Hydrology and Water Resources
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 3:20pm — memcinto
Response #2
Name of proposed new unit, OR Title of submission:
Hydrology and Water Resources
183 Hydrology and Water Resources.pdf
Name of contact person for this proposal: Thomas Meixner
Contact person title: Asscoiate Professor
Contact Address:
Room 122 Harshbarger
Contact Phone: 520-626-1532
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Comments
The African American
The African American Advisory Council would want to insure that Transformations processes including consolidations and workforce reductions would not erode The University of Arizona's efforts to recruit and retain diverse faculty, students, and staff.
As a Geologist with a M.S., I
As a Geologist with a M.S., I was looking to further specialize in water. Everybody I spoke with basically agreed that the place which offered the widest and most comprehensive, not to mention the best, program in Hydrology was the University of Arizona. The department of Hydrology and Water Resources is consistently ranked as the #1 program in the country. That is a name that is extremely well known, that the university should be very slow to abandon.
In my time here, I have been rather baffled by the fact that even though the university has a unit specifically dedicated to water, and this unit is universally acknowledged as being one of the best there is, that so many water research and policy operations are housed in other units and not part of it even in name. It would seem that in the process of "re-organizing" the university, that there is also the opportunity to consolidate water-related research, if not in a single unit, at least in a grouping, thus allowing for synergies to develop between faculty and students who are essentially working in the same area, but are presently housed in at least three different colleges. Particularly confusing to me are the existence of a second department with water as part of its prime mission (SWES), and the existence of yet another water oriented unit: the water resources research center, both with no connection whatsoever to the department of Hydrology and Water Resources. The redundancies do not make academic, organizational or fiscal sense.
With the increasingly urgency of the state's quest for water, and its efforts to prevent scarcity from becoming full fledged catastrophe, it would seem wise to consider the division of water related research, and just what might be possible if such a division did not exist.
The UA President’s Hispanic
The UA President’s Hispanic Advisory Council (HAC) is pleased to provide its evaluation of this White Paper/Proposal, with the specific goal of relating it to the joint UA/HAC goals concerning diversity and inclusion, recruitment, retention and graduation of Hispanic students and faculty, and on meeting the UA goal of becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution by 2012. Additional criteria used when reviewing this proposal include the following: UA’s land grant institution status and thus its location in the southwest and the changing demographics of this area; innovative program design, including instruction methodologies; and whether the proposal realistically addresses the UA’s business needs. HAC’s mission it to strengthen relationships between the UA and the diverse communities within the State of Arizona by serving as a communications conduit and developing mutually beneficial partnerships.
HAC has reviewed this proposal and rates this as:
Revamp – this proposal does not sufficiently address the Hispanic Advisory Council criteria and should be revamped.
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