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Alison Price is an ag education graduate from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She will address her fellow peers this weekend, as she’s been selected to give the commencement address.
Thomas Capps: Addressing the Graduating Class of 2023. Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I’m Thomas Capps.
Alison Price: So I get to give a big speech at graduation and address my graduating class, most of whom I haven’t even met because of the virtual aspect of most of my college experience.
Thomas Capps: Alison Price is a graduating ag education student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. This weekend, Price will walk across the stage with thousands of other graduating seniors, but her duties on graduation day will be a bit more than most. She has been selected to give the commencement address at graduation.
Alison Price: It’s a great honor. I mean, I definitely don’t think that I deserve it out of everyone in my class. But I’m really excited to advocate for agriculture in a different way in front of my classmates and in front of the family members that may not even realize what their kid or their nephews agriculture degree has in store for them.
Thomas Capps: Her message to her peers comes directly from her COVID filled college experience.
Alison Price: There isn’t really a way to define what being a Herbert student is because everyone, especially with this graduating class, has had a different experience. So, the majority of my speech is about not being that token student, but also about thanking all the people that have gotten you to where you are in your college experience.
Thomas Capps: Price already has a job lined up in the fall as she will be teaching agriculture at Eagleton College and Career Academy in Blount County. She hopes to help teach and inspire future ag students to pursue a career in helping feed the world.
Alison Price: If I can even show one kid where their food comes from or give someone an inborn fondness of agriculture, I think that I’ll feel accomplished in my career. I think that as long as I am educating students and showing them that agriculture is important, and maybe show a student that they want to go into agriculture education.
Thomas Capps: A great honor to speak about agriculture and teach agriculture to hopefully thousands of students over a career, but first to thousands of fellow graduates this weekend. For Tennessee Home and Farm Radio, I’m Thomas Capps.
