Penn State-Led Consortium Receives Kellogg Planning Grant UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) A consortium led by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has been selected to re ceive one of 12 planning grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to participate in the foundation’s Food Systems Professions Education Initiative. The $133,000 grant will enable the consor tium to design educational program strategies needed to prepare food systems professionals for the 21st century. The consortium will in clude Penn State’s 18 commonwealth cam puses, the Rodale Institute, and Cheyney University. “Penn State’s proposal was one of 12 ap proved by the Kellogg Board after a review of 39 proposals and site visits to 16 institu tions,” said Dr. Nvilliam Lacy, assistant dean for research in the college and program direc tor. An 18-month “visioning” process will be the first step in developing innovations in food systems education. The foundation will conduct six national symposia for the 12 groups to enable them to share their strate gies. At the end of this period, participating institutions will be considered for additional grants to help with implementation. ‘The visioning phase is designed to en gage the higher-education community as well as a wide range of stakeholders in the food system,” said Lacy. “Penn State’s initiative is to create a model educational system based on the changing values and needs of Pennsyl vania’s diverse population.” Participants in the visioning process will include agricultural producers, suppliers, processors, and distributors; environmental agencies and advocates; nutrition and food distribution groups; policy makers; com munity officials and organizations; members of the media; and university leaders. “By involving university leaders, we hope to encourage a broader dialogue regarding the organization and content of education university-wide,” said Lacy. Leading the Penn State consortium are Lacy; Dr. James Mortensen, associate dean for resident education in the college; Dr. Frederick Gaige, chief executive officer at Penn State Berks Campus; Maria van Hek ken, co-director of the Penn State/Rodale Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natur- al Resources in Urbanizing Environments; Dr. Clinton Pettus, vice president for aca demic affairs at Cheyney University; and Dr. G. Gregory Lozier, executive director of Penn State’s Office of Planning and Analy sis. FOR DOUBLE-CROP SOYBEANS THERE'S ONLY ONE LEADER OF THE PACK. PURSUIT® herbicide is today’s best tool for double-crop beans. It not only delivers the highest degree of overall weed control, it’s also the only postemergence product that combines contact and residual activity to give you superior control of more than 40 tough-to-control grasses and broadleaf weeds. Including velvet leaf, foxtails, cocklebur, pig weeds, nightshades, common ragweed, giant ragweed, sun flower, shattercane and seedling Johnsongrass. Without causing crop injury. And because of its Or For More Information Call Your Cyanamld Stem * f’>> 1 ' - J “HI- *■ Western Pennsyhrmnii Area; JimO'Bryvi ; 814-667-3048 5 H 4 1 J Eastern Pennsylvania Area: Mike Fleming 717-627-0661 Now Available in 10A Eco See The AgriCentcr/k Dealer Nearest You Most of the foundation’s grants address the areas of youth; leader ship; philanthropy and volunteer ism; community-based, problem focused health services; higher education; food systems; rural de- veiopment; groundwater re sources; and economic develop ment. Programming priorities concentrate grants in the 'United States, Latin America, the Carib bean, and southern Africa. advanced chemistry and low rates of application, PURSUIT offers a responsible choice for the environment. That’s the kind of leadership everyone can respect. And reason enough to try PURSUIT. See us soon. AgriCenterj% JMiter FwfmlwiHiw • ItnrtM • Eevtiwiwiitsl MipiwlWUly Always mi tat follow lakal Miteiom caiofhlly. "Triinwflr. Amaricsn CymnM ConynyC 1994 Pak’s > t j 1 “ t , « # £ 1,1
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