2019 BAA Policy Board of Directors

(Expiration of Term follows name)

Chair

Orlando F. McMeans (2021)
Vice President for Research and Public Service
West Virginia State University

Alternate:  Kenneth L. White, Utah State University
 

Chair-elect

Thomas G. Coon (2023)
Vice President, Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Oklahoma State University

Alternate:  Cathann A. Kress, The Ohio State University
 

Academic Programs Section

R. Elaine Turner (2019)
Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
University of Florida

Alternate:  Anne I. Veeger, University of Rhode Island
 

Cooperative Extension Section

Michelle S. Rodgers (2019)
Associate Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension
University of Delaware

Alternate:  E. Fred Schlutt, Jr., University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Experiment Station Section

Gary A. Thompson (2020)
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Director, Agricultural Experiment Station
The Pennsylvania State University

Alternate:  Deb Hamernik, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 

International Agriculture Section

John R. Vreyens (2020)
Director, Global Initiatives
University of Minnesota Extension

Alternate:  Amrit N. Bart, University of Georgia

1890 Land-Grant Universities

Mark Latimore, Jr. (2019)
Director of Land-Grant Programs and Extension Administrator
Fort Valley State University

Alternate:  Robert W. Taylor, Alabama A&M University

 

1994 Land-Grant Universities

Stephen R. Yanni (2019)
Land-Grant Director
Bay Mills Community College

Alternate:  Charlene E. Carr, Institute of American Indian Arts

APLU Non-Land-Grant Universities

Cindy L. Akers (2019)
Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs and
Professor, Agricultural Communications
Texas Tech University

Alternate:  Karen L. Jones,  Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Insular/Territorial Institutions

Lee S. Yudin (2020)
Dean and Professor, College of Natural and Applied Sciences
University of the Guam

Alternate: Thomas W. Zimmerman, University of the Virgin Islands
 

APLU (ex officio)

Douglas L. Steele
Vice President for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

Staff

Eddie G. Gouge
Senior Associate Director, Federal Relations – Food and Agricultural Sciences,
Executive Director, Council for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching (CARET),
and Executive Director, Board on Human Sciences
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities