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August 20. Entries postmarked on • The college has the highest
or before August 20 were budget for research within the
accepted at $l5 per animal. entire Penn State University sys-
Entries on August 21 through tern. "We're committed to doing
Sept 1 will be accepted at $25 per research that matters” he said,
animal. Entries must be submitted adding that the world-wide influ
on the forms provided by the All- ence of the college is growing.
American. • The college depends upon pri-
Four breed sales will add mark- vatc funds for support. Last year,
eting opportunities to the AU- in competing for external research
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dollars, the college received $l5
million. This year it is up to $2O
million. Hood said.
• He said the college is one of the
leading institutions in interdiscip
linary and intercollegiate coopera
tion, even though he said it was
strained by limited resources.-In
1984, the initial computer network
was started. Currently, Hood said
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the computer hardware system is
out of date and needs updated. He
noted that Penn Pages, the col
lege’s computer information
access system, recently celebrated
its 1 millionth access for informa
tion. It has been in operation since
198 S.
A statewide satelite system to
be used in conjunction with the
computer system is the next stage,
he said. Ag Sat is to provide a dedi
cated up link at the college and 67
terminal downlinks (satelite dis
hes) across the state. There are 30
installed at this time, he said. Once
in place, it will allow for “very
wide information access.”
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• Since the university went to be
a member of the Big 10 colleges
for sports reasons, the effect has
been good for the college of agri
culture, because now it is allowed
to be involved with international
project consortia and the college is
currently involved in projects from
Albania to Poland.
• Enrollments at the college
increased 6.3 percent last year, and
an increase is anticipated for this
fall, though it was too early for fall
enrollments to be estimated, he
said. In the past five years, includ
ing last year, he said enrollments
have increased 29 percent.
• The college is the
Bth largest college of
agriculture in the nation,
one of six ag colleges in
the Big 10, and it has the
largest undergraduate
student body (about
2,400) in the Big 10.
• The Penn Stale
Berks Campus, located
in Berks County, has
been the focusing on
agricultural programs
and has experienced a
74 percent increase in
paid accepts.
• The environmental
resources management
course offered has
doubled to 470 students
and graduates “all get
good jobs,” Hood said,
“because it is heavily
science oriented.”
• The college has
been forced to limit
acceptance into its land
scaping courses,
because of popularity.
• The intership prog
ram is a success with
200 employers offering
more than 2,000 inter
ships which provide
opportunities for col
lege credit. To date
there are SO students
enrolled in the program
and the internships are
all over the world. In
this vien, the society has
offered 10 $5OO awards
to those students who
have completed out
standing internship
programs.
• Scholarships are an
increasingly bigger fac
tor in attracting and
keeping good students,
he said. Last year, the
college awarded
$450,000 in scholar
ships to 335 students,
which is more than a
100 percent increase
since 1988.
• About 70 percent of
the ag sciences $9O mil
lion budget comes from
public appropriations.
With less and less sup
port coming from state
and federal sources, a
downsizing of college
staff has been per
formed and will con
tinue as state support
decreases. In 1989 the
college staff was 300
strong. Today it has
been pared down to 260.
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