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CSU collaborates with Japan universities
Elyse Jarvis
Issue date: 12/5/08 Section: News
Thomas Hadley, director of finance and strategic services for the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, said mutually beneficial partnerships overseas will allow the university further funding, to come from enhanced opportunities for research grants, international contracts for services and additional openings in the professional masters program.
"With an increasingly tight budget, (CSU) is looking at unique opportunities to diversify the funding base to help offset educational costs and to provide offsets to increasing demand for students in very specific areas," Hadley said.
Those areas, he said, include food safety and water research.
"As the 'Go Green' university plan has unfolded and this whole thought process has taken hold, we're really saying, 'Well, this is what we do, and it's our time,'" Hanneman said, referring to CSU's already-established research in water management and infectious disease testing.
"It's a great opportunity for us to have these partners globally and to really expand what we do beyond our borders," he said.
Frank said last week that from this point on, the university will formalize the steps already taken with China and Japan to ensure that exchange programs will allow student credits to transfer easily.
Federal funds were used to pay for the trip, which cost about $4,500 for each of the CSU team's six travelers in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, said Dell Rae Mollenberg, university spokesperson. She said cost estimates for the seven other employees who traveled, including Frank, were not available but that no state or tuition money was used.
News Managing Editor Elyse Jarvis can be reached at news@collegian.com.
"With an increasingly tight budget, (CSU) is looking at unique opportunities to diversify the funding base to help offset educational costs and to provide offsets to increasing demand for students in very specific areas," Hadley said.
Those areas, he said, include food safety and water research.
"As the 'Go Green' university plan has unfolded and this whole thought process has taken hold, we're really saying, 'Well, this is what we do, and it's our time,'" Hanneman said, referring to CSU's already-established research in water management and infectious disease testing.
"It's a great opportunity for us to have these partners globally and to really expand what we do beyond our borders," he said.
Frank said last week that from this point on, the university will formalize the steps already taken with China and Japan to ensure that exchange programs will allow student credits to transfer easily.
Federal funds were used to pay for the trip, which cost about $4,500 for each of the CSU team's six travelers in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, said Dell Rae Mollenberg, university spokesperson. She said cost estimates for the seven other employees who traveled, including Frank, were not available but that no state or tuition money was used.
News Managing Editor Elyse Jarvis can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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