Resolution for Approval of a new
Ph.D. degree in Climatology
WHEREAS, there is a great and
ongoing concern for advanced training in climatology in the United States with
reports of the National Academy of Science and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, and
WHEREAS, the questions of climate
change and its causes and implications are among the central environmental
questions of our time, and
WHEREAS, the formation of the new
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment in 2009 allows for opportunities
afforded by this new college with additional faculty participation in the Ph.D.
Program, and
WHEREAS, the College of Earth,
Ocean, and Environment Climatology Ph.D. Program Academic Council will provide
expert advice for the development of the proposed curriculum, and oversee the
program, and
WHEREAS, the proposed program will
contribute to the University's "Path to Prominence" goal to become a
premier research and graduate university; be it therefore
RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate
recommends, provisionally for seven years, the establishment of a new Ph.D. in
Climatology.