Dean of the College
205 Agriculture Building
575-4446
Associate Deans
206 Agriculture Building
575-2252
Associate Vice President for Agriculture/Research
205 Agriculture Building
575-4446
Associate Vice President for Agriculture for Extension
P.O. Box 319
Little Rock,
373-2575
Vice President for Agriculture
Director of the Cooperative Extension Service,
and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station: Milo J. Shult, Ph.D.,
Iowa State University
Dean of the College: Charles J. Scifres, Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Associate Dean: Charlene S. Mooty, Ed.D., University of Alabama
Associate Vice President for Agriculture/Research: Charles J. Scifres, Ph.D., University of Nebraska
Associate Vice President for Agriculture for Extension: David E. Foster, Ph.D., University of Idaho
The curricula include basic courses in physical, biological, and social sciences, mathematics, the humanities, and communications, as well as in technical agriculture and human environmental sciences. Such education is important, not only to agricultural production and family living, but also to related industries and to educational work in these fields.
Most students enrolled in the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences work for a degree either in agriculture or human environmental sciences, but some students who desire additional education of a specific nature but who do not wish to fulfill all requirements for a degree enroll as special or unclassified students.
History and Organization
As the Land-Grant College of the State, the University of Arkansas
has the responsibility for leadership in agriculture and human environmental
sciences. The Division of Agriculture includes the programs of the College
of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, the Agricultural Experiment Station
and the Cooperative Extension Service.
Through the Morrill Act of 1862, a grant of land was made to each state for the establishment of a college "where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts in such manner as the legislatures of the state may prescribe in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life." The passage of the Hatch Act in 1887, and subsequent legislation, made possible the Agriculture Experiment Station. The Smith-Lever Act of 1914, plus subsequent legislation, made possible the Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Human Environmental Sciences.
The University of Arkansas College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences enjoys an enviable prestige among the colleges of agriculture and human environmental sciences in the nation. The agricultural sciences have been taught at the University of Arkansas almost from the beginning of the institution in 1872, and the first degrees in the agricultural sciences were conferred by the University almost 90 years ago.
The Ben J. Altheimer Chair for Cotton Production Research was established May 15, 1951. The program of the Division of Agriculture was further recognized and strengthened in 1972 by the permanent endowment of two chairs in Agriculture, the Ben J. Altheimer Chair for Soybean Research and the L.C. Carter Chair in Market Policy. Both chairs had been supported prior to 1972 from annual gifts. In 1974 a third chair, the Elms Farming-Richard S. Barnett, Jr., Chair of Weed Science was endowed. In 1988 the Arkansas Poultry Federation created the Endowed Chair for Poultry Science. This chair brings additional opportunity for excellence to the Division. The chairs are occupied by outstanding scientists whose research and teaching enhance the program of the College. The program was greatly enhanced during 1980 by the completion and dedication of the Altheimer Laboratory located on the Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Vice President for Agriculture heads the Division of Agriculture. The Director of the Cooperative Extension Service reports directly to the Vice President of Agriculture. The Dean of the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station positions were combined on July 1, 1987, into one position. The Dean and Director reports directly to the Vice President for Agriculture for the agricultural research programs and to the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs for the instructional programs.
Degrees Offered
The Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.S.A.)
The Bachelor of Science in Human Environmental Sciences (B.S.H.E.S.)
Non-Degree Training
Students who are qualified for college entrance, or mature students who
do not desire to complete a degree, may take special work, selecting such
subjects as will meet their needs.
Conferences and Study Days
A number of conferences and study days for the people of the State, as
well as in-service training for professional groups, are sponsored by the
College throughout the year. Inquiries concerning these programs should
be directed to the Dean of the College.
Admission to the College
All entering students (including freshmen, international, and transfer
students) admitted to the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, are eligible
for admission to the College of Agri-cultural, Food and Life Sciences.
College Scholarships
There are a number of scholarships for students in agriculture and in
human environmental sciences made possible by generous gifts from
many firms and individuals. For more information on the following
scholarships and awards, write to the Dean of the College or to the
head of a particular department if a department is indicated.
Acacia - two scholarships awarded to students majoring in agronomy and plant pathology.
Ethel O. Adair - awarded to human environmental sciences students who have completed their third year of college.
Roy C. Adair - two scholarships awarded to students majoring in agronomy and plant pathology who have completed their third year of college.
4-H Agronomy - $1,000 award given to State 4-H Record Book winners in soybeans, cotton, plant and soil science, who are majoring in agronomy.
Governor Homer M. Adkins Scholarship - given every third year to an agricultural student who is a talented citizen of Arkansas.
Agricultural Economics Club Scholarship - awarded to a junior majoring in agricultural business, or domestic who will be classified as a senior the following school year.
Allied Poultry Industries (Arkansas Poultry) - awarded each year to ten or more poultry science majors.
Allied Poultry Industries Junior Award - $1,500 award given to an outstanding poultry science junior.
Alpha Zeta - awarded each year to an agricultural student who is active in Alpha Zeta.
