V DEGREES AND CURRICULA
IN THE
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
Frank James Welch, M.A., Ph.D., Dean of the College
Stanley Wall, M.S., Ed.D., Associate Dean of the College
Abby Marlatt, B.S., Ph.D., Director of the School of Home Economics
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
Organization. Agriculture was one of the first subjects taught in the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. The Department of Botany,
I Horticulture, and Agriculture was organized in 1878 and existed as such until
1908 when it became the College of Agriculture. The Department of Domestic
Economy was organized in 1906 and in 1918 became the Department of Home
Economics in the College of Agriculture. In 1941 the name of the College of
Agriculture was changed to the College of Agriculture and Home Economics.
In 1953 the Department of Home Economics was changed to School of Home
Economics. The first class in agriculture was graduated in 1898 and the first
i class in home economics was graduated in 1913.
_ Aims and Purposes. The College of Agriculture and Home Economics was
E established for a particular purpose that makes it different from almost any other
1 type of college. Legislative acts establishing the College, the Experiment Sta-
, tion, and the Extension Service make the College primarily an institution to
’ serve rural people. The college is successfully aiding rural people and has
_ developed an educational procedure that Hts students to assume responsibilities
in various aspects of rural, as well as urban life. The aim of the college is to
educate young men and women for careers as useful citizens and leaders in all
phases of agriculture and home economics. This may be on the farm, in the
home, extension work, teaching, nutrition, research, commercial work, or any
other work that requires knowledge of the place that agriculture and homc
economics have in the world today. The field of opportunity is as wide as the
relation of agriculture and home economics to industry, commerce, and finance.
In all these areas of endeavor new places and new uses are being found for
well educated, able men and women.
Faculty. To accomplish these aims and purposes the College of Agricul-
ture and Home Economics has built up a scholarly, able, and forward looking
faculty. The men and women who compose the faculty are selected because
they are good teachers, have a thorough knowledge of their chosen fields, and
have the ability to guide and inspire others in their study of these fields. Some
devote part of their time to the Experiment Station or to the Extension Division.
Many have national and international reputations in their respective fields.
Some have brought distinction to themselves and to the College by their dis-
coveries and investigations, others through books that they have written, and
still others by their work on state and national problems of many kinds. The
privilege of associating with and studying under men and women who know
how to teach and who have the ability to contribute to the solution of current
problems in agriculture and home economics is an important point to consider
in the selection of a college.