Former US Secretary of Agriculture to speak on campus Tuesday
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Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and North Dakota Gov. Ed Schafer will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday night in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union at a lecture sponsored by the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Committee on Lectures.
Schafer’s lecture, “Innovation in Global Agriculture in the Twenty-first Century,” will take place.
“Our program has set a goal this year of bringing more agriculture entrepreneurs on campus to interact with students and faculty,” said Stacey Noe, program coordinator for the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Noe said Schafer’s presentation will “kick off” the spring semester of speakers the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative will bring to classrooms to help learn about agricultural entrepreneurship.
Schafer, a native of Bismarck, N.D., graduated from the University of North Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He received his master’s in business administration from the University of Denver.
Noe said the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative hopes to “expose [lecture attendees] to the diversity Ed Schafer has done throughout his lifetime.”
Schafer became the president of the Gold Seal Company, a family business in 1978. After the company was sold in 1986, he started other businesses, including a real estate development company, a fish farm, a class car dealership and a wireless voice and high-speed data company, Noe said.
He served as the governor of North Dakota from 1992 to 2000 and was sworn in as the 29th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 28, 2008.
Pat Miller, director of the lectures program, said Monday afternoon that the event is happening as planned.
Any event-related information, including weather cancellations or postponements, will be announced on the lecture program’s Web site at www.lectures.iastate.edu.
Schafer’s lecture, “Innovation in Global Agriculture in the Twenty-first Century,” will take place.
“Our program has set a goal this year of bringing more agriculture entrepreneurs on campus to interact with students and faculty,” said Stacey Noe, program coordinator for the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Noe said Schafer’s presentation will “kick off” the spring semester of speakers the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative will bring to classrooms to help learn about agricultural entrepreneurship.
Schafer, a native of Bismarck, N.D., graduated from the University of North Dakota with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He received his master’s in business administration from the University of Denver.
Noe said the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative hopes to “expose [lecture attendees] to the diversity Ed Schafer has done throughout his lifetime.”
Schafer became the president of the Gold Seal Company, a family business in 1978. After the company was sold in 1986, he started other businesses, including a real estate development company, a fish farm, a class car dealership and a wireless voice and high-speed data company, Noe said.
He served as the governor of North Dakota from 1992 to 2000 and was sworn in as the 29th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 28, 2008.
Pat Miller, director of the lectures program, said Monday afternoon that the event is happening as planned.
Any event-related information, including weather cancellations or postponements, will be announced on the lecture program’s Web site at www.lectures.iastate.edu.
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