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, DEGREES AND CURRICULA I
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5 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS gg;
l Frank James Welch, M.A., Ph.D., Dean of the College 5;;
1 Levi Jackson Horlacher, M.S., Associate Dean of the College the
Statie Erikson, Ph.D., Director of the School of Home Economics Elie
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I INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT E:]
Q Organization. Agriculture was one of the first subjects taught in the Agri- wel
. cultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. The Department of Botany, Bui
I Horticulture, and Agriculture was organized in 1878 and existed as such until off
1 1908 when it became the College of Agriculture. The Department of Domestic ing
1 Economy was organized in 1906 and in 1918 became the Department of Home In
` Economics in the College of Agriculture. In 1941 the name of the College of salt
» I Agriculture was changed to the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, m€`
Y In 1953 the Department of Home Economics was changed to School of Home the
» Economics. The first class in agriculture was graduated in 1898 and the first is 1
class in home economics was graduated in 1913.
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Aims and Purposes. The College of Agriculture and Home Economics was mc
established for a particular purpose that makes it different from almost any other ex;
type of college. Legislative acts establishing the College, the Experiment Sta- ma
. ` tion, and the Extension Service make the College primarily an institution to nm
` serve rural people. The college is successfully aiding rural people and has de]
developed an educational procedure that {its students to assume responsibilities
in various aspects of rural, as well as urban life. The aim of the college is to all
educate young men and women for careers as useful citizens and leaders in all my
` phases of agriculture and home economics. This may be on the farm, in the fm
home, extension work, teaching, nutrition, research, commercial work, or any shl
other work that requires knowledge of the place that agriculture and home va
` economics have in the world today. The field of opportunity is as wide as the an
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. gi
Faculty. To accomplish these aims and purposes the College of Agricul- tc
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. (ll
Many have national and intemational reputations in their respective fields. th
Some have brought distinction to themselves and to the College by their dis- CU
coveries and investigations, others through books that they have written, and df
still others by their work on state and national problems of many kinds. The {0
privilege of associating with and studying under men and women who know
how to teach and who have the ability to contribute to the soluuon of current C€
problems in agriculture and home economics is an important point to consider 01
in the selection of a college. m