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The Department of Animal and Food Sciences will be known for effectively integrating research and teaching in the disciplines of food and animal sciences. The department's undergraduate students receive a multidisciplinary-based experience that combines hands-on and virtual learning environments and proves a solid science background. The undergraduate curriculum prepares students for a variety of options upon graduation including veterinary school and other graduate programs, research and immediate job opportunities.
Under the goal of Excellence in Education, the department has listed that it will attain national and international recognition in discovery based learning in undergraduate and graduate education.
Objective 2.5 is to increase innovative uses of technology to enhance learning and access to education. Current strategies are listed as providing mentoring and support for faculty and extension professionals for course initiatives.
The goals created for this portfolio resonate with both the college and the department and are centered around the Functional Anatomy Laboratory and the pre-veterinary major. The pre-veterinary curricula is experiencing the same challenges that occur at the veterinary level with regards to the expansion in class size, expensive costs to maintain and update laboratories, and increase in the knowledge base and it's availability (Kogan, et.al.,2014). In general I am looking to provide an integration of technologies into the classroom and laboratory space allowing for an increase in communication and shared knowledge between both classmates and professors. With all of the new growth in both facilities and technology, it is important we remain at the forefront as well.
Accrediting agency: MSCHE
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education to conduct accreditation and pre-accreditation (Candidacy status) activities for institutions of higher education in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, including distance education and correspondence education programs offered at those institutions.
MSCHE is also recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) to accredit degree-granting institutions which offer one or more post-secondary educational programs of at least one academic year in length in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other geographic areas in which the Commission conducts accrediting activities.
Much of the previous and successful accreditation, when referring to technology, centered around UD’s own Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory (ISE lab), Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), as well as the new Science and Technology Campus (STAR).
The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) has the mission to facilitate a biotechnology network of people and facilities to enhance existing academic and private-sector research, catalyze unique cross-disciplinary research and education initiatives, and to foster the entrepreneurship that creates high-quality jobs.
The University of Delaware's Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Laboratory (ISE Lab) is a hub of teaching and research on campus. The 194,000-square-foot facility brings together students and faculty from various disciplines to teach, learn and conduct research in a collaborative environment. Research provides content for the curriculum and students learn through the exploration of real-world problems. Completed in 2013, ISE Lab engages students and stimulates excitement about science and engineering.
The University's most recent acquisition is a 272-acre property that was formerly a Chrylser auto assembly plant. The Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) campus is still being developed and currently houses the University's updated and expanded Health Sciences Complex.
Veterinary Admissions: AAVMC
The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges clearly lays out all prerequisites for all students interested in studying veterinary medicine. Below is a summary of all course prerequisites for all AVVMC member institutions for the 2014 matriculation. You will notice Anatomy is NOT a prerequisite to enter veterinary school. Though we have an actual pre-veterinary program here at UD, as many colleges and universities do, it is not mandatory that a student come from such a program. We are able to use this to our advantage to better prepare our students for the rigors of the veterinary level anatomy courses. Please feel free to further explore the AAVMC website in regards to our practices and requirements for our students. Their website is http://www.aavmc.org/default.aspx, or you can click on their logo and it will link you directly to their webpage.
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