The Environmental Horticulture Program provides our students with experiential learning opportunities within a progressive curriculum, linked with community service, to instill the awareness and skill necessary for productive futures.
This program has been increasing student enrollment, industry interest and collaboration and advisory committee involvement steadily for the past fifteen years. With over 2500 employers in Northern California, the demand for our students and alumni far outstrips our ability to produce them. Many students enter the workforce prior to completing the program. This fact sometimes leads to problems with enrollment in ‘capstone’ classes, even though annual enrollments average over 450. We currently offer several avenues of education for our students. These avenues are: Certificates of Achievement - Environmental Horticulture, Nursery Technician, Landscape/Turfgrass Technician, Crop Protection (P.C.A.) and Associate of Science Degree - Environmental Horticulture I am in the process of re-aligning the existing offerings and creating some new ones in the areas of Viticulture Production/Vineyard Management and Enology & Winery Management. The Enology Management courses were approved by the Chancellor’s Office and are ready for scheduling in future semesters. We are partnered with other community colleges working on the development of a two new Irrigation Technology Certificates-Beginning and Advanced, with the creation of additional irrigation technology, auditing, and CAD courses. The need for irrigation technicians and engineers in California has tripled in recent years due to impending retirements and decreased resources, coupled with higher demands on those resources. This situation is similar to the increased need for P.C.A.s (Pest Control Advisers) seen in recent years. We are implementing additional courses to the Crop Protection curriculum which will allow our students to test for a Certified Crop Adviser license as well. We will be submitting a new courses to CurricUNET - Pomology & Fruit Science to be offered in the spring or summer sessions in 2016. Our new orchard development will assist in having quality on-campus laboratories for this class. EH 62 Weed Science and Invasive Species is being offered for the second time this semester, Spring 2016, and another new course EH 23 Ornamental Plant Identification-Fall will be offered in Fall 2016 as we continue to grow with demand for our classes. Our transfer rate has been steadily increasing each year. We have sent students to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, U.C. Davis, C.S.U. Chico, C.S.U. Fresno, C.S.U. Humboldt, University of Florida, University of Oregon and others. We are currently conducting research projects in the nursery system in collaboration with C.S.U. Chico agriculture and Butte College Biology students and staff. Our student surveys have concluded that research is high on their list of objectives. Retention is high, considering the industry demand, as a result of strong efforts to create a sense of place and camaraderie in the courses and within the Environmental Horticulture Club, Agriculture Ambassadors and the Student Chapter-California Landscape Contractors’ Association. Hard work by our faculty and technicians to establish and maintain a beautiful and welcoming area helps to hold students here even when they have no classes. This strong sense of place and belonging is fostered by everyone in the program. The Environmental Horticulture Club is one of the most populated and active clubs on and off campus consistently participating in many community service projects year round. New full-time, tenure-track faculty member Carrie Monlux is advising the Agriculture Ambassadors and has brought new links to local agriculture industry with her ties to the Friends of Ag and other industry/community groups. We also have a 95% Nursery Technician who has primary responsibility for the greenhouses/nursery grounds and assisting in set up/preparation for laboratory sessions. Secondary responsibilities include maintaining record keeping and inventory systems, conducting research and grow out trials with other educational institutions and industry partners, researching and procuring new plant materials in the market place for best student exposure, assist club members during plant and floral sales, maintaining customer relations with local nurseries, contractors and home owners that buy our products, soliciting donations and discounts on supplies from leading horticultural manufacturers, attending industry shows and conferences to develop and maintain new and existing knowledge and relationships and assisting with off campus recruitment efforts at high schools and industry shows. She is constantly striving to expand the reach of this program and its supporters. This department’s 91% Farm Technician assists our program primarily with viticulture operations and maintenance. Secondarily, we rely on this technician for the Organic Garden maintenance and development of riparian restoration plant crops for our creek side work. The Farm Technician has been a cornerstone in our collaborative effort to develop the Restoration Ecology program. This individual and his predecessor organized many cross discipline meetings among faculty and worked very hard to bring industry partners together as an Advisory Committee and for future employment possibilities. The Environmental Horticulture program will play a key role in the development and success of this new venture as many of the skills required by the employers will come from our classes. The Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Department programs all share three very talented mechanics/fabricators who do all the maintenance on and repairs to our extensive fleet of heavy equipment, trucks, construction and management equipment, power tools and hand tools. This department is recognized for its diversity and depth of equipment and its good running condition because of those individuals. They also devote hours per week to the Welding and Automotive Departments. All five technician positions had their contracts reduced by one month two years ago, an 8.25% cut to their pay. Morale is an issue, but not as much as missing each of these talented, hardworking people for a month each during the year. We grow and maintain living organisms that need constant attention every week. We would all very much appreciate having our complete staff returned to 100% contracts. Members of our faculty and staff are actively involved in many professional associations and organizations. California Association of Agriculture Teachers, National Association of Agriculture Educators, California Association of Pest Control Advisers, California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers, California Landscape Contractors’ Association, Irrigation Association, California Certified Organic Farmers, Sierra Nevada Golf Course Superintendent’s Association, Northern California Golf Association, Future Farmers of America, Pesticide Applicators Professional Association and California Farm Bureau are some of the organizations in which we maintain service and exposure. We will continue to maintain these vital professional associations within our industry and branch out to others as time and energy allow.
