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| Logo redesign for the SU Land-Grant Campus |
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Rouge, La. – The Southern University Board of Supervisors voted to approve a
logo redesign and revision to the mission statement for the Southern University
Land-Grant Campus during their regular meeting on Friday, February 17, 2017.
A
document in the February 2017 Board of Supervisors packet stated that the,
“rebranding efforts for the Southern University Agricultural Research and
Extension Center (SU Ag Center) and the College of Agricultural, Family and
Consumer Sciences (CAFCS) include redesigning the current logo and updating the
mission statement to reflect the recent joining of these two entities to become
the Southern University Land-Grant Campus.”
Documents
went on to say that, “the new logo is encased in a circle which represents the
interconnected nature of each aspect of the Land-Grant Campus….Each arm of the
tripartite land-grant mission of Teaching, Research, and Extension is represented
in the triangle. The apex symbolizes that the Land-Grant Campus, together with
the Southern University System, is moving onward and upward, contributing to
the advancement of all mankind.”
The
revised mission statement reads, “The Land-Grant Campus of the Southern
University and A&M College System embraces a mission consistent with the
University's tripartite mission of teaching, research, and extension/public
service. Our land-grant role is to educate, train and mentor a cadre of highly
skilled students and professionals to prepare them for a highly technological
and globalized workforce. To effectively serve the agricultural and food
science industry, we conduct basic and applied research and disseminate information
statewide. This allows us to better serve the citizens of Louisiana in a manner
that is useful in addressing their scientific, technological, social, economic
and cultural needs and enhance their overall quality of life.”
The
board also approved the renaming of the SU Ag Center’s satellite campus in
Opelousas from the Southwest Center for Rural Initiatives to the Sustainable
Agricultural, Rural Development Institute (SARDI), and the establishment of the
Southern Institute for One Health, One Medicine (SIOHOM), which will serve as
an umbrella organization that promotes interdisciplinary research, teaching,
and outreach/extension to improve the lives both humans and animals.
More
information will be forth coming.
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