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

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

Comparison of Research Quality and Productivity - 2002
# FTE Scientists Total Funds (millions) Total Funds/FTE
California 490.2
California
Florida 323.5
Texas A&M
$253,910
$134,769
Texas A&M 260.1
Florida $123,710
Penn State 251.5
Wisconsin $104,489
NC State 188.7
Iowa State $ 85,489
Minnesota 180.3
NC State $ 81,051
Iowa State 178.0
Minnesota $ 74,874
Wisconsin 172.1
Illinois $ 61,681
Illinois 151.3
Ohio State $ 54,559
Ohio State 122.9
Penn State $ 52,466
Wisconsin $607,141
Texas A&M $518,143
California $517,972
Iowa State $480,275
Ohio State $443,930
NC State $429,523
Minnesota $415,275
Illinois $407,673
Florida $382,411
Penn State $208,612

Cooperative Extension
2002-2003
Professional FTE Clientele Contacts Clientele Contacts/FTE
Texas A&M
Ohio State
903 Texas A&M 16,036,968 Florida 18,959
627.5
Ohio State 11,619,082 Ohio State 18,516
NC State 598
Michigan State 544
Florida
NC State
7,716,440
7,183,043
Texas A&M
NC State
17,760
12,012
Wisconsin
Iowa State
Florida
Minnesota
Penn State
Illinois
490
443
407
368
330
Michigan State 2,772,936 Illinois
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa State
Penn State
329.83 Minnesota
2,571,078
1,148,632
760,000
750,000
309,000
Michigan State 5,097
Wisconsin
Penn State
Iowa State
Minnesota
7,795
2,344
2,273
1,716
840

Cooperative Extension
County Funding
2002-2003
# Volunteers # Hours Volunteered
Florida $30,026,003 NC State 82,026 Florida 1,530,502
Texas A&M $24,737,886 Texas A&M 77,520 Ohio State 1,265,773
NC State
Iowa State
$21,561,880
$20,039,371
Florida
Ohio State
66,782
50,010
Minnesota 1,167,311
Michigan State 931,363
Wisconsin
Ohio State
$20,013,202 Illinois 46,062 NC State 808,837
$18,600,000 Minnesota 37,068 Texas A&M 353,643
Michigan State $16,633,494 Michigan State 28,352 Illinois
Minnesota $16,293,106 Wisconsin 27,221 Wisconsin
140,551
112,772
Illinois
Penn State
$13,742,567 Penn State 15,000 Iowa State
$10,400,000 Iowa State 13,300 Penn State
80,123
NR

FY03-04 Budget Information
(Based on Expenditures -- Millions)
Source of Funds
Federal
State
County
C/G
Acad
23.40
0.50
County C/G
Overhead Rec.
Sales/Ser.
0.80
Found.
2.90
Misc. Gifts 0.20
Totals 27.80
NCARS
6.55
44.98
37.43
1.67
1.98
4.40
2.85
99.86
NCCES
14.26
35.13
22.31
9.22
7.45
0.30
6.36
2.21
0.33
97.57
Total
20.81
103.51
22.31
47.15
7.45
1.97
9.14
9.51
3.38
225.23

Contracts & Grants – 1998-2004
$70,000,000
$60,000,000
$50,000,000
$40,000,000
$30,000,000
$20,000,000
$10,000,000
$0
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

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
Millions of
Dollars
25
20
15
10
5
0
50
45
40
35
30
20.5
27.6 27
41.6
35
45.8
43
40.9
Goal
2001
Actual
2001
Goal
2002
Actual
2002
Goal
2003
Actual
2003
Goal
2004
Actual
2004

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

Excellent Personnel
• Staff
– Human Resources
– Finance and Business
– Information Technology
– Technical Assistance
– Advancement
– Career Services
– Student Services
• Volunteers and Partners
990

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

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
% Operating and Total Budget
97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04
NCARS % 19.7
21.5
20.3
17.9
15.6
15.9
15.6
Total (M) 49.9
52.7
52.8
53.6
52.5
51.2
51.5
NCCES % 15.5
16.3
12.8
11.9
10.1
13.2
14.9
Total (M) 48.9
51.4
50.7
51.1
47.3
46.3
48.3

Budget
Goal:Increase operating support
• Hold positions vacant or reduce positions
• Increase federal funding (special appropriations)
• Use grant or private funds (direct or indirect)

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
(8.4M) (4,476)
72.1
81.4
White
Minorities 27.9
Females 51.0
18.6
55.3
Faculty (TT)
(419)
91.9
8.1
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
Less State of NC
Less State Land Fund
Less Expenses
Total
$14,500,000
4,000,000
725,000
230,000
$ 9,545,000

Property To Be Acquired
516 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
Total (Grad & Ugrad)
Biological Sciences
Animal Science
Zoology
Biochemistry
Ag & Resource Economics
Hort Science
Crop Science
Microbiology
Bio & Ag Engineering
4,476
1,034
481
432
332
316
286
260
214
204

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
Strengthen key research areas:
• Develop strategic plan for life sciences
• Recruit faculty for areas of emphasis
• Provide state-of-the-art facilities

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