It seems that there is no Dept. of Geography at USC any more.
I remember several years ago in a private party, some of senior professors
of geography celebrated that the department did well in the internal review.
Apparently there was another internal review recently. Below is copied from
USC geography homepage.
"We have recently embarked on a sweeping series of changes to transform the
USC Geography Department into a Spatial Science Program that can help build
excellence in research, teaching and outreach across the entire
university -- this effort stretches from the fundamental spatial sciences
(i.e. parts of computer science, geography and psychology) to those that can
usefully modify and apply the geospatial technologies and underlying
scientific concepts (e.g. earth science, epidemiology, history, landscape
architecture and planning, among others)."
Jung Won
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Jung Won SONN
Ph.D. in Urban Planning
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Urban Economic Development
BSc. Programme Director
Bartlett School of Planning
UCL, University of London
Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 4893
Fax: +44 (0)87 1251 9402
New MSc: Sustainable Urbanism:
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/planning/programmes/msc_dp/sust_u.htm
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From: "Kristopher Olds" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Guardian: Thousands to lose jobs as UK universities prepare to
cope with cuts
This 15 January entry (ie before the most recent budget numbers were
released) in GlobalHigherEd explores some of the issues people have been
discussing here:
Is a UK funding crisis an effective mechanism to spur on the ‘education
as a global growth industry’ development agenda?
http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/is-a-uk-funding-crisis-needed/
Some of my colleagues in the UK have more recently suggested that the
Russell group figures are 'rubbish' re their view that cuts will bring
universities to their knees, and they put forward the notion that the
ultimate objective (not shared by all, of course) is for student fees to
rise and for a system of graduate loans to be introduced.
Meanwhile US public universities are suffering in a serious way as state
fiscal crises vis a vis thin operating margins puts universities on the
edge. Moody's released a series of analyses yesterday about this issue
regarding one US state. Things will roll along, of course, but the key
issue is who will feel the squeeze and who will be protected and indeed
nurtured...and, of course, this plays itself out differentially at a
range of scales (intra-departmental on up).
I wonder how Geography, as a discipline, will do over the next five
years during this era of fiscal austerity (at least in the US and UK)?
Kris
ps: speaking about restructuring, what happened to USC's Geog Dept?!
http://college.usc.edu/geography/
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