2021 Joint CARET/AHS Virtual Meeting

Land-Grant Universities:  Leading and Partnering with Solutions for Life's Challenges for America is the meeting's theme, and some of the highlights will be:

• overviews and discussion of exemplary efforts during the pandemic in the areas of research, Extension, teaching, and international programs
   
• a presentation from Dr. Carrie Castille, the new director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture at the U. S. Department of Agriculture
   
• the Fiscal Year 2022 budget recommendations from the Board on Agriculture Assembly
   
• regional meetings
   
• presentations from the 2020 Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in College and University Teaching award winners
   
• a panel addressing mental health and the Extension Task Force on Health
   
• presentation of the new Meritorious Service to CARET Award