COLLEGES


opportunities that are consistent with current
degree programs. The Graduate School also will
have available information concerning new
interdisciplinary curriculum clusters as they are
approved.

The Institute of Advanced
Environmental Studies
 The Institute of Advanced Environmental
Studies is a proposed new research center creat-
ed in cooperation with the College of Natural
Resources and Environment. The institute is


designed to support collaborative partnerships
between faculty and students of UF and exter-
nal scholars, practitioners, business people, and
citizens nationally, internationally, and within
the state of Florida. Wherever possible, the insti-
tute will encourage working partnerships
between science and citizens through civic asso-
ciations, institutions of governance, and busi-
ness enterprises.
 The institute will create an exploratory envi-
ronment for alternative approaches and per-
spectives that integrate traditional research. It
will focus scholarship and policies across media,
scales, and systems. The institute will be orga-


nized as a collaborative network that serves to
sponsor integrative scientific inquiry and to host
important events that forward those efforts. Its
mission complements the new college's teaching
vocation, which will integrate the natural sci-
ences, engineering, and social sciences in under-
standing, designing, and managing complex
regional and global interactions between living
nature, the physical environment, and people.
 Subject to both formal official approval of
the college and the institute, a small set of core
projects and activities will begin in 1993-94, as a
base that will change and expand as the life of
the institute evolves.