The West Virginia University Division for Land-Grant Engagement supports the teaching, research and service missions of the Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, WVU Extension and WVU Center for Community Engagement. The Division brings together units which have historically defined WVU’s land-grant partnership with the federal government, including USDA-NIFA and other agencies.
This Division celebrates WVU’s history as marked by four federal acts: The Morrill, Hatch, Smith-Lever, McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research acts.
Our faculty and staff are dedicated to carrying out the land-grant mission to provide knowledge and research to improve the lives and livelihoods of our students, alumni, community partners, and the state of West Virginia.
Mission
The Division for Land-Grant Engagement unites the strengths of WVU Extension, the Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the Center for Community Engagement. Together, we expand our collective capacity to support faculty and staff, empower students, industries, and communities to lead and adapt, and meet the evolving needs of West Virginia—its people, its industries, and its future.
Vision
We envision a Division that is unified in purpose, operationally strong, and programmatically innovative—one that empowers its units to excel and delivers meaningful, measurable value to the people of West Virginia and beyond.