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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