IPA’s Water Resources Agency fulfills its education role by offering seminars and forums with a water-resources focus and advising undergraduate and graduate students through funded assistantships. Its staff is involved in teaching water-related courses, both in the School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA) and in the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In addition, staff work with civic groups and within the state’s K-12 schools to educate citizens about the crucial importance of water.
The goal of providing water resources–education opportunities at the University is significant to SPPA’s public policy–education mission. IPA’s Water Resources Agency staff educate students who will assume future water-resources positions with our government funding partners. WRA’s challenge is to balance the offering of water resources–education opportunities both on- and off-campus while maintaining its primary public service mission.
IPA staffers Martha Corrozi Narvaez and Nicole Minni help comprise the steering committee of Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO)—an educational program for local decision-makers that addresses the relationship between land use and natural-resource protection, with a focus on watersheds—and participated in the writing of the NEMO manual, which serves as an educational guide to natural-resource protection.
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)Also see the following education-related pages:
For more information, contact Gerald Kauffman (302-831-4929).
