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For more than 50 years, the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) has dedicated itself to the improvement of college teaching. The annual NACTA conference provides a forum for sharing innovation and honoring excellence in teaching. This year, to foster educational partnerships and encourage an extensive exchange of ideas within the academic community, NACTA has invited the Science and Education Resources Development (SERD) unit of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) to join us in the 2008 Conference.
* NACTA is a professional society whose members are post-secondary teachers of agriculture and related resource and life sciences from two-year and four-year colleges, public and private.
* The CSREES SERD unit administers competitive grant programs to improve teaching practices within the Nation's food and agricultural sciences...