It is hard to believe fall is right around the corner. This has been such an incredibly busy and exciting year! While farmers are harvesting the remainder of summer crops, in just weeks, we’ll be welcoming students back on campus to begin their next phase of education.
In this issue of Land, Life & Science, we are taking an in-depth look at the Herbert College of Agriculture, a college most definitely on the rise. Herbert, along with the College of Veterinary Medicine, is seeing record enrollment in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Students are finding their niche within agriculture whether it includes farming or high-tech ways in which to support food sustainability and animal health, while less traditional programs like turfgrass, construction science, and international studies, are capturing the imaginations of students joining our college.
When they arrive, the students will be greeted with the university’s newest teaching space, the Agriculture and Natural Resources Building, which is replacing the former Ellington Plant Sciences and Hollingsworth Auditorium. This state-of-the-art facility features new classrooms, labs, a green roof, and a café serving locally sourced food, including beef from our Northeast Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Greeneville. College of Veterinary Medicine students will have new classrooms for instruction in the building, located directly across the street from the new Teaching and Learning Center that serves their college.
All of this could not be possible without the support of our university leadership and donors. I was honored to sit down with Chancellor Donde Plowman for an interview about Herbert and its importance to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the state’s 1862 land-grant university. She also highlights the alignment we enjoy with the university system, state government, Tennessee Farm Bureau, and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.
Finally, we pay tribute to Jim and Judi Herbert who have given so generously to the college. We lost Jim, for whom the college is named, this year, but thanks to this wonderful couple his legacy lives on.
Remember, every day is ag day at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture!
PS—Mark your calendars for Ag Day 2024, which will take place on Saturday, September 14. We’ll see you there!
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