SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: SAC7 : Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
- Period Covered: 02/10/2023 to 02/09/2024
- Date of Report: 02/19/2024
- Annual Meeting Dates: 02/04/2024 to 02/04/2024
Participants
The 2024 annual meeting was held February 4, 2024, at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Meeting in Atlanta. In attendance were Dept Chairs/Heads or representatives from many of the region’s ag econ programs: Auburn, Arkansas, North Carolina A&T, Oklahoma, Tennessee-Knoxville, Florida. Also, attending were a few others (university or USDA administrators) as guests. The meeting was chaired (on an interim basis) by Josh Duke.
Discussion at the meeting included topics such as:
- Departmental faculty versus professional advising: Experiences, pros, and cons
- Undergraduate and graduate programming within departments, including Masters of Ag Business and online programming. Trends in student numbers at the graduate and undergraduate level
- 2023-24 faculty hiring plans/challenges/successes. Faculty staffing levels and gaps. College/University processes for approving faculty positions to be hired
- On-going efforts at the NAAEA and AAEA level on STEM designation for ag econ degrees (updates from NAAEA officers)
- Novel efforts to cover classes when faculty teaching FTEs are insufficient
State reports were submitted on undergraduate and graduate student enrollment, faculty numbers (all numbers are estimates). Note that some departments also have non-agricultural-economics degrees, so the numbers are not necessarily comparable.
- Auburn 200 Undergraduates 30 Graduates 18 Faculty (including current hiring)
- Carolina A&T 160 Undergraduates Graduates 23 Faculty (including current hiring)
- Tennessee 120 Undergraduates 23-30 Graduates 20 Faculty (including current hiring)
- Oklahoma St 600 Undergraduates 15 Graduates 26 Faculty (including current hiring)
- Florida 200 Undergraduates 80-90 Graduates 38 Faculty (including current hiring)
- Arkansas 580 Undergraduates Graduates 20 Faculty (including current hiring)