Horticulture manhole
The manhole allows easier access to drainage line cleanout.
Fall 2014: EH 33 - The class average was 83 out of 100 points for the Lab Research Report assignment, with 25 students earning As and 3 students earning Fs. Students either did the assignment or didn't. Students are not getting how to incorporate their resources in the Introduction and either confirming or refuting what literature is currently saying about "the problem".
Spring 2015: EH 33 - The class average was 86 out of 100 points for the Lab Research Report assignment, with 29 students earning As and 6 students earning Fs. Increased attention was given to literature research methods, i.e., how to locate refereed publications and work done by extension professors. Students commented they liked learning how to use Google Scholar and land grant university extension websites. I feel like my students made progress in this area and made connections with current industry problems and developing potential solutions.
Spring 2015: EH 24 (Ornamental Plant Identification) The completion/success rate in this difficult class gets better each year. We have had support from Supplemental Instruction for a couple years now. This additional help, on the students level, has proven its worth. I was concerned after we deleted the EH 124 section which allowed students to use the plant lists for a spelling assistance crutch. This year, we are adding more instruction based on botanical and physiological structures of the individual plants to aid in their identification.
Fall 2015: EH 20 (Introduction to Environmental Horticulture) Plant propagation by sexual and asexual methods- Students are generally excited to grow many plants and put quality effort into it. Overall success is good. Next year, I want to spend more purposeful time on labeling and progress examination to insure better accountability of individual students and not miss any opportunities for teachable moments.
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2013-2014 Performance |
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Five Year Goal |
Fall 2014 Performance |
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Course Success |
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- Overall |
PDR |
71.1% |
70% |
73% |
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- Transfer/GE |
PDR |
71.5% |
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73% |
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- CTE |
PDR |
75% |
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77% |
73.5% |
65% |
75% |
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- Basic Skills |
PDR |
51.7% |
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55% |
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- Distance Ed (all) |
PDR |
62.5% |
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64% |
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Persistence (Focused). Note: The Persistence (Focused) that is included in the PDR is a different indicator than the three-primary term persistence indicator, from the state Student Success Scorecard, that is used to measure institutional persistence. The Focused Persistence indicator measures the percentage of students that took a second course in a discipline within one year. There is no relationship between the college and program standards in this area. |
PDR |
72.6% (Three-Term) Scorecard |
67% (Three-Term) Scorecard |
75% (Three-Term) Scorecard |
42.0% |
40% |
45% |
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Degrees |
PDR |
1,455 |
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1,600 |
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15 |
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Certificates |
PDR |
366 |
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475 |
CA: 7 |
CA: 7 |
CA: 15 |
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Developmental Strand Completion |
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- English |
State |
42% |
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45% |
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- Math |
State |
30.7% |
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33% |
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- ESL |
State |
25% |
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28% |
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Licensure Pass Rates |
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- Registered Nursing |
SC |
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- Respiratory Therapy |
SC |
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- Paramedic |
SC |
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- Cosmetology |
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- Welding |
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Job Placement Rates |
PIV |
100% |
45% |
60% |
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We have continued to raise the bar, expecting more from our students and making them accountable for their education from year to year. We make them aware of our responsibilty to our industry partners, who employ them, to ready them for that opportunity. Completion of projects, classes, certificates and degrees is emphasized every step of the way. Scholarship is placed at the top of our program and students are taught how that is tied directly to internships, scholarship awards and transfers to universities.
The EH Department supports the college in meeting its Strategic Direction and Priorities in the following ways:
Everything possible is done to allow for student, faculty and staff success (Initiative 2). Everyone is encouraged to be involved in educational events, professional trade shows and seminars, accruing continuing education units and maintaining professional licenses and certificates. We share our own ongoing education and how that is necessary to maintain currency and credibility within our diversified areas of expertise.
Dr. Carrie Monlux is an expert at researching and interpreting data (Initiative 3). We use industry job trends, regional employment zones, salary and wage data and face to face meetings with our industry partners and state-wide faculty to constantly update our information used for improving our curriculum and the opportunities for our students.
We do very well at maximizing our resources in support of student learning (Initiative 4). Even though our facilities are over forty years old and in need of upgrades and repairs, our students get a satisfactory experience that prepares them for jobs in industry. We work hard at procuring donations of potting mixes, fertilizers, farming equipment and anything else that will stretch our static budget. Volunteer students, staff and faculty have worked many hours doing construction and repairs in the Horticulture Unit and on the farm. Our intent is to create experiential learning and teachable moments whenever possible.
When it comes to modeling sustainability (Initiative 5) with true 'boots on the ground' action, I don't think that any other program on this campus does a better job than we do, both in the classroom and in our laboratory exercises. If we had the funding for state of the art water management equipment, we could be even better.
We certainly foster a culture of inclusiveness (Initiative 6). When you view the diversity of our student population and see how everyone is strongly encouraged and welcomed to become part of the Butte College Environmental Horticulture family, it is easy to understand how our alumni testify that the experiences here are or were some of the best times in their lives. Through the many activities and experiences of participating in our Agriculture Leadership classes, the Environmental Horticulture Club, the Agriculture Ambassadors. the Friends of the Refuge, the potlucks and barbeques and the field trips, our students gain insight and create friends for life!
Most of the latest Program Review recommendations have been implemented. We are continuing to work on adding more irrigation technology classes and certificates as this area of industry is in strong need of trained technicians. Currently, we are partners with California Agricultural Irrigation Association, California Landscape Contractor's Association, Irrigation Association, California Farm Bureau, several irrigation equipment manufacturers, educators throughout California, and many local industry partners to train students to fill the demand for technicians.
We have moved forward with the Viticulture/Enology Program, at least the parts of it that are in our control. At our Advisory Committee meeting last fall, there was unanimous support to complete that program as originally envisioned. If cooperation is given, we can have that entire program, complete with three certificates, in place by this fall.
The first goal of the EH Department will be to focus its efforts on encouraging more students to complete and apply for certificates prior to going back to work or transferring to four year institutions.
The second goal is to continue our work and completion of the irrigation technician certificate program and ready our students to pass internationally recognized exams for the Irrigation Association. We are working with their directors to gain approval to administer their exams here at our Regional Testing Center.
The third goal is to complete the Viticulture/Enology Program, offer all of the already approved courses and begin issuing the new certificates along with selling our Butte College wines.
In addition, the EH Department has identified areas on which to focus its efforts in the areas of:
Strategy 1 - Industry Collaboration and Advisory
Collaborating with faculty, and community leaders and industry partners are crucial to the success of the program.
Our program is unique in its wide ranging inclusive processes. We work well with students, staff, Associate Faculty, Advisory Committee members, industry partners, local garden clubs, and professional associations to monitor our courses for adaption to new trends and employer needs.
Strategy 2 - Faculty Advising
Instructors need to be available and accessible for faculty advising.
We spend many, many hours in faculty advisement with most of the students in this program, each semester. We provide direction for success with their classes and in their lives. We work with them to find their niche in industry and then refer them to employers in the industry network.Many students have decided, after being here initially for a certificate, to keep going to school for an Associate’s Degree and transferring to four year schools as well.
Sometimes we feel like marriage and family counselors because of all the personal problems that we’ve helped students get through in order to stay in school. The Environmental Horticulture Club assists many of these students to feel like they belong somewhere. The fellowship, the networking, the potlucks and barbeques, and the safety of an open-door policy is welcoming and serves to keep our students in school longer, which we believe leads to higher rates of completion of their academic and career goals.