Robert W. Anderson - awarded to a freshman student who is seeking a degree in plant protection/pest management, entomology, or weed science.
Arkansas Agricultural Pesticide Association (Henry De Salvo Memorial) - awarded to a junior- or senior-level student who has financial need and an interest in pesticides who is majoring in either agronomy, plant protection/ pest management, or horticulture.
Arkansas Agricultural Consultants Association - awarded to a junior or senior majoring in plant science.
Arkansas Anhydrous Ammonia Dealers Association - Eddie Davis - awarded to a sophomore, junior, or senior student who has financial need.
Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council - awarded to a junior or senior majoring in human environmental sciences whose parent is an Extension agent.
Arkansas Feed Manufacturers - four full-tuition scholarships awarded to animal science majors.
Arkansas Florist Association - awarded to a student majoring in horticulture.
Arkansas Pest Control - awarded to a student majoring in entomology.
Arkansas Plant Food Society - awarded to a student majoring in agronomy.
Woody N. Miley Arkansas Plant Food Educational Society - Alumni - awarded to a junior- or senior-level student majoring in either agronomy or plant science in recognition of academic achievement.
Arkansas Electric Cooperatives - awarded to an agricultural student and a human environmental sciences student whose parents obtain electricity from an Arkansas Electric Cooperative.
Arkansas Seed Dealers - two scholarships awarded to agronomy majors in their junior or senior year.
Arkansas State Horticultural Society - awarded to majors in horticulture or landscape design and urban horticulture. Competitive with students from other Arkansas schools with horticulture programs.
Arkansas State Horticultural Society - Joseph E. Vail - awarded to a student majoring in horticulture.
BASF Wyandotte - awarded to an outstanding student majoring in poultry science.
Lucille Cobb Beiling - awarded to a human environmental sciences student.
Beginning Scholar - awarded to a first semester freshman who has completed the Beginning Scholar Program.
Bella Vista Garden Club Scholarship - awarded to a student interested in ornamental horticulture.
Vivian Brite Biggs Scholarships - awarded to students majoring in foods and nutrition.
Bob and Marilyn Bogle - awarded to a horticultural student majoring in landscape design and urban horticulture.
Katherina Bollenbacher - a scholarship awarded to give promising students the opportunity to become familiar with research methods and to enable them to evaluate their capacity for graduate work.
Gunter and Lucille Brooks - awarded to a student majoring in horticulture or landscape design and urban horticulture.
Paul and Irma Boyer - awarded to a student majoring in either entomology or plant protection/pest management.
Gordon R. Brown - awarded to agricultural or human environmental sciences students from Lonoke County.
Margaret Brownfield - awarded to an agricultural or human environmental sciences student from Washington County
Campbells Institute - awarded to students majoring in animal or poultry science.
Mr. & Mrs. Cy Carney - awarded to students in agriculture. Based on scholarship, leadership, and financial need.
Cobb-Vantress International/Tom Edmiston - awarded to students majoring in poultry science.
Collegiate 4-H - awarded to an undergraduate student who has been active in Collegiate 4-H for at least one year and maintains an active membership.
John I. Coley - awarded to an upperclass undergraduate male student who plans to become a County Agent.
Sherman Cullum - awarded to a sophomore, junior, or senior student who has financial need.
Dalton Scholarship - available to students enrolled in human environmental sciences.
Fred Delzell - awarded to a student majoring in agricultural business.
Fontaine R. Earle Scholarship in Crop Science - awarded to undergraduate and graduate students who are studying in the area of plants.
James Edmondson Scholarship Fund in Agricultural Marketing - awarded to two junior- or senior-level students in agricultural marketing.
Lester Elliott - awarded to students in agriculture and human environmental sciences.
Lippert Ellis - awarded to a junior-level agricultural or human environmental sciences student who has the highest grade-point average at the end of the sophomore year.
Dr. and Mrs. James Ewart - awarded to students in the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences who have been active in high school F.F.A..
Animal Sciences Robert Felsman Scholarship - awarded to an undergraduate student who is majoring in animal science and has at least a 3.00 grade- point average in his major.
Virginia Ferguson Memorial Scholarship - awarded to a junior of senior student who is a member of Phi Upsilon Omicron.
FFA Scholarship - awarded to a freshman student who is interested in FFA.
Virgil and Inez Fielder Endowed Scholarship - awarded to students who have an interest in agricultural economics or agricultural business and who have promise of high scholarship.
Joseph E. Fleming - awarded to freshman students who were in the Beginning Scholars Program.
4-H House Alumni - awarded to a student in agriculture.
Richard H. Forsythe - awarded to a student majoring in poultry science.
Fort Smith Kennel Club - awarded to a student majoring in pre-veterinary medicine.
Gamma Sigma Delta - two scholarships awarded to agricultural and human environmental sciences majors based on scholarship and financial need.
Gerber Baby Food - awarded to a student with interest in fruits and vegetables.
Irma Fitch Giffels in Human Environmental Sciences - two or three scholarships awarded to human environmental sciences majors with financial need.
