Since the university’s founding, we have trained students for careers in agriculture and the life sciences. Research programs ensure an abundant and safe food supply, while work in the life sciences leads to advances in health for humans, animals and plants.

The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, based in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, reaches out to citizens through centers in all 100 North Carolina counties and on the Cherokee Reservation. Through this network, Cooperative Extension delivers up-to-date information and support to farmers and agri-businesses, and offers a wide range of programs to improve the quality of life for North Carolina’s youth and their families.

Through the Achieve! campaign, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will raise $275 million in private gifts to further its 21st century land-grant mission of teaching, research, extension and public service. These gifts will allow us to better serve our students, North Carolina’s citizens and people throughout the world. Funds raised for CALS through the Achieve! campaign will be used for:

• Undergraduate and graduate scholarships, including those for 4-H and FFA
• Fellowships to attract the best and brightest graduate students
• Faculty development funds to allow the College to attract and retain outstanding teaching, research, and extension faculty
• Research funding for faculty providing solutions to our most pressing challenges
• Program development funding and endowments for:
  • Valued-added and alternative agricultural enterprises
  • Cooperative Extension, including:
    • Agriculture and the natural environment,
    • Family and Consumer Sciences, and
    • 4-H and other youth programs
  • FFA and Agricultural Education programs
  • Centers of Excellence in which faculty pursue solutions to scientific problems
  • The JC Raulston Arboretum
• Capital projects, including:
  • Facilities and equipment for campus, research stations, and 4-H camps and conference centers
  • Real estate donations to our Landscapes of Opportunity campaign, dedicated to preserving North Carolina's agricultural heritage and greenspaces, and providing new educational facilities for the College
  • Unrestricted funds to allow the College the flexibility to respond to new opportunities

For more information on CALS, including how you can give directly to our college, please visit our home page.