C-FARE Webinar: Cultivating Talent — Agriculture and applied economics at the nation’s 1890 universities

Register today for our latest webinar, 11 a.m. EDT Monday, September 14, 2020. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics will bring together representatives of 1890 schools along with national and regional agricultural and applied economics associations to discuss the place of economics in 1890 universities’ curriculum, as well as the greater importance of 1890 universities’ graduates in the nation’s food and markets policy work.

This 90-minute program will be led by council board member Chyi Lyi “Kathleen” Liang (at bottom right), chair of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association’s (AAEA) mentoring committee and faculty at North Carolina A&T State University, an 1890 school. She’ll be joined by fellow 1890s representatives: 

• Kenrett Jefferson-Moore is a professor and chair of the Department of Agribusiness, Applied Economics and Agriscience Education at NC A&T State. She received her doctorate from Auburn University, and currently serves as the 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and Universities representative on the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board and chairs the AAEA’s Committee on the Opportunities and Status of Blacks in Agricultural Economics (COSBAE).
• Raymon Shange currently serves as the director of the Carver Integrative Sustainability Center and associate Extension administrator at Tuskeegee University. He is responsible for the alignment of integrative research and extension projects targeting production, post-harvest, and policy issues plaguing food systems in the Black Belt South, specifically in Alabama. 
• Dawn Mellion-Patin is a vice chancellor at Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center. After receiving a bachelor’s and master’s from Southern University in plant and soil science, she obtained a Ph.D. from Iowa State University in Ag & Extension Education, and separately, an MBA from Jones International University. Much of her academic and professional life has been spent working with small farmers and at–risk youth.

These faculty members will be joined by representatives of national and regional agricultural and applied economics associations:

• Dawn Thilmany is the president of the AAEA and an Extension economist and professor at Colorado State University specializing in labor and agribusiness management.
• David Anderson, president-elect of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association and a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M, is a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension economist for livestock and food product marketing.
• Sarah Jacobson, an associate professor of economics at Williams College where she is an environmental and behavioral economist, is the diversity and inclusion chair for the Northeastern Agricultural Resource Economics Association.  
• Glynn Tonsor, a professor at Kansas State University whose particular focus within the wider range of integrated research and extension activities is the cattle/beef and swine/pork industries, is president-elect of the Western Agricultural Economics Association.

The program will begin with comments from the speakers representing associations, transition to discussion and presentations from faculty of the three 1890 schools, and finish with questions from attendees. Faculty and administrators from other 1890 schools and HBCU’s are encouraged to register, and to share those plans and areas of interest with C-FARE Board Chair Gal Hochman (boardchair@cfare.org) and Bobby Ampezzan, communications director (information@cfare.org). 

This program is supported in part by the AAEA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service.