Rebecca Sholley Gifford - two or three scholarships awarded to human environmental sciences majors.
Daryle and Peggy Greene - awarded to a student majoring in animal or poultry science.
Nancy J. Hall Memorial - awarded to students majoring in horticulture.
Pat Hardy - awarded to students majoring in agricultural education.
Harold and Iva Hicks, Endowed - awarded to a student majoring in agronomy, entomology, plant pathology, agricultural business, or human environmental sciences.
Dale A. and Wilhelmina Hinkle - awarded to an upper-level agronomy major with emphasis in environmental sciences.
Hubbard Farms - awarded to a senior in the Department of Animal Science.
Hilliard and Eloise Jackson Educational Support Fund - awards two undergraduate scholarships, one to a human environmental sciences major, the other to an agricultural economics and rural sociology major. First priority will be given to students from Crawford and Franklin Counties.
Dwight Isely - awarded to a student majoring in entomology.
Institute of Food Technologists - awarded through national competition, to students majoring in food science.
Ahmed A. Kattan Scholarship - awarded to a student majoring in food science.
Carl B. and Florence E. King - awarded to a sophomore, junior, or senior following a pre-veterinary medicine academic program.
May S. Lewis and Paul K. Lewis, Sr. Memorial - awarded to undergraduate students in animal science who have at least a 3.00 grade-point average.
Charles Lincoln- awarded to a student majoring in entomology.
Lucille and Delton V. Maloch - awarded to students in agriculture or human environmental sciences with financial need who are in good academic standing. Preference given to children of Cooperative Extension employees.
Vera McNair Memorial - awarded to an outstanding student in human environmental sciences. Preference is given to students in foods and human nutrition.
Xzin McNeal - awarded to agricultural engineering or interior design majors.
Henry J. Meenen Cooperative Scholarship - awarded to a student in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
Danny Metz - awarded to students majoring in animal science.
Bob Mills Memorial - awarded to an undergraduate in agriculture from Washington County who has financial need.
Moorman Company - awarded to agriculture students whose interests are in agriculture economics or business, animal science, or vocational agriculture.
J.I. Morgan Grain Merchandising - awarded to a sophomore, junior, or senior student majoring in agriculture business.
Talmadge S. Nelson Scholarship - awarded to a poultry or animal science major.
Al and Lorena Neuman - awarded to students majoring in animal science.
NIPFDA - awarded to a junior or senior who has obtained academic excellence and has involvement in poultry and food-related activities.
Paul Noland Scholarship in Animal Science - awarded to a sophomore- or junior-level student in animal science with an interest in swine. Based on scholastic achievement and need.
Northwest Arkansas Tomato Growers - unrestricted scholarship available to students enrolled in the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.
Eula Noyce Memorial Scholarship - awarded to a junior- or senior- level student majoring in human development and family studies.
M. Sam Offutt Memorial Scholarship in Agronomy - a scholarship awarded to a student majoring in agronomy.
Ozark Food Processors Association - several scholarships available for food science majors.
John Rust Foundation - scholarships awarded to students majoring in agriculture or human environmental sciences.
Leo J. Sellmeyer Charitable Trust - two scholarships awarded to agricultural business or agricultural economics majors who have financial need. Must be at least"C" students.
Romeo E. Short - ten scholarships awarded to students in agriculture and human environmental sciences.
Simmons Industries Poultry - awarded to students majoring in poultry science.
Mildred Bartholomew Sidwell - awarded to an agricultural or human environmental sciences student based primarily on need.
Inez Sitton Trust - awarded to a human environmental sciences major.
Robert and Hazel Spitze Foundation - awarded to agricultural business and human environmental sciences education majors.
Joe and Gretchen Steele - awarded to a student majoring in food science.
E.L. Stephenson - awarded to a junior or senior student majoring in poultry science.
E.E. Strang Living Memorial - awarded to a sophomore, junior, or senior from Sebastian County who is enrolled in the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.
Charles A. Stutte - awarded to an outstanding undergraduate student majoring in agronomy.
Manila and Alfred Taylor - awarded to a student from DeQueen High School majoring in human environmental sciences.
Randal Tyson - awarded to a junior or senior student majoring in poultry science. Based on academic background and leadership ability.
Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award - one award given per year to a student who has been nominated by the institution.
John W. White - Gamma Sigma Delta - awarded to a sophomore, junior, or senior based on grade-point average and leadership.
John W. White Human Environmental Sciences - awarded to a junior- or senior- level human environmental sciences major.
John W. White Scholarship in Agricultural Economics - awarded to a sophomore- or junior-level student majoring in agricultural economics and rural sociology.
John W. White Human Environmental Sciences Scholarship - Agricultural Development Council - awarded to students majoring in human environmental sciences.
John W. White Agricultural Science Scholarship-Agricultural Development Council - awarded to students majoring in agriculture.
Laura Yeater - awarded to female students majoring in agricultural education or home economics education.
Harvey A. York Plant Breeding - awarded to an outstanding junior student in agronomy with an interest in plant breeding.
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