"I've never felt uncomfortable dropping in to say hello,"
Daugherty says. "Little things like that make a huge difference
to students. That always seems to impress them."
Daugherty has sent a steady stream of students to Purdue's School of
Agriculture because he wants to see both the student and the school
succeed.
"Some kids are scared of a mammoth university like Purdue,"
Daugherty admits. "Purdue has the prestige of a large university,
but within the College of Agriculture, you have the feeling that you
are part of a family.
"There is the food science family, the entomology family, the
animal sciences family, and so on with each department. You get close,
personal contact from each department in the school. That's one of the
things that makes the College of Agriculture so special, you're never
just a number."
Those are words Whittaker likes to hear.
"We've always taken pride in being a high-touch school,"
Whittaker says. "We try to reach out to our students on every level.
With the "GO in AG" campaign, we just want to make sure we
reach out to high school students who may apply to our school in the
same way we reach out to our current undergraduate and graduate students."
Each scout has been given a short list of high school students in their
geographic region of the state who not only have shown academic interests
in life sciences, international business, biotechnology or food technologies,
but who have demonstrated leadership skills as well.
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