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Sustaining High Cost Research & Teaching Facilities & Programs

Ken Koonce, Dean College of Agriculture

September 18, 2012

• Can both functions utilize same facilities?
• Who manages?
• Who pays?
• Managing Conflicts

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Sustaining High Cost Research & Teaching Facilities & Programs

• Is LSU unique?
• College of Agriculture - LSU A&M
• Ag Experiment Station, Cooperative

Extension – LSU Ag Center

• Two separate campuses – each with a

Chancellor

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Extension Vice Chancellor

LSU A&M Chancellor

Academic Affairs Provost Research Vice Chancellor College of Agriculture Dean

Academic Departments

LSU System President Other LSU Campuses Chancellors LSU Ag Center Chancellor

Etc.

Sustaining High Cost Research & Teaching Facilities & Programs

• Livestock, swine, cattle, horses, poultry, dairy,

research labs, equipment, transportation, etc.

• Research has traditionally carried the costs
• Conflicts between research & teaching

demands, who manages?

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Sustaining High Cost Research & Teaching Facilities & Programs

• Can animals/facilities be maintained for

teaching only?

• Extension issues – 4-H, FFA Judging

contests

• Food Processing – meats, dairy products etc.

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Sustaining High Cost Research & Teaching Facilities & Programs

• Managing costs – animals for specific

teaching only

• Special fees for student labs
• Can animal teaching programs be maintained

without research programs

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Sustaining High Cost Research & Teaching Facilities & Programs

• Pardoner with outside agencies - equine

science

• Joint teaching-research positions
• Undergraduate research

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