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The Role of the Department, Graduate Committee and Advisor¹

University of Florida, Gainesville 32611

Abstract

Many of us have worked with foreign graduate students in Animal Science either in the U.S. or abroad. As you reflect upon these experiences you recall certain pertinent experiences, pleasant and unpleasant. As an academic advisor, you can probably say that some of your best graduate students were from other countries. All of us are interested in doing a better job than we are now doing. Consequently, it is a challenge to enhance the value of graduate degrees in Animal Science for foreign students.

It was my good fortune to have helped initiate the first graduate program in Animal Science in Brazil in 1962. After returning to the Purdue University campus in 1965, I was a member of the departmental graduate committee for 4 years and chairman of that committee for 2 years.

From January 1, 1970, to December 31, 1975, 58 of the 117 graduate degrees granted in Animal Science at the University of Florida were to foreign students.

¹ Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, August 16 to 18, 1976, College Station, Texas at the symposium entitled "Enhancing the Value of Graduate Degrees in Animal Science for Foreign Students."