UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - Birmingham Business Journal:

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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemesterd and, because many students have already taken relevantr courses, should be graduating its first water managemen t specialists within a year, said Kirsteh Crossgrove, associate professor of biologg at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’s integratedd science-business major. The program is designed to give studentsd a basic background inwaterf law, environmental law, natural resourceas and environmental economics as well as aquatic biology, chemistry and ecology.
Studentss will serve internships with the Milwaukewe 7Water Council, an organization of business, academia and governmeny in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsib that is working to establisn the Milwaukee region as a global center for freshwater research, economic developmenty and education. “Recognizing where the worlxd is headed, business students with a unique educationa background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like this especially saidRich Meeusen, chairman, president and CEO of Brownb Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukew 7 Water Council and an alumnusa of UW-Whitewater’s business school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduate program atthe ’sw . UWM also is developing a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, whiles ’s Law School will begin a water law curriculumthis “One of our goals is to help develol seamless talent pipelines betweenm universities and water said Paul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chaier of the Water Council. “UW-Whitewater’es one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive array of highef education institutions in the region workiny to ensure our world water hub status in the yeardto come.
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