Department of
Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
8 Degree Programs
Our degree programs lead to professional careers. Graduates are uniquely equipped for leadership, education, communication and training roles in the broad field of agricultural sciences and human performance.
8 Unique Minors and Certificates
These unique programs include a variety of hands-on learning opportunities such as magazine and podcast production, student teaching, graduate certificates with international or extension focuses, or a leadership fellows program unlike any other.
800+ Enrolled Students
Our students are training to be the next generation of communicators, educators, leaders and professionals in the food, agriculture, natural resource and human sciences.
Investing in student success
There are endless opportunities in the program and the diversity of the faculty and their knowledge is rare! I also love the relationships built with faculty and other peers.
Emily Catalan, M.S. Student
Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications News
Dara Wald honored as Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Dara Wald, Ph.D., has been named to the 2024 class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Wald is a tenured Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications, Bryan-College Station. She is also a research fellow at the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy.
From skinny jeans to Aggie dreams
Just before beginning high school, Jade Williams ’24 moved from the bustling city of Dallas to Normangee, a transition her mother saw as an opportunity for their family to embrace rural living. With aspirations to pursue art, Williams mapped out her class schedule. However, upon discovering that all art-related courses were at capacity, she decided to take a chance and enroll in an agricultural education course instead.
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