Leadership
Strengthening our mission and values through dedicated leadership.
Leading through experience. Innovating through empowerment.
The leadership in the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences are also experts in their own fields and are committed to shepherding our legacy and cultivating our continued success.
Interim Dean Michael E. Staten
Dr. Michael E. Staten is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Interim Dean for the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences/Cooperative Extension at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Staten has extensive research experience around consumer financial services markets, especially products related to consumer lending, credit reporting, credit scoring and credit risk evaluation, debt relief and rehabilitation, and consumer financial education. Dr. Staten also has a decade of experience in developing and scaling up youth financial education programs for both local and national audiences in classroom environments through the University of Arizona’s Take Charge America Institute. He worked with both the U.S. Treasury Department and the national Council for Economic Education (CEE) to write learning standards and benchmarks for personal finance in grades K-12, including co-authoring CEE’s national standards for Personal Finance.
Michael E. Staten
Executive Leadership
Jon Chorover
Jim Davis
Jeffrey Ratje
Zelieann R. Craig
James Hunt
Jean McLain
Jia Hu
School Directors
- Betsy Arnold, Interim Director and Professor, School of Plant Sciences
- Laura Scaramella, Director, Norton School of Human Ecology
- D. Scott Merrell, Director and Professor, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences
- Kathryn Stoner, Professor and Director, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
- Kenneth Wilund, Director and Professor, School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness
Department Heads
- Joan Curry, Interim Department Head and Professor, Environmental Science
- Murat Kacira, Interim Department Head and Professor, Biosystems Engineering
- Laura Scaramella, Interim Department Head, Agricultural Education, Technology and Innovation
- Bruce Tabashnik, Department Head and Professor, Entomology
- Gary Thompson, Department Head and Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics