1. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Who we are and what we do?

2. 5 Grand Challenges
Improving Our Health - From recreation and weight control to designing fruits and vegetables with more phytonutrients for cancer prevention to using the latest biotechnology advancements to search for new drugs, the College is dedicated to improving health.
Feeding Our World - Growing populations, decreasing natural resources, and increasing environmental challenges present us with opportunities to find the most efficient and healthful ways to provide food for all, both domestically and globally.
Growing Our Economy - Producing more, selling more, adding value, and increasing the safety and security of what we trade are all ways the College is growing our economy.
Protecting Our Environment - The College is committed to environmental sustainability and restoring the health of our ecosystems.
Enriching Our Youth - We prepare students to be leaders in solving the world’s problems.

3. Academic Stats Established in 1911 7733 Students Degree Programs
3rd largest student population
6417 Undergrad
1316 Graduate
Degree Programs
31 undergrad majors
8 undergrad certs
9 grad certs
37 Master’s
24 Doctoral
10 Online Grad

4. 14 Departments Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communications
Animal Science
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Ecosystem Science and Management
Entomology
Horticultural Sciences
Nutrition & Food Science
Plant Pathology & Microbiology
Poultry Science
Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences
Soil and Crop Sciences
Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences

5. Buildings 75 buildings on campus or in the Bryan/College Station area.
Most buildings are on West Campus
AGLS is the new Headquarters completed in 2011
Addition Completed 2017

6. The Gardens
The latest edition to the AgriLife Complex are The Leach Teaching Gardens. Currently still under construction.

7. IT Reporting Structure
Chief Information Officer
College CISA
TAMU IT Employee paid by College
College Departments
AgriLife CISO
Agencies
College IT managers report to department head most of the time
Some College IT managers are also building managers/proctors and business coordinators

8. Who we Work with? TAMU IT Run most VM’s Email ADS/AGLS
OAL/Provost IT provide services such as student printing, OAL workstations, IMS classrooms, CEPM
Engineering, TVMDL, Forestry, and more
AgriLife provides WordPress, ALP and SOPHOS

9. Devices & Staff More than 5000 total devices 4900 end-user devices
160 servers (virtual and physical)
~2000 Staff
21 full time IT personnel and many student workers

10. Biggest Needs/Issues Mac Management Tool Central Backup Solution
File Storage
Budget

11. Future Vision Collaboration within AgriLife at all levels
Liaison for TAMU IT as we continue to use more of their shared services
More automation across IT
Partner with IT units outside AgriLife