| About Us: The
department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication
(ALEC) offers multi-disciplinary teaching, research and outreach
programs aimed at developing and supporting professionals for
leadership, teaching, and communication in the agricultural
and environmental fields.
For students, we offer personal attention and a challenging,
yet supportive learner-centered educational environment. Our
college and the ALEC department offer a small school atmosphere
amidst the abundant opportunities and resources at the thriving
University of Georgia. We offer a solid curriculum designed
to prepare undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities
for personal and professional growth and development.
Our faculty are highly rated for their teaching, research,
and outreach programs in teacher education, extension education,
leadership development, service learning, program development
and evaluation, internationalization of the curriculum, distance
education, information and technology transfer, and organizational/community
change and problem solving skills.
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Our Location: The Department of Agricultural
Leadership, Education, and Communication is located
in Four Towers on River Road on East Campus, near the
Visitor's Center, the Ramsey Student Activities Center,
the Health Center, convenient parking and bus service.
The University of Georgia is situated in lively Athens,
Georgia, about 70 miles east of Atlanta.
Our Vision: To provide a world class learning
environment that builds human capacity for food, fiber,
and natural resource systems, through the creation,
application, and dissemination of knowledge dealing
with leadership, education, and communication. We serve
a unique role in the CAES by bringing a social science
context to the physical and biological sciences encompassed
by the college.
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Our Mission: To enhance the leadership capacity for
the food, fiber, and natural resource systems through the
development and implementation of teaching, research and outreach
in the disciplines of leadership, education, and communication.
The mission
will be accomplished through efforts in four major areas as
identified as crucial to the mission of the department.
• Develop professionals who will provide leadership
for agricultural and environmental systems on local, state,
national, and international levels.
• Prepare leaders who will provide education
in and about food, fiber, and natural resource systems through
the public school systems, the Cooperative Extension Service,
and other related agencies and organizations.
• Prepare professionals in agricultural communication
(journalism, advertising, marketing, public relations, sales,
telecommunication) to provide information dissemination, marketing
in agribusiness, government agencies, educational and non-profit
centers and institutes, and media outlets.
• Create and disseminate new knowledge concerning
the educational process in agricultural leadership, education,
and communication through research and development.
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