Mission
The mission of the School of
Forest Resources is to educate professional forest and wildlife
resource managers, to enlarge the body of knowledge in renewable
forest resources, and to disseminate new ideas and technology.
Successful accomplishment of this mission will promote and enhance
management, conservation and appreciation of public and private
forests, thereby providing for continuous production and optimum
attainment of a variety of forest resources for the people of
Arkansas, the South and the Nation. These resource benefits include
the production of wood and fiber, wildlife and clean water; as well
as provision for recreation, aesthetic, and other special values.
Accordingly, the School's educational objectives are:
- To educate baccalaureate-level professionals in both forestry
and wildlife management,
with both the professional competence and diversity of background
to assume positions with
a variety of resource management organizations, such as private
industry, private consulting
firms, or public agencies; furthermore, to provide an educational
and professional basis for
successful work performance and for assuming increasing
administrative and managerial
responsibilities to the middle management level and beyond.
- To provide graduate-level educational opportunities in forest
resources.
- To provide students the opportunity to acquire the
professional and academic competence in
forestry or wildlife necessary to be nationally competitive in
graduate studies.
- To foster general education, a professional curriculum, and a
collegiate environment that
attract and retain academically strong and professionally motivated
students.
- To promote an educational environment in which a strong
orientation toward academic
performance is encouraged, and where a dedication to the profession
and its ethics is
developed.
- To promote an educational environment in which a strong
orientation toward academic
performance in encouraged, and where a dedication to the profession
and ethics is
developed.
In addition, the School's other professional
objectives are:
- To support research programs at both the basic and applied
levels that contribute to the
body of knowledge in forestry and related natural resources, and
which address the
professional, scientific, and social needs of forestry and natural
resources communities in
the State, the region, and the Nation.
- To maintain a program of extension and public service that
transmits new and established
knowledge and technology to appropriate clientele through
workshops, seminars, symposia,
continuing education programs, and publications.
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