Stories indexed with the term ‘degree program’

A new bachelor’s degree for the University of Michigan School of Information was authorized by UM regents at their May 17, 2012 meeting. Undergraduates would be able to declare this as their major in the fall of 2014.

According to a staff memo signed by SI dean Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, the degree program “will teach students a variety of social and technical levers for changing information flows: how to elicit information that would not otherwise be gathered; how to make it accessible when it would not otherwise be (and vice-versa); how to aggregate and present it in ways that make it meaningful and actionable. It will also teach students how to analyze information flows (who knows what and when) and their … [Full Story]

Creation of a new undergraduate degree in environmental engineering was authorized by the University of Michigan board of regents at its March 15, 2012 meeting. The degree, to be offered by the College of Engineering, will be available starting in the fall of 2012.

According to a staff memo, undergraduates who previously studied environmental engineering “were advised to earn a degree in civil engineering, given the structure of the job market for environmental engineers. However, the field has matured considerably and the employment options and employer criteria are more diverse today. The proposed degree will provide students interested in environmental engineering the opportunity to focus their coursework more deeply in the necessary natural sciences, such as chemistry and biology.”

This brief was filed from the Michigan … [Full Story]