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  Academic Year 2006-07

Additions

  • Center for Research on Equity and Opportunity (11/27/2006)
  • Arizona Geochronology Center (04/02/2007)
  • Skin Cancer Institute in the Cancer Center, College of Medicine (05/14/2007)

  Academic Year 2005-06

Additions

  • William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government and Judicial Independence within the James E. Rogers College of Law (2-2-06)
  • Jack and Vivian Hanson Arizona Film Institute (12/02/05)
  • Department of Basic Medical Sciences – Phoenix for the College of Medicine/Phoenix Program (12/02/05)
  • Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute within the Arizona Research Laboratories (6/23/2006)
  • Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology, and Emergency Response (VIPER) Institute (6-21-2006)

Deletions

  • Arizona International College disestablished (8/15/2005)

  Academic Year 2004-05

Additions

  • Life and Planets Astrobiology Center (LAPLACE) (6/17/05)
  • College of Optical Sciences (4/28/05)

Deletions

  • Disestablishment of the Institute for Local Government and the transfer of the Southwest Leadership Program to the School of Public Administration and Policy in the Eller College of Management (4/28/05)
  • School of Health Professions disestablished (11-19-04)
  • School of Planning disestablished (8/20/04)
  • Disestablishment of the Humanities Program (10/01/04)

Reorganizations

  • Transfer of administrative reporting for the School of Planning from the Graduate College to the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences (8/20/04)

  Academic Year 2003-04

Deletions

  • Humanities Program (10/1/04)

Reorganizations

  • Transfer Gerontology Graduate Interdisciplinary Program to the College of Nursing. (04/07/2004)
  • Administrative transfer of the School of Planning to the Graduate College (6/19/03)

  Academic Year 2002-03

Additions

  • The Arizona Geriatric Education Center, a consortium among the Arizona Center on Aging and the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health (6/19/2003)
  • The Take Charge America Institute for Consumer Financial Education and Research in the School of Family & Consumer Sciences (6/19/2003)

  Academic Year 2001-02

Additions

  • The Arizona Center for Phytomedicine Research, in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology within the College of Pharmacy (11/29/01)

  Academic Year 2000-01

Additions

  • The Center on Impacts of Urban Development in Southern Arizona’s Desert Environment, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (01/26/01)
  • Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy, in the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (01/26/01)
  • Center for Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA), in the College of Engineering and Mines (01/26/01)
  • The Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation (ACIMS), in the College of Engineering and Mines (01/26/01)

Reorganizations

  • The Section on Emergency Medicine within the Department of Surgery, reorganized as the Department of Emergency Medicine within the College of Medicine (01/26/01)
  • The Department of Theatre Arts into the School of Theatre Arts, with three internal Divisions of Acting and Directing, Design and Technology, and Theatre Studies and Education (01/26/01)

  Academic Year 1999-00

Additions

  • In the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Center for Consciousness Studies (11/19/99)
  • The College of Public Health, with three internal Divisions of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Education and Social Sciences, and Community and Environmental Health Practice and Policy, newly established (1/20/00)
  • In the College of Fine Arts, the Institute for Innovation in String Music Teaching (1/20/00)
  • The Center for Gamma-Ray Imaging, in the College of Medicine (4/7/00)
  • The Southwest Regional Earth Sciences Applications Center, in the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (4/7/00)

Reorganizations

  • The Office of Government Programs reorganized as the Institute for Local Government (6/7/00)
  • The Department of Art, reorganized as the School of Art with three internal Divisions of Art Education, Art History, and Studio Art (6/29/00)

Deletions

  • Center for Excellence of Contamination/Defect Assessment and Control, in the College of Engineering and Mines (6/7/00)
  • Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, in the College of Science (6/7/00)
  • Environmental Radioisotope Center, in the College of Science. The activities of the center have been subsumed under the Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry. (6/7/00)

  Academic Year 1998-99

Additions

  • The Center for Advanced Traffic and Logistics Algorithms and Systems (ATLAS) (8/14/98)
  • The Center for Applied Sociology (4/15/99)

Reorganizations

  • The University Department of Biochemistry reorganized as a department within the College of Science (effective 7/1/98)
  • The Section of Orthopedic Surgery into the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, within the College of Medicine (5/21/99)
  • The Architecture Program, the Graduate Planning Program, and the Department of Landscape Architecture into the Schools of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, within the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (8/13/99)

  Academic Year 1997-98

Additions

  • The Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing (12/4/97)
  • Liver Research Institute established legislatively with JLBC budