and
agribusiness into the liberal arts
curriculum. Copies of the book can
be ordered free of charge from the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Com
munications Office, 400 North
Avenue, Battle Creek, Michigan
49016.
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