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Some Ideas for Recruitment in a Dairy Science Department

Department of Animal Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

ABSTRACT

While the title of this paper limits coverage of recruitment to dairy science departments, I wish to expand it at times to cover all agriculture, because our problem is not unique. It is evident in other areas or departments within agriculture.

While there is almost geometric progression in the increase in university students as a whole, few colleges of agriculture are keeping pace. Many are more than satisfied if they enroll no fewer undergraduates than they did the previous year.

With food becoming critical in the world, with hunger rampant in many areas, with so much land in far less than optimum production, with so great a processing and distribution problem, it makes one wonder why agriculture in general, and more specifically dairy science, is not the chosen field of more instead of fewer students. With so much to be done in the area of food production, processing, and distribution, why are we not attracting more outstanding students?