Jealousies occur because of overlapping distance education or other programs.
A study conducted several years ago found that there were more than a dozen administrative organizational structure models within colleges of agriculture. For example, at some institutions the experiment station, extension service and academic programs are within the same structure, reporting to a common dean or vice president. At other institutions, extension might be viewed as broader than agriculture and will be under the jurisdiction of someone other than the agricultural dean or vice president. Also, distance education is centralized on some campuses, often the responsibility of continuing education programs or even perhaps of the university public broadcasting operation. On other campuses, each college may be operating independently even to the point of equipping its own distance education classrooms and studios rather than using a centralized university facility.