Many of these students are re-entry and have little self-confidence. We work very hard to instill confidence and show them that they are smart and they can be successful. This effort results in longer retention in this program and these students take many other classes on campus as a result.
Carrie Monlux started using Datatel Colleague PSR student advising program and completed over 100 different student adivising sessions this past year. We have seen a huge improvement of student retention and movement through education plans as students are made aware of degree and certificate requirements and receiving personal attention during the class registration process. We have unfortunately uncovered some advising mistakes given by the College Counseling Department but feel we have made great strides improving dialog and continuity to our students to bridge their course selections. Perhaps we need to consider mandatory advising prior to class registration and see what, if any, additional improvements may occur with our majors (and those who will be).
Strategy 3 - Equipment and Lab Upgrades
Update and expand equipment, lab supplies, and student learning experiences in the EH Department.
Agriculture and horticulture are applied sciences and require scientific equipment that is current and meets the needs of industry standards (e.g., measuring vessels, microscopes, and grafting tools). Our requests for a new greenhouse, heaters, benches, and irrigation systems come from the fact that our facilities are approximately 40 years old and need to be replaced. While we do have functional greenhouses currently in use, they are not running at an efficient level and do need to have improvements made to keep them running. They provide an income stream to support our program and help us be more self-sufficient.
We also request additional funding to expand our student assistant program with workstudy or other financial assistance. We do require the use of student help to run our programs, and it is an extremely valuable learning experince for our students to receive hands-on management experiences.
Our greenhouses are all over forty years old or are hand-me-downs that were well used when donated to us. A new polycarbonate greenhouse would be more energy efficient and meet the standards of the modern nursery industry for educating our students.
Several of our equipment storage buildings are in bad need of new roofing. They leak when it rains which exposes tens of thousands of dollars worth of valuable equipment and tools to damage or degradation. We need roofing materials to make the necessary repairs.
Our plant sales carts and most of the nursery/greenhouse benches are so old they are falling apart and need to be replaced for continued production values to be sustained and to allow for a better educational experience. We have replaced some, but need to do more.
Strategy 4 - Field Lab. Accessibility and Use
Provide for accessibility to all students in the EH Department.
Our request for the Kawasaki Mule vehicle and portable toilet/sink station comes from the need to support our students who are conducting lab activities throughout the campus. There are no restroom facilities on the outskirts of the campus core where many of our field laboratories are, so students have to be shuttled back to use toilet facilities, having our own restroom station would eliminate downtime during on-the-farm labs.
In the event we have students with physical disabilities, we need to have a farm vehicle to transport these students around the farm, to the vineyard, and other remote or hard-to-access points on campus. We believe in providing a superior lab experience for all students, no matter the disability or location or terrain. The aquisition of our new Yamaha Viking VI ATV will assist transportation to and from our remote labs immensely.
We could still use a portable, trailered field toilet and sink, especially at the vineyards to maximize comfort and site use hours.
Strategy 5 - Mobilization for Travel
Additional van (12 passenger) and newer pickup for department
Due to the diversity of subject matter in our local agriculture community and industry and the need for our students to see it first hand, we have the need for an additional passenger van for field trips and travel. Currently, we use the department's 15 passenger van, instructor's personal vehicles and student vehicles to accomodate travel. Another van would eliminate most of that need for many vehicles. The department truck used for hauling supplies and material runs to town is unreliable, so our technicians and instructors use personal vehicles to make supply runs.
Strategy 6 - Additional Full Time Faculty & Staff Salaries
An additional full time faculty member is needed. The reinstatement of Ag Staff salaries and benefits to fulltime is needed.
The course load in this program continues to grow as our industry and students demand them. In addition to increasing sections of existing courses, we are adding new courses every year. This program struggles to aquire and hold Associate Faculty as industry leaders are busy people with little time to spare on teaching for us. The limitations on load percentages insures that our associates are always looking for better incomes, so we loose them regularly and have to loook for others. Our current full time faculty are always in double overloads or worse.
