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Front Matter i-xii
Overview 1-16
Title Page 17-18
1 Introduction 19-26
Part I: Conference Papers 27-28
2 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The University Vantage Point 29-34
3 Rethinking Undergraduate Professional Education for the Twenty-First Century: The Public Policy Vantage Point 35-40
4 The Challenges for Professional Education in Agriculture: A Corporate Vantage Point 41-50
5 The Environmental Curriculum: An Undergraduate Land-Grant Future? 51-54
6 Environment and Ecology: Greening the Curriculum, A Public Policy Perspective 55-59
7 The Inherent Value of the College Core Curriculum 60-67
8 General Education and the New Curriculum 68-74
9 Agriculture: A System, a Science, or a Commodity 75-85
10 Educating a Culturally Diverse Professional Work Force for the Agriculural, Food, and Natural Resource System 86-94
11 Scientific Literacy: The Enemy is Us 95-103
12 The Priority: Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority 104-108
13 Positioning Undergraduate Professional Education as the Priority 109-112
14 Science, Technology, and the Public 113-120
15 A Challenge, a Charge, and a Commitment 121-122
Part II: Conference Discussions 123-124
16 Teaching and Research: Balance as an Imperative 125-140
17 Rewarding Excellence in Teaching: An Administrative Challenge 141-147
18 Integrating Agriculture into Precollege Education: Opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12 148-157
19 Toward Integrative Thinking: A Teaching Challenge 158-164
20 Striving Toward Cultural Diversity 165-172
21 Designing an Environmentally Responsible Undergraduate Curriculum 173-187
22 Breaking Tradiations in Curriculum Design 188-198
23 Changing the Image of Agriculture Through Curriculum Innovation 199-203
24 Teaching Science as Inquiry 204-207
25 Emphasizing the Social Sciences and Humanities 208-221
26 Teaching Agricultural Science as a System 222-236
27 The Social and Ethical Context of Agriculture: Is It There and Can We Teach It? 237-244
28 The Economic Context of Agriculture 245-250
29 The Global Context of Agriculture 251-256
Appendixes 257-258
A: Program Participants 259-278
B: Poster Exhibits 279-280

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Agriculture and the Undergraduate (1992)

Chapter: 15 A Challenge, a Charge, and a Commitment

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Chapter: 15 A Challenge, a Charge, and a Commitment