2013-37

Arizona State University
University Senate
Spring 2013

Senate Motion #2013-37

Motion Introduced by:         Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee
                                              Arnold Maltz, Chair
 
Date of First Reading:          February 18, 2013
 
Date of Second Reading:      March 25, 2013
 
Title of Motion:                     

Request from the College of Technology and Innovation – Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management – for the establishment of a graduate degree – PhD in Agribusiness and Resource Management
 
Action Requested:

The Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee recommends University Senate approval
of a proposal submitted by the College of Technology and Innovation – Morrison School of
Agribusiness and Resource Management – for the establishment of a graduate degree – PhD
in Agribusiness and Resource Management


Rationale:

The Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management (MSARM, a unit within the College of Technology and Innovation, CTI) proposes a PhD in Agribusiness and Resource Management (ARM). MSARM has offered an Agribusiness concentration under the Ph.D. in Business Administration jointly with the W. P. Carey School of Business since 2008, but wishes to establish a stand-alone Ph.D. to be housed in CTI. The PhD in ARM will train a new generation of scholars who will be fully capable of assuming faculty positions in the top Agribusiness and Resource Management programs in the world. The focus of the degree will be the rigorous theoretical and empirical study of issues unique to the food, energy, environment, resource, water and habitat systems in the US and abroad. The PhD is inherently interdisciplinary as it will combine study in environmental sciences, business and sustainability to produce scholars capable of conducting research that cuts across many traditional fields of inquiry.