ASAP’s mission is to help people and organizations work together to convert knowledge into wisdom and to sustain a healthy agriculture. We believe universities must continue to play a central role in agriculture and to do this we must face challenges.

The Kellogg Commission on Land Grant Institutions has identified the following challenges universities face:

• Seismic shifts in public attitudes

• New demographics and technologies
• Accountability to students, parents, communities, and taxpayers
• An increasingly skeptical press

ASAP aspires to help address these issues by helping facilitate effective learning communities,  and supporting and inspiring faculty, staff, and learners of all kinds. Please select from the links below to learn more about the online giving opportunities available to College of Law alumni and friends.

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Our Programs

• ASAP Program fund

• supports staff to develop programs for outreach and study of alternative farm management, food systems and health.  Current priority projects include hiring staff to help source local food for campus food services and securing funds to support a farm manager to help design and run a sustainable agriculture education farm.

• Scully Scholars
• Supports undergraduate student inquiry on issues of agricultural sustainability and health.  Students will partner with projects taking place on campus or in the community. Scully Scholars will research and publish on topics of interest to the community. For a limited time, gifts will be matched. 
  
• Sustainable LIFE
• The Laboratory for Illinois Food and Environment will support interdisciplinary graduate and continuing education.  Funds will be used for graduate stipends for applied projects and community based research.