Along with this increased load for faculty we need our Ag Staff's positions reinstated to fulltime for salary and benefits. Agriculture doesn't stop on weekends or after hours, so limiting the staff affects student and faculty opportunity and safety when labs aren't maintained or equipment isn't serviced in a timely manner.
Strategy 7 - Facility Support by Student Workers
Our nursery and greenhouse system, along with our large and diversified field crops laboratories need consistent management and labor. Faculty and classified staff can take care of the management, but need additional labor to accomplish these needs. Student workesr need to be paid to drive out here and devote their time for these needs. We need some student assistant money for that purpose.
The duties and tasks that need to be performed on a daily and weekly basis throughout our system of living labratories can not be ignored during weekends and holidays. Somebody needs to take care of them. We need more student assistant money to hire those individuals.
Strategy 8 - Completion of Creek Crossings and Agricultural Equipment Yard
The creek crossings on the three branches of Clear Creek have been degraded to almost nothing as a result of over forty years of equipment crossings and nature's weather events. New crosssings are needed.
The re-grading and rain water run-off rechanneling of surface water in the Ag, Equipment yard is necessary and will be accompanied by the completetion of Phase II BWELL project.
These creek crossings are almost gone and need to be replaced. The ability to cross these creeks on a regular basis for our continued farm operations and the lab. work with the Heavy Equipment and Mechanized Agriculture programs is vital. This work can be completed in-house by faculty and students, if allowed and for a reduced cost as well.
The sensitive nature of the creeks is not being served by the continued delay of this construction.
We have lost four of the five years allowed on a permit that we paid for already to complete the work on the Ag.Equipment yard. This work needs to be budgeted so that we can get this done to avoid problems with the Army Corp of Engineers. This work can be done in-house as well.
The latest is that these projects are supposed to be financed, including funds to pay student workers, for construction this year.
EH 38 (Greenhouse Production) would benefit from the use of a computer lab during the crop scheduling exercise. This would enable all students to be on Excel at the same time for more efficient use of instruction.
As our Agriculture Department programs expand, we have experienced some minor difficulties finding classrooms to teach in.
We do make some money with the plant sales from the nursery operations. This will increase as the expansion area comes on line. The completed expansion will double our effective production values. This process has been ongoing for five years as I have had to complete this with volunteer labor, donated materials and meager funds as they became available. Any monies made from the income account go right back out to support materials, equipment and student assistant labor to keep this place afloat.
The District budget allocated from year to year has never met the needs of this program. We have used Perkins funds, along with the District funds to get us through about 3/5ths of each year. We have calculated the enology classes and wine sales could provide additional revenue to our program, making it a self-sustaining program and have changed from organic to sustainable practices in the vineyard to increase yield, thereby increasing revenue.
A couple years ago, one of my students asked his landscape maintenace clients to donate to a vineyard teactor fund and I started a Foundation account with those monies, however not enough money was donated to buy a tractor, so it sits there.
Our industry partners would like to host a fund raiser for the wine making program, which we feel would reap great benefits, however this program has not come to fruition yet.
Our staff continues to pursue grant opportunities, but full time faculty are in double overloads and have many other time consuming duties which make grant writing very stressful.
We were succesful at attaining an industry donation of pottting mixes last year which got us through almost a whole season of nursery operations. This was very much appreciated, but can not be relied on from year to year. It was a one time bonus.
