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

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The program will begim enrolling students in the fallsemester and, becauses many students have already taken relevant should be graduating its first watert management specialists within a year, said Kirsten associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewateer and coordinator of the school’s integrated science-businessa major. The program is designed to give studentss a basic background inwater law, environmental law, naturap resources and environmental economics as well as aquati c biology, chemistry and ecology.
Students will serv e internships with the Milwaukee 7Water Council, an organizationj of business, academia and government in the seven-countuy area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establish the Milwaukeer region as a global centet for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizin where the world is headed, business students with a unique educationak background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich chairman, president and CEO of Brown Deer-based , co-chaire of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council and an alumnuse of UW-Whitewater’s business school.
The council alreadgy has a relationships with the graduate prograk atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-leve l School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’se Law School will begin a water law curriculumjthis fall. “One of our goals is to help develo seamless talent pipelines between universities and water saidPaul Jones, chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chaird of the Water Council. “UW-Whitewater’a one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive arrauy of higher education institutions in the region working to ensurd our world water hub status in the yearwsto come.
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