To Survive, Agricultural Colleges May Need to Abandon Their Undergraduate Programs.

Gelinas, Douglas A.

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To Survive, Agricultural Colleges May Need to Abandon Their Undergraduate Programs.

Gelinas, Douglas A.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n31 pA56 Apr 13 1988

The principal result of the efforts to turn an enrollment decline around in agricultural programs has been a loss of identity. Focusing less on undergraduates and becoming smaller, primarily graduate institutions may be the only way to ensure that agricultural colleges remain to any significant extent agricultural. (MLW)

Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, Futures (of Society), Graduate Study, Higher Education, Land Grant Universities, Recruitment, Undergraduate Study

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