From conbio@u.washington.edu Wed Apr 8 10:38:41 1998 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA60644 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:38:40 -0700 Received: from homer32.u.washington.edu (conbio@homer32.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.19]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA34936 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:38:39 -0700 Received: from localhost (conbio@localhost) by homer32.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id KAA109016 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:38:36 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:38:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Conservation Biology To: consbio@u.washington.edu Subject: Conservation Biology Policy Certificate Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII FR: P. Dee Boersma boersma@u.washington.edu You are encouraged to share this information with faculty and students who are interested in Conservation Biology. I'm writing to you because at some time over the last 10 years you expressed an interest in seeing a program in Conservation Biology develop at the University of Washington. It has been a long and slow process with lots of set backs but on May 21 the Graduate School will consider a proposal for a Certificate in Conservation Biology Policy. Students particularly in the Graduate School of Public Affairs, feel that having a stamp on their transcript saying Certificate in Conservation Biology would be useful to them in their job hunting. Many faculty members believe that having an interdisciplinary program in Conservation Biology will not only serve students but will also help faculty interested in Conservation Biology develop courses that might not otherwise be offered on campus. The certificate proposal is a modest one that recognizes what students are already doing, helps coordinate the interdisciplinary effort, and give faculty some oversight and quality control. The members of the Graduate School Committee that will consider this proposal are: Assoc. Dean Elizabeth Feetham; Assoc. Dean Julius Debro; Barbara Rasco; David Morris; Dean Marsha L. Landolt; Deborah McCutchen; James J. Clauss; Jody Nyquist; Leon Slutsky; Les Atlas; Robert Cleland; Sally Schauman; Sean Sullivan; Stephen Majeski and Tina Kotek. If you want to see a Certificate in Conservation Biology on this campus this is the time to express your support for such a program to one of the people listed above or to the Dean of the Graduate School. If you are interested in reading the proposal, please contact Alice Blandin at email conbio@u.washington.edu. The Certificate in Conservation Biology Policy would require students to take Biology 476, one capstone course which is a course that is interdisciplinary and directed toward conservation biology problem solving and a course in two of the three core disciplines: law and policy, economics, and social ecology. The certificate calls for students to take a minimum of 21 hours in conservation biology and have their program approved by the Conservation Biology Steering Committee. Members of the Steering Committee for the proposed certificate program are: Robert Francis, Fisheries; Jerry Franklin, Forest Resources; Annette Olson, Marine Affairs; Iain Robertson, Architecture and Urban Planning; Bill Rodgers, Law; Eric Smith, Social Anthropology; Dick Zerbe, Public Affairs and Dee Boersma, Zoology. I'd be happy to talk with you about the proposal and would welcome your ideas and help in moving this certificate proposal forward. Should the Policy certificate be approved, students are interested in developing another track called Conservation Biology Science for consideration next year. Dee Boersma 616-2185 boersma@u.washington.edu .