Abstract 

The purpose of the study was to provide a qualitative look at the phenomenon marked by a student developed proposal to relocate the agriscience education program at Auburn University from the college of education to the college of agriculture. Agricultural Education has a long-standing relationship as a program within the College of Education (COE) at Auburn University. In fact, Agricultural Education was the original education program that led to formation of the COE. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with representatives from different stakeholder groups to better understand this unique case. Four major themes emerged from the qualitative interviews. The findings of this study are consistent with those found by Knebel (1977) nearly forty years ago. These students did identify closely with other students and their career aspirations from the college of agriculture. Many of them made the impression that they were agriculturalists who were interested in educating young people concerning this broad subject area. Not one participant indicated that they were a teacher whose subject happened to be agriculture.