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Alabama’s most profitable agricultural industry is the focus of a new partnership between Auburn University and 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 Community College in Hanceville. 的伙伴关系 is designed to open more career doors in a part of the state where much of the poultry 工业集中. 

Students in the program will complete their freshman and sophomore years at Wallace State and their junior and senior years at Auburn, completing a bachelor’s degree 家禽科学.

“This is an excellent opportunity not only for Auburn and for 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 but for 阿拉巴马州。. 奥本农业学院院长威廉·巴彻勒说. “家禽是我们州的主要农业资源. 这是一个巨大的经济产业 importance to us, and it’s an industry offering excellent career paths for students. We’re grateful to our friends at 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 for helping make this partnership possible.”

阿拉巴马州的家禽业年收入超过3亿美元.每年10亿美元 占该州农业年收入的65%以上.

“澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 values this partnership with Auburn University, which recognizes the strength of our poultry industry in Cullman County and surrounding counties, and which provides a ringing endorsement of the outstanding education 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 offers,” 澳门威尼斯人APP下载州立大学校长. 维姬Karolewics. “感谢奥本的工作 University poultry science program, and the graduates we are pleased to now produce together, there is growing demand from around the world for our state’s expertise 在这个区域.” 

Karolewics credits Fred Cespedes, recently retired vice president of American Proteins and 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 Future Foundation Board member emeritus, with helping to spearhead 的伙伴关系. 弗雷德和他的妻子霍莉为澳门威尼斯人APP下载设立了奖学金 有兴趣进入该领域的州立学生.

“As important as poultry is to our area, it has made sense to me for a long time that 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 should have this program and that a partnership with Auburn would be a proverbial ‘match made in heaven’ – a win for both institutions,” Cespedes said.

他帮助医生. Karolewics为这样一个项目征集了业界的支持，并获得了支持 endorsements from Randall Ennis, chief executive officer at Aviagen; Ricky Walker, 泰森食品公司的综合经理.’s Alabama Operations; Jason Spann, general manager of American Proteins’ Hanceville Division; and Bill Ingram, president of Golden Rod/Ingram 农场等.

“As a former student of a similar 2+2 program, I can speak first hand on the amazing benefits a program like this allows students,” said Spann, who oversees the Hanceville division of American Proteins, the largest poultry rendering complex in the world. “Not only does this program provide students with a quality education, it offers students an opportunity to live and work at home, or closer to home, gaining knowledge and 在面对一所大型大学的生活挑战之前的经历. 2+2程序 between 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 and Auburn University is a benefit to our students and our industry.”

Ennis and Walker discussed the breadth of opportunities in the field, which may come as a surprise to the uninitiated, and the healthy job market available to graduates.

“因为家禽是第一. 1 .亚拉巴马州的农产品价格超过 $3 billion in sales, the job opportunities are endless and compensation packages are very competitive,” said Ennis, of Aviagen, which supplies day-old grandparent and parent stock chicks to customers in 130 countries worldwide under the Arbor Acres, 印第安河和罗斯品牌的名字.

Ennis said opportunities are not limited to the state of Alabama but can be found 遍及美国和世界各地. “巴西、泰国、 Australia and Europe have thriving industries and are always seeking qualified individuals 受过家禽科学方面的培训.”

“作为美国最大的家禽生产州之一.S.，家禽业 in Alabama provides career opportunities for a diverse population of workers. While traditional careers in poultry production and management remain important, a degree 家禽科学 could offer a wide variety of career fields,” said Ricky Walker, Alabama 泰森食品公司综合经理.

Some of those areas include sales, food science, nutrition, veterinary support, quality assurance/meat quality, feed milling, quantitative genetics, and genomics as well 作为家禽生产的多个方面.

While at 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态, students enrolled in 的伙伴关系 program will complete 他们的核心课程以及农业入门课程. 农业 课程将在奥本校园进行直播.

Dr. Don Conner, head of Auburn’s Department of 家禽科学, said the program will 同时提供“早期和当地的实习经历”.

“Hanceville is right in the middle of a heavy concentration of poultry industry and a heavy job demand for students with a degree 家禽科学,” Conner said.

Summer internships are available with most of the poultry companies in Alabama, which offer students a look at different disciplines to help determine the area they may 毕业后想继续追求.

Conner said that Auburn’s poultry science program has held a 100 percent job placement rate for several years due to its quality as well as the demand for well-trained business 行业的领导者、科学家和生产者.

Scholarships are available to poultry science students at both Auburn and Wallace State, including the Fred and Holly Cespedes Endowed Scholarship Fund, available to 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 students studying agriculture, horticulture production, poultry science 或相关领域. 澳门威尼斯人APP下载州立大学的学生也有资格获得联合奖学金 offered by the Alabama Poultry and Egg Association and other scholarships through 澳门威尼斯人APP下载州未来基金会.

For enrollment information, contact the 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 Office of 招生 at 256-352-8238 or lioncentral@dongxin01.com，或致电334844-2881或 plastcr@auburn.edu.