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Tarleton State renames ag college, restructures programsTexas Tarleton State University's College of Agriculture and Human Sciences will no longer be referred to as COAHS. The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently approved changing the name to the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, which is great news for students. The name change is just one step in the process the college is undergoing to reorganize and create programs that will better serve its student and is part of a series of planned reorganization strategies designed to increase the college's relevance in today's rapidly changing disciplines associated with agricultural fields of study. "The college has worked on strategic planning and visioning activities for the last couple of years," said Don Cawthon, Ph.D., college dean. "Many of the suggestions and changes we are implementing come from faculty and a group of industry leaders who participate in our college's dean's council." The dean's council and college administrators have actively worked to address relevancy issues of the agricultural degree programs offered at Tarleton. "We found that while much of our curriculum is in line with the needs of today's society," Cawthon said, "we realized it's important for us to place our students at the forefront to solve tomorrow's challenges." In addition to the college's name change, some departments and degree programs within the college will be restructured, phased out or new options created. One of the departments undergoing change is the human sciences program. This restructuring will set the stage for strengthening their existing programs while allowing implementation of new programs in the college in areas of bioenergy, sustainability, biotechnology and environmental science, including Tarleton's plans for a doctoral program in environmental agriculture. "We have closed our human sciences department and merged those programs into our agricultural services and development department," Cawthon said. "The name of this department, as well as all of the remaining departments in the college, will change in the near future. We will be closing some of our low enrollment programs and realigning the remaining and new programs to maximize synergy and efficiency." The best part of this change is that for students enrolled or considering enrolling in COAES, the name change and future plans for the college will offer additional options and endless possibilities.
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