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I am thrilled to welcome everyone back to campus for the 2023-24 academic year! The atmosphere on campus is much more exciting when our students, faculty and staff are all interacting on a daily basis. I hope each of you have an enjoyable and successful year! Another year in CAFNR is another year of student success. Our top priority is recruiting talented students with a desire to cultivate healthy economies, environments, people, food systems, and animal and human health. We’re opening this semester with over 700 NEW students enrolled in CAFNR! This is the third largest new student enrollment in the history of the college. The largest were in 2011 and 2012, at the peak of Mizzou’s enrollment. For new students, one measure of academic success is a successful first year and return for their second year at Mizzou. With a 93.5% opening day retention rate, our second-year students, with the help of our faculty and staff, have knocked academic success out of the park. This retention rate is the highest in the history of the college. CAFNR’s previous high retention was 90.7% in fall 2018. If you’re returning to CAFNR for your final year, you’re about to join a successful club: CAFNR graduates, with 98.2% of our most recent graduates employed, serving in the military, or pursuing advanced degrees in graduate or professional schools within six months of earning their degree. This is the fourth year in a row that we have achieved our goal of 95% of graduates with Career Success — and 51% percent of those graduates earned their degree debt free. Let’s make this semester as successful as our opening day stats. Go Tigers! Bryan Garton
Senior Associate Dean
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