The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is expected to vote today on a proposal to create the country’s first school of freshwater science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Given the excellent work already being done at UWM’s Great Lakes WATER Institute and the position of UWM and southeastern Wisconsin on the shore of the planet’s largest freshwater system, the regents should have no doubts about following the lead of their Education Committee – which approved the proposal Thursday – and giving it their imprimatur.