East Arkansas Community College Announces Degree in Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Press Release
July 17, 2001

 

East Arkansas Community College has announced the opening of a new degree program in Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

 

The Associate of Science Degree will enable students to pursue careers in a wide variety of fields including the business, education, and the communication areas of agriculture. Other fields will include: technology, animal sciences, apparel studies, crop management, dietetics, environmental soil and water services, forestry, fisheries, hospital and restaurant and management and a host of others.

 

EACC will offer the courses in the Associate of Science program beginning in the Fall semester 2001. Initial classes will include a Careers in Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences course, Aquaculture courses, Plant and Food Sciences, Turfgrass Management, and Poultry Sciences. The EACC courses offered in the Fall 2001 semester will be taught in the classroom, and by compressed video. Future courses will also be offered via the Internet.

 

"Many of the community colleges in the state of Arkansas offer courses in the life sciences and agriculture," said Jan Haven, EACC Vice President for Academic Affairs. "By partnering with ACTA, EACC will be able to pool the resources and expertise at the community colleges with those of the participants in the University of Arkansas system. The use of compressed video to telecast classes around the state and Internet­based courses will enable students to utilize academic offerings that would otherwise be inaccessible to them."

 

The degree program will be administered under ACTA, the Arkansas Consortium for Teaching Agriculture. EACC will be included in the partnership of nine community colleges and three University of Arkansas system four-year institutions that offer degrees in agricultural, food and life sciences. The goal of the collegiate alliance is to accommodate a seamless transfer of credits for students at the two-year colleges who elect to pursue a baccalaureate degree at the four-year institutions.

 

"Agriculture and agriculture-related fields account for approximately 25% of the total employee income in the state, more than $8 billion in wages and salaries in 1995. EACC will be instrumental in acquainting students with the 21st century agricultural industry in Arkansas. These students will be shaping the agricultural industry in the state and EACC is proud to be a part of the process," said Haven.

 

For more information about the Associate of Science degrees in Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, please contact the Office of Academic Affairs at East Arkansas Community College.

 

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