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College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Let’s Talk Rolando A. Flores

Dean

The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences is an engine for economic and community development in New Mexico, improving the lives of New Mexicans through academic, research, and extension programs.

Topics

o Overview of ACES o Connections o General Obligation Bond o Moving forward

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Overview of the ACES College

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• Departmental SWOT analysis and Department Heads retreats with follow-up action items

• Cooperative Extension – county level

• Advisory Team for the future of Agricultural Research

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Science Centers

Met with individual advisory boards

An advisory team has been appointed • Critical role in helping ACES • Action-oriented group • Develop recommendations • Part of the larger ACES/NMSU

initiative

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Advisory Team

• Bruce Davis, rancher – Clayton • Roland Sanchez, rancher and farmer – Belen • Dino Cervantes, chile processor – LC • Blake Curtis, seed producer – Clovis • Dina Chacon-Reitzel, NM Beef Council • Craig Ogden, NM Farm Bureau

and 11 ACES faculty and staff

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New Leadership Natalie Goldberg

Interim Associate Dean and Director Agricultural Experiment Station

Rolston St Hilaire Interim DH Extension Plant Sciences DH Plant and Environmental Sciences

Shanna Ivey Interim DH Animal and Range Sci.

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Andres Cibils Interim Associate DH Animal and Range Sci.

Priscilla Bloomquist Interim DH Family and Consumer Sci. and Ext. Family and Consumer Sci.

Claudia Trueblood ACES Operations Officer

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Distance Learning

The current and proposed DE programs in ACES include:

• AXED graduate program • FCS undergraduate program - hybrid • Proposed FWCE undergraduate • Proposed HRTM graduate program

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Connections

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• Eastern New Mexico ▻ Listening session

• Northern New Mexico ▻ Listening session ▻ 8-day visit / Pueblos

• Ruidoso ▻ Dairy Producers and Cattle Growers

• Catron County ▻ Ranch Day

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▻ 3-day visit

• Uruguay

• Mexico ▻ Chihuahua City and Delicias ▻ San Luis Potosi

• Costa Rica

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General Obligation Bond

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How will NMSU use the Bond funds?

Agricultural Facilities

• Feed Milling and Processing

• Biomedical Research • Food Science Learning and

Safety

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Who will benefit most from the GO Bond ?

Moving Forward

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