May 20, 2005

Forging a Place for Environmental Studies

By DOUGLAS J. CRAWFORD-BROWN

Environmental-studies programs have become immensely popular with students, but the question of how to incorporate them into the curriculum has posed difficult challenges for colleges and universities. Such programs bring intellectual vitality to a university, but they can siphon significant resources -- with budgets of a million dollars or more per year -- from the traditional disciplines. They also cut across administrative units such as arts and sciences, law, medicine, and

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