Vision for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

North Carolina State University

Johnny C. Wynne

October 27, 2004

Vision

• A premier land-grant college committed to excellence in teaching, research and extension as judged by those we serve and by our peers.

Elements of Vision

• Produce society-ready graduates by providing world-class education

• Scholarships to meet the needs of the 21st century• Innovation that drives economic development• A committed, inclusive community of scholars

that serves all citizens• Organizational capability and effectiveness

Premise of Vision

“We aren’t a university on the verge of achievement. We are already there. We have already achieved, and we will continue to achieve.”

Welcoming Speech

Chancellor Designate, J. L. Oblinger

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• Already an outstanding college

• We have already achieved

• We will continue to achieve

• Continuous quality improvements and focusing on our programs “making the best better”

Documentation of College as “Excellent”

• Academics

• Research

• Extension

• Budget

• Programmatically

• Private support

Enrollment – Fall 2002 Undergraduate Masters Doctoral

Texas A&M 5,639 Texas A&M 734 Wisconsin 721Iowa State 3,894 Iowa State 449 Texas A&M 624NC State 3,418 NC State 358 Florida 520Ohio State 3,221 Florida 357 NC State 400Florida 2,635 Michigan State 340 Iowa State 378Michigan State 2,567 Minnesota 317 Illinois 357Wisconsin 2,190 Wisconsin 257 Ohio State 341Illinois 1,911 Illinois 220 Michigan State 337Penn State 1,882 Penn State 216 Penn State 287Minnesota 1,752 Ohio State 164 Minnesota 150

Degrees Awarded

Undergraduate Masters Doctoral

Texas A&M 1,642 Texas A&M 252 Texas A&M 102Illinois 1,094 Illinois 209 Illinois 101Iowa State 824 Florida 182 Wisconsin 98NC State 752 Iowa State 136 Iowa State 71Michigan State 693 Michigan State 133 NC State 69Florida 534 NC State 124 Michigan State 62Ohio State 491 Minnesota 107 Penn State 62Wisconsin 469 Wisconsin 104 Florida 50Penn State 447 Penn State 77 Minnesota 26Minnesota 243 Ohio State 26 Ohio State 9

Comparison of Research Quality and Productivity - 2002

# FTE Scientists Total Funds (millions) Total Funds/FTE

California 490.2 California $253,910 Wisconsin $607,141Florida 323.5 Texas A&M $134,769 Texas A&M $518,143Texas A&M 260.1 Florida $123,710 California $517,972Penn State 251.5 Wisconsin $104,489 Iowa State $480,275NC State 188.7 Iowa State $ 85,489 Ohio State $443,930Minnesota 180.3 NC State $ 81,051 NC State $429,523Iowa State 178.0 Minnesota $ 74,874 Minnesota $415,275Wisconsin 172.1 Illinois $ 61,681 Illinois $407,673Illinois 151.3 Ohio State $ 54,559 Florida $382,411Ohio State 122.9 Penn State $ 52,466 Penn State $208,612

Cooperative Extension 2002-2003

Professional FTE Clientele Contacts Clientele Contacts/FTE

Texas A&M 903 Texas A&M 16,036,968 Florida 18,959Ohio State 627.5 Ohio State 11,619,082 Ohio State 18,516NC State 598 Florida 7,716,440 Texas A&M 17,760Michigan State 544 NC State 7,183,043 NC State 12,012Wisconsin 490 Michigan State 2,772,936 Illinois 7,795Iowa State 443 Illinois 2,571,078 Michigan State 5,097Florida 407 Wisconsin 1,148,632 Wisconsin 2,344Minnesota 368 Iowa State 760,000 Penn State 2,273Penn State 330 Penn State 750,000 Iowa State 1,716Illinois 329.83 Minnesota 309,000 Minnesota 840

