1. Shane C Burgess
Vice President for Veterinary Sciences & Cooperative Extension;
Dean, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences;
Director, Arizona Experiment Station
The University of Arizona

2. "This bill proposes to establish at least one college in every State upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil, where all of needful science for the practical avocations of life shall be taught, where neither the higher graces of classical studies nor that military drill our country now so greatly appreciates will be entirely ignored, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economies, and at last elevating it to that higher level where it may fearlessly invoke comparison with the most advanced standards of the world."

4. Morrill Act of 1862: "focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science and engineering and military arts ("without excluding ... classical studies"). Direct response to the industrial revolution and changing social class structure.
Hatch Act of 1887: "conduct original and other research, investigations and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural industry. . .” Direct response to the need for research-based information to increase American agricultural productivity.
Smith-Lever Act of 1914: "establish an educational outreach arm to 'extend' the results of research programs at the land grant colleges of agriculture and their affiliated state agricultural experiment stations to all citizens who might benefit from them.” Direct response to the need for a focused direct approach to get new knowledge into the marketplace to be used to improve American agricultural productivity.

5. New People, New Knowledge, New Economy
Morrill Act of 1862: Direct response to ECONOMIC revolutionS and changing social class structure.
Hatch Act of 1887: Direct response to the need for research-based information to increase American ECONOMIC productivity.
Smith-Lever Act of 1914: Direct response to the need for a focused direct approach to get new knowledge into the marketplace to be used to improve American ECONOMIC productivity.
New People, New Knowledge, New Economy
Social, Environmental & Economic Resilience

6. Median household income and educational attainment
Annual pre-tax salary
Source: US Census Bureau:

14. Robert Green, Phoenix Business Journal
“Arizona’s bioscience segment is now realizing more than $12.5 billion in annual revenue with more than 90,000 jobs. In fact, while Arizona suffered significant job losses during the recession, the biosciences added jobs.”
Robert Green, Phoenix Business Journal
2008 -
2009 Recession:
changes in jobs
10% 5% 0%
-5%
-10%
-15%
2010 AZ average wages
$70,000
$60,000
$50,000.
$40,000
$30,000
$20,000
$10,000 $0
Private sector
Bioscience

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22. “We are busy professionals who focus on the real world and its problems and have little appetite or desire for administrative obstacles”.
Peter Ellsworth, CALS