Our Vision

To be the preeminent college for research, teaching, and extension of agriculture and the life sciences, developing leaders to address the global challenges of the 21st century.

Our Mission

As a college uniquely situated in a land grant, Ivy League university, we are committed to research, teaching and extension that makes an important difference in the lives of our stakeholders in New York State, the nation and the world by:

• Providing a world-class education for our students
• Encouraging lifelong learning through extension education
• Advancing a productive and sustainable agriculture
• Understanding the unity and the diversity of life through discovery in the life sciences
• Promoting a wise stewardship of the environment
• Supporting a safe, secure food supply
• Fostering economic vitality
• Facilitating individual and community health and well-being
• Pursuing scholarship that addresses social issues

Our Core Values

In CALS, we embrace a unique blend of values directed at achieving the highest standards of scholarship and the highest levels of commitment to society. We value:

• Respect, honesty, and integrity
• Diversity in all its dimensions (ideas, people, places)
• Inquisitiveness
• Free and open exchange of ideas
• Responsible risk-taking and innovation
• Commitment to scientific rigor, academic excellence, and entrepreneurship
• Dedication to applying knowledge to public needs
• Engagement of partners and stakeholders in scholarship

Undergraduate Student Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Explain, evaluate, and effectively interpret factual claims, theories and assumptions in the student’s discipline(s) (especially in one or more of the college’s priority areas of land grant-agricultural sciences, applied social sciences, environmental sciences, and/or life sciences) and more broadly in the sciences and humanities
• Find, access, critically evaluate, and ethically use information
• Integrate quantitative and qualitative information to reach defensible and creative conclusions
• Communicate effectively through writing, speech, and visual information
• Articulate the views of people with diverse perspectives
• Demonstrate the capability to work both independently and in cooperation with others
• Apply methods of sustainability to the analysis of one or more major challenges facing humans and the Earth's resources.