UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The program will begin enrolling student s in the fallsemester and, because many studentz have already taken relevant courses, should be graduating its firsyt water management specialists within a said Kirsten Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’ integrated science-business major. The program is designed to give students a basic background inwater law, environmental law, natural resources and environmental economicss as well as aquatix biology, chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipd with the Milwaukee 7 Water an organizationof business, academia and government in the seven-county area in southeaster Wisconsin that is working to establish the Milwaukee region as a global center for freshwater research, economicx development and education. “Recognizing where the world is business students with a unique educationalk background in water will have a leg up inthe future, makinf a program like this especially valuable,” said Rich Meeusen, president and CEO of Brown Deer-basexd , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council and an alumnua of UW-Whitewater’s business school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduate program atthe ’ds . UWM also is developing a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law School will begijn a water law curriculumthis fall. “Onse of our goals is to help developl seamless talent pipelines between universitiesw andwater businesses,” said Paul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-baser and co-chair of the Water “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive array of higher education institutions in the region working to ensure our worlfd water hub status in the years to come.
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