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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemestere and, because many studentes have already taken relevant should be graduating its first watet management specialists within a year, said Kirsten Crossgrove, associate professoer of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’ws integrated science-business major. The program is designedr to give students a basiv background inwater law, environmental law, naturapl resources and environmental economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipes with the Milwaukee 7Water Council, an organization of business, academia and government in the seven-counth area in southeastern Wisconsin that is workinbg to establish the Milwaukee region as a global center for freshwatet research, economic development and education. “Recognizing wherd the world is headed, business students with a uniquew educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like this especially saidRich Meeusen, chairman, president and CEO of Brow Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Wated Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’s business school.
The council already has a relationshipas with the graduate program atthe ’a . UWM also is developint a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law Schookl will begin a water law curriculumthis “One of our goals is to help develolp seamless talent pipelines between universities and water said Paul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chaitr of the Water Council.
“UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressiver array of higher education institutions in the region workinhg to ensure our world water hub status in the yearsto
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