Scott Ermer
Dean, Agricultural Sciences

Chronology of Career Path

• High school vocational agriculture teacher
• Grain elevator, feed and fertilizer business manager
• Community college agriculture instructor
• Community college administrator

Iowa farm background with B.S. and M.S. from Iowa State University

Kirkwood's agriculture department has an enrollment of nearly 700 students in 12 different programs.  Twenty full-time instructors and a 500-acre teaching lab contribute to the second highest national ranking in conferring two-year associate agricultural degrees.

Jerry has implemented increased math and science skills into agriculture curriculums, worked for increased articulation agreements with university agriculture programs, and successfully procured grants from local, state, and national entities.  The largest being in a three-year $3,000,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the development of an advanced technology center for agriculture focusing on associate degree colleges.  Jerry's main hobbies are corvette's and he can be reached at jbolton@kirkwood.edu or 319-398-4944