Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences
West Texas A&M University, a Member of The Texas A&M University System, invites applications for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences. The position is a twelve-month, tenured position that reports to the Dean of the Paul Engler College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences. WTAMU is a four-year academic institution of 9,000 students serving the Panhandle of Texas and portions of four adjacent states. This geographic region is noted for its agricultural production and related businesses. The Department offers baccalaureate degrees in Agribusiness; Agricultural Business and Economics; Agriculture, Agriculture Education; Agricultural Communication, Animal Science; Equine Industry and Business; and Plant, Soil, and Environmental Science. Master of Science (M.S.) degrees are offered in Animal Science; Plant, Soil, and Environmental Science, and Agriculture with emphases options in Agriculture Education, Agricultural Media and Communication, and Agricultural Business and Economics; as well as an online Masters of Agriculture (M.Ag.). Additionally, a Ph.D. program is offered in Systems Agriculture. There are 1,200 students enrolled in the Department including 100 graduate students. The Department has a dynamic team of 30 full-time tenure-track faculty, four full-time clinical faculty, six full-time instructors, as well as research specialists and facility managers. Furthermore, the Department encompasses facilities, which support the academic and research mission including animal units, laboratories, greenhouses, and farms, as well as a new state-of-the-art beef cattle feedlot currently under construction with a planned capacity of approximately 4,400 head.
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Assistant Professor of Agricultural Business/Economics
West Texas A&M University, a member of The Texas A&M University System, invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Agricultural Business and Economics. This is a nine-month, tenure track position that reports to the Head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences. WTAMU is located in the Texas Panhandle, one of the largest cattle feeding areas in the world (6 million head annually), and one of the most prolific crop-producing areas in the world, (14 million acres of cultivated cropland), both of which are multi-billion dollars industries. The highest total value crops in the region are wheat, corn, ensilage, hay, sorghum and cotton. The position will focus on the various aspects of agricultural economics including but not limited to management, marketing, finance, policy, trade, and retail sales and will provide support to the current academic track to increase the enrollment at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. WTAMU is a four-year academic institution with more than 9,000 students including more than 1,150 students in the department granting Bachelor, Master of Science, Master of Agriculture, and Doctoral degrees. The department offers the following degrees related to the discipline: B.S. degree in Agribusiness, B.S. degree in Agricultural Business and Economics, M.S. in Agriculture with an emphasis in Agricultural Business and Economics, M.Ag, and a Ph.D. in Systems Agriculture.
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