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Advisory/oversight councils: An alternative approach to farmer/citizen participation in agenda setting at land-grant universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

G. W. Stevenson  and
Richard M. Klemme
G. W. Stevenson
Affiliation:
Assistant Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.
Richard M. Klemme
Affiliation:
Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.
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Abstract

Reviews of historical and organizational literature provide the backdrop for a general discussion of citizen input into land-grant universities and for a specific case study: the Citizens Advisory/Oversight Council of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This strong citizens' council, established in 1989, took its form in response to institutionally structured fears among university personnel, on one hand, and farmers and citizen groups on the other. Each group's recognition that the other's concerns were legitimate led to an acceptable resolution. We describe the principal characteristics of the resulting successful CIAS Council that is composed of farmers and representatives of the state's environmental community. Such councils facilitate new approaches to integrating the craft and science of farming, and for linking the production side of agricultural systems with policy issues.

Keywords

academic freedomresearch prioritiesland-grant systemthe Progressive Erathe “Wisconsin Idea”
Type
Selected Papers from Conference on “Innovative Policies for Agricultural Research,” Boston, MA, November 21–22, 1991
Information
American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 111 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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