Cooperative Extension 2002-2003

County Funding # Volunteers # Hours Volunteered

Florida $30,026,003 NC State 82,026 Florida 1,530,502Texas A&M $24,737,886 Texas A&M 77,520 Ohio State 1,265,773NC State $21,561,880 Florida 66,782 Minnesota 1,167,311Iowa State $20,039,371 Ohio State 50,010 Michigan State 931,363Wisconsin $20,013,202 Illinois 46,062 NC State 808,837Ohio State $18,600,000 Minnesota 37,068 Texas A&M 353,643Michigan State $16,633,494 Michigan State 28,352 Illinois 140,551Minnesota $16,293,106 Wisconsin 27,221 Wisconsin 112,772Illinois $13,742,567 Penn State 15,000 Iowa State 80,123Penn State $10,400,000 Iowa State 13,300 Penn State NR

FY03-04 Budget Information(Based on Expenditures -- Millions)

Source of Funds Acad NCARS NCCES TotalFederal 6.55 14.2620.81State 23.40 44.98 35.13 103.51County 22.31 22.31C/G 0.50 37.43 9.22 47.15County C/G 7.45 7.45Overhead Rec. 1.67 0.30 1.97Sales/Ser. 0.80 1.98 6.36 9.14Found. 2.90 4.40 2.21 9.51Misc. Gifts 0.20 2.85 0.33 3.38Totals 27.80 99.86 97.57 225.23

Contracts & Grants – 1998-2004

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Comprehensive Program• Land-grant Mission

– Programs that benefit citizens and communities of state– Dependent on progress in life and environmental sciences– Economic development with emphasis on agriculture and

rural NC– Youth development programs

• Social Sciences– Resource and environmental economics– Sociology, family and consumer sciences– Youth programs (4-H, FFA)

Comprehensive Program

• Environmental Sciences– Center for Environmental Farming Systems– Water Quality and Waste Management– Integrated Pest Management– Ecology– Environmental Toxicology– Environmental and Resource Economics

Comprehensive Program

• Life Sciences– Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiology,

Toxicology– Plant Sciences, Animal Sciences– Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics,

Bioinformatics– Molecular and Cellular Biology

Interdisciplinary Programs

• Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS)

• Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM)• Center for Fungal Genomics• Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center• Nutrition• Food Safety• Bioinformatics Research Center

Interdisciplinary Programs

• Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology• Center for Advanced Processing and Packaging• W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology• Center for the Biology of Nematode Parasitism• Center for Computational Biology• Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center• Center for Marine Sciences and Technology

Private Support of the College Since FY 2001

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Actual2001

Goal2002

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Actual2004

Millions ofDollars

20.527.6 27

41.635

45.8 43 40.9

Excellent Personnel

• Faculty– Tenured/tenure track 419– EPA (non-tenured) 51– Field Faculty 238– EPA Professional – Campus 333– EPA Professional – Counties 276

Excellent Personnel

• Staff 990– Human Resources

– Finance and Business

– Information Technology

– Technical Assistance

– Advancement

– Career Services

– Student Services

• Volunteers and Partners

Good Facilities

• Research Stations 18• Field Laboratories 7• Phytotron• Biological Resource Facility• Greenhouses – Academic/Research• Genomics Laboratory• Electron Microscopy Center• Plant Disease and Insect Clinic• Student Computer Lab

Good Facilities

• Cellular and Molecular Imaging• Herbarium• Insectary• Mass Spectrometry Facility• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility• Rheology Laboratory• Pilot Plant• Spatial Information Research Laboratory

Realizing the Vision

• Excellent College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

• Moving in right direction (quality faculty, improving scholarships, external support, partnerships, facilities, programs)

• Always opportunity for improvement– Improvements in progress– Proposed enhancements– New initiatives

On-going Initiative from Compact-Increasing Budget Flexibility for Agricultural Programs

97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/0303/04

NCARS % 19.7 21.5 20.3 17.9 15.6 15.915.6

Total (M) 49.9 52.7 52.8 53.6 52.5 51.251.5

NCCES % 15.5 16.3 12.8 11.9 10.1 13.214.9

Total (M) 48.9 51.4 50.7 51.1 47.3 46.348.3

% Operating and Total Budget

Budget

• Hold positions vacant or reduce positions

• Increase federal funding (special appropriations)

