Abstract:
It is a natural tendency for all people within all Colleges within all Universities to see their particular specialty as extremely useful, or even crucial, to the needs of society. This feeling, taken along with the also natural desire of institutional self-perpetuation leads to the desire to increase, or at least maintain, the student enrollment within that College. We, in the Colleges of Agriculture, seem, as a group, to have that same desire. My argument is that by strongly competing for students who might otherwise be attracted to other Colleges within the University, we in Agriculture are performing a disservice to the very students we wish to serve. This argument is based on the very pragniatic view that agricultural students, by coming to college, are attempting to increase their potential earning power. The data do not show that agriculturalists' salaries compare favorably vis-a-vis the salaries of other specialists.
Keywords:
agricultural education, economics, earning power, salaries
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