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
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| 1 | EH | Personnel | $0.00 | $25,000.00 | ||
| Restoring all staff members in the Agriculture Department to 100% funded positions. Remove any lingering Perkins support from their salary funding. | The five classified staff that support all of the agriculture programs and labs, along with many cross-campus duties, have not been restored to full salaries since the cuts many years ago. This has detrimental impacts to morale as well as unavailability of those staff certain hours per week as they don't get paid to be here all week. Many times, we need their help and expertise when they are not here. This leads to frustration of faculty and loss of student learning and success in many instances. |
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| 2 | EH | Facilities | $21,500.00 | $0.00 | ||
| roofing materials | The roofing on the Historic/Equipment Building is leaking badly. Thousands of dollars worth of equipment vital to our program is stored within and is at risk of damages. |
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| 3 | EH | Personnel | $0.00 | $12,000.00 | ||
| Increase number of paid work experience students | Farm and EH lab activities require the support of students for setup, in addition to farm, shop, and EH staff. There isn't enough time to go around to assist with all of the purchasing, pickup, and setup of labs, so increasing our paid student work force would not only assist our staff, but would provide valuable work experience opportunities for our ag majors. |
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| 4 | EH | Equipment | $11,105.00 | $0.00 | ||
| 100 Gallon PakBlast Spray Rig, complete with vineyard scoops, trellis fan housing, wheel support kit and extra nozzles | The 50 gallon spray rig was old and well used when we acquired it twelve years ago. It is now too small for ten acres of vineyards and our orchards as well. It requires constant maintenance because of its advanced age and use. |
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| 5 | EH | Facilities | $3,105.00 | $0.00 | ||
| New glazing for Gothic Greenhouse-Lexan Thermoclear 8mm twinwall panels and rolls. Attachment systems form same. | The glazing on this house has degraded and needs to be replaced in order for it to be used in a sustainable manner. |
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| 6 | EH | Equipment | $7,844.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Portable Spray Tank with switched pumping system and wireless console | Our existing spray equipment is very old and unreliable. Many hours of lab teaching are lost each year trying to get this antiquated equipment to operate. Students are disappointed and don't get the intended experiences from the field labs. Efficiency for our field operations along with cutting edge technology exposure to our students is critical. |
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| 7 | EH | Operating Expenses | $24,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Professional Development: Conference and industry meeting participation | All of our students benefit when our staff and faculty participate in current industry meetings, inservices, and conferences. Three of our staff hold required applicator's licenses which must be renewed every two years, and these staff must attend mandatory training to keep up these licenses. All three of our faculty hold either PCA and CCA licenses which also must be renewed every two years. It would be to the benefit of the department and college as a whole to have faculty participate in data analysis training and software purchase, have the data tools, and expertise to use these tools, to conduct meaningful program reviews, unit planning, and implement Student Learning Outcomes in ag science. Ag Department staff need to attend ag industry conferences, meetings, and inservices to maintain currency in their disciplines, classrooms, and labs. With the ever-changing needs and technology of industry, it's critical to the success of our students that all staff are current in their disciplines. Conferences and meeting supplies include CATA ($6000), CAPCA and DPR ($3800), JMP ($5700), Tableau ($5200), and SoftChalk ($3300). |
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| 8 | EH | Facilities | $88,850.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Agra-Tech Polycarbonate Greenhouse | Need more energy efficient greenhouse to reduce heating and cooling costs while improving plant growing environment. |
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| 9 | EH | Equipment | $64,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Vehicles (truck and van) | The need for vehicles come from the fact that ag faculty need to use the Ag van during the week for lab trips, and the van is regularly in use by three ag faculty. Three of the six full-time faculty have a commercial driver's license for driving the current 15-passenger van, so it would be appropriate to request funding for a 12-passenger van (specifically a 2016 Ford Transit 12 person van $34,000, as per quote from facilities) and a new pickup truck so all of the faculty can use a van or truck for field trips instead of depending on the pool of vans in Facilities, and this would reduce the congestion placed on the one van currently in place. |
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| 10 | EH | Equipment | $0.00 | $1,900.00 | ||
| Portable/trailered toilet and sanitation station | Due to the lack of restroom facilities at the vineyard, we need a portable toilet and sink station for student use during weekly labs. Several classes use the vineyard throughout the year. |
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| 11 | EH | Equipment | $26,363.00 | $0.00 | ||
| State-of-the-art irrigation management equipment for the farm operations | Since sustainability is so important to us and our future water resources are in question, it makes sense to be able to train our irrigation technicians on the newest water management equipment. It also fits in nicely to curriculum upgrades and demand for experienced water managers for industry. |
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| 12 | EH | Equipment | $33,800.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Vineyard Gauge Tractor | We currently use only old field tractors for the vineyard maintenance operations. They are sometimes unreliable and are never ideal as they were not designed for this use. |
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| 13 | EH | Facilities | $26,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Post-harvest physiology lab | Students need a clean lab space for EH and AGS labs where they can dissect fruits, vegetables, livestock carcasses and anatomical tract processing in an area with modern tables, refrigeration storage, freezer storage, tool and implement storage. This clean space lab also requires proper lighting and sink for proper cleanup and disposal. A commercial dishwasher would allow for complete sterilization of all tools and equipment in between uses. |
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