• Use grant or private funds (direct or indirect)

Goal:Increase operating support

Organizational Capability and Effectiveness

• Finance and Business Processes

• Human Resource Processes

• Information Technology

Recruit and Retain Faculty

• Task force

• Salary equity for research and extension (on and off-campus) faculty

• Field faculty (starting and equity)

• Reynolds Professorships (6)

Building An Inclusive, Multi-Cultural Community of Scholars

NC Students Faculty (TT)

(8.4M) (4,476) (419)

White 72.1 81.4 91.9

Minorities 27.9 18.6 8.1

Females 51.0 55.3 18.0

Building An Inclusive, Multi-Cultural Community of Scholars

• Appointment of Assistant Dean for Diversity

• Development of a Multi-cultural Awareness Program

• Recruitment of faculty and students

• Change agent states for diversity

Enhancing Facilities

• Renovation of campus buildings -- Bond I (Clark Laboratory, Schaub Hall, Williams Hall, Polk Hall, South Gardner)

• Research space on Centennial Campus (Partners II, III)

• Arboretum Educational Center, Beef Educational Unit, Feed Mill Animal Nutrition Research Center

• Proteomics Laboratory

Property Sale

159-Acre Tract $14,500,000

Less State of NC 4,000,000

Less State Land Fund 725,000

Less Expenses 230,000

Total $ 9,545,000

Property To Be Acquired516 Brickhaven Drive

Brickhaven Drive Lot #2

Cherokee Brick Building

Southeastern Container (101 acres -- Mountain Hort Station)

Tetterton Lot (.5 acre at CMAST)

Creative Carpentry (.2 acre at CMAST)

Swart Tract (16 acres at Castle Hayne Research Station)

Fairman Tract (8 acres at Upper Piedmont Research Station)

Williamsdale Farm (612 acres in Duplin County)

Breeze Farm (164 acres in Orange County)

Enhancing Facilities

Exchanged

Trenton Road West 96 acres

Acquired

Joe Lee Tract at Lake Wheeler 94 acres

Eyebeam Building (adjacent to Arboretum)

Enhancing Facilities

Proposed Sale of Randleigh Field Laboratory

• Modernize Dairy Facilities at Lake Wheeler

• Endow Field Lab Operation

• Build Ruminant Nutrition Laboratory

• Purchase Milling Equipment

Enhancing Facilities

• Short-term space plan

• Long-range space plan

Value-Added and Alternative Enterprises Including

Bioprocessing• Research, Extension campus and field faculty• Critical for agriculture’s future in NC• Aggressive program underway -- Specialty Crops,

CEFS, Aquaculture, Viticulture, Farmstead Dairy Products, New Crops, Meat Goat, Bioprocessing (tobacco, sweet potatoes, soybeans, waste products)

• Coordination and funding

Life Sciences Enhancement – Teaching Biology

Student Enrollment

Biological Sciences 1,034Animal Science 481Zoology 432Biochemistry 332Ag & Resource Economics 316Hort Science 286Crop Science 260Microbiology 214Bio & Ag Engineering 204

Total (Grad & Ugrad) 4,476

Life Sciences Initiative

“The field of biological science is undergoing an exciting transformation. The kinds of discoveries we can make about life will have enormous impacts: from ethics to philosophy, medicine to agriculture, ecology to economics. It is beyond anything we ever dreamed possible.”

Steve Tanksley

Cornell

Life Sciences Initiative

• Develop strategic plan for life sciences

• Recruit faculty for areas of emphasis

• Provide state-of-the-art facilities

Strengthen key research areas:

Life Sciences Initiatives

• Strategic plan – Taxonomy of National Research Council

• Strengthen industrial collaborations• Promote economic development• Building stronger partnership and support

base• Seek additional funding from state and

other sources

Conclusion

• Continue with our mission• Make incremental quality improvements• Aggressively pursue initiatives:

– Inclusive community of scholars– Recruit and retain faculty– Value-added and Alternative Enterprises– Investments in Life Sciences Teaching and

Research