Book Description
The Guide to Graduate Environmental Programs provides over 160 profiles of graduate programs across the country that offer curricula related to the environment. Because it was impossible to include every program in the book, and because these programs are constantly changing, Island Press welcomes suggested changes and additions to the profiles.
While Island Press is not the official "author" of the book, we are eager to receive new or updated information to be included in the next edition. Drawing from this information, Island Press has created an online listing of programs that were not profiled in the book. To submit your contribution, either fill out the postcard included in the book itself, or e-mail the name, address, phone number, and e-mail address of the "contact person" for that program; someone will contact that person for further information as the second edition is developed. If you would like to correct an error or to provide specific "update" information, please e-mail that information or return the card included in the book.
Following is a description of how the book was researched and the profiles compiled:
The research process began with a list, drawn up by career center staff at University of California at Santa Barbara, of 412 environmental programs, departments, and schools within universities across the country. The list was based on a literature search, queries over the Internet, and contact with environmental professionals and associations. Certificate-only programs were not included. Selection preference was given to programs mentioned repeatedly by environmental professionals, and to those drawing a more diverse student body.
Postcards requesting information and course catalogues were sent to all 412 programs.
A survey was mailed to faculty representing each program. Of the 412 graduate programs queried, 156 programs completed and returned their surveys. Each completed survey was reworked into a profile. Schools that did not respond to the mailing were contacted twice by phone to remind them to return the survey.
To supplement this information, and to ensure that the most noteworthy programs were included in the guide, additional profiles were compiled for a select number of key programs that failed to return their surveys. These latter profiles were based on literature review and personal interviews.
In all, each program was contacted three times – once by mail and twice by phone – to encourage them to submit their surveys, and to verify and update information.
The absence of a particular profile, or segment of a profile, reflects no editorial judgement on the part of the authors. Rather, if a specific program was not profiled, the most likely explanation is that the program in question did not return its survey. If you have information on other graduate environmental programs, please pass that information on to us, so that we can include them in future editions of the guide.
Most of the information provided was accurate as of November 1994 – the date by which the surveys were completed – and some follow-up verification was conducted during the summer of 1996, before the book went into production. There are an ever-expanding number of programs in the environmental field, and existing programs are constantly evolving. Readers should therefore expect to continue to encounter ongoing changes in names, titles, and phone numbers.
Contents
Foreword
How This Book Came to Be
Introduction
PART I. Graduate Environmental Study: A Road Map
Chapter 1. Researching Graduate Environmental Programs
Chapter 2. The Application Process
Chapter 3. An Overview of Graduate Programs
PART II. Program Profiles
-Explanation Of Profile Format and Content
-Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) University
-Antioch New England Graduate School
-Arizona State University
-Auburn University
-Audubon Expedition Institute
-Ball State University
-Bard College
-Baylor University
-Bemidji State University
-Boston University
-Brigham Young University
-Brown University
-California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
-California State University, Chico
-California State University, Fullerton
-California State University, Hayward
-California State University, Long Beach
-California State University, Northridge
-California State University, Sacramento
-California State University, Stanislaus
-Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute Of Technology
-City University of New York (CUNY)
-Clark University
-Clemson University
-College of the Atlantic
-Colorado State University
-Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and School of Public Health
-Cornell University
-Dalhousie University
-Dartmouth College
-Duke University
-Eastern Kentucky University
-The Evergreen State College
-Florida Institute of Technology
-Frostburg State University
-George Washington University
-Goddard College
-Harvard University
-Humboldt State University
-Idaho State University
-Indiana University
-Iowa State University
-Jackson State University
-Johns Hopkins University
-Lehigh University
-Lehman College at the City University of New York
-Mankato State University
-Mcneese State University
-Miami University
-Michigan Technological University
-Mississippi State University
-Montana State University
-Montclair State University
-Moss Landing Marine Labs
-New Jersey Institute of Technology
-New York University
-North Carolina State University
-Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College
-Nova Southeastern University
-The Ohio State University
-Ohio University
-Oklahoma State University
-Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
-Oregon State University
-Pace University School of Law
-Portland State University
-Prescott College
-Princeton University
-Purdue University
-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-Rice University
-Rowan College Of New Jersey
-Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
-Sonoma State University
-Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
-Southern Oregon State College
-Southern University
-Stanford University
-State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
-Tennessee Technological University
-Texas Christian University
-Texas Tech University
-Tufts University
-Tulane University
-University of Arizona
-University of California, Berkeley
-University of California, Davis
-University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
-University of California, Santa Barbara
-University of California, Santa Cruz
-University of Colorado at Boulder
-University of Colorado At Denver
-University of Connecticut
-University of Florida
-University of Illinois at Springfield
-The University of Iowa
-University of Louisville
-University of Maine
-University of Maryland at College Park
-University of Miami
-University of Michigan
-University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus School of Natural Resources
-The University of Montana
-University of New Hampshire
-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-University of Rhode Island
-University of Tennessee, Knoxville
-The University of Vermont
-University of Virginia
-University of Washington
-University of Wisconsin—Green Bay
-University of Wisconsin—Madision
-University Of Wisconsin—Stevens Point
-University of Wyoming
-Utah State University
-Vermont Law School
-Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
-Washington State University
-West Virginia University
-Yale University
PART III. Appendixes
Appendix A: Additional Programs Not Found in This Volume
Appendix B: Sample Survye Form
Appendix C: Resources
PART IV. Indexes
Index 1: Surveyed Universities with Graduate Environmental Programs by State
Index 2: Surveyed Universities with Graduate Environmental Programs by Specialization
