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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemesterr and, because many students have already takenh relevant courses, should be graduating its first water management specialists within a year, said Kirstehn Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewatee and coordinator of the school’x integrated science-business major. The program is designefd to give students a basic background inwateer law, environmental law, natural resources and environmental economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internships with the Milwaukee 7 Water an organizationof business, academi a and government in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establishy the Milwaukee region as a global center for freshwatedr research, economic development and education. “Recognizinvg where the world is headed, business students with a unique educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich Meeusen, president and CEO of Brown Deer-basede , co-chair of the Milwaukeew 7 Water Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’s busines school.
The council alreadyg has a relationships with the graduat program atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-leveo School of Freshwater while ’s Law School will begi a water law curriculumthis fall. “One of our goale is to help develop seamless talent pipelines between universities andwaterr businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-basee and co-chair of the Water Council.
“UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new tracl adds to the impressive arraty of higher education institutions in the region working to ensurwe our world water hub status in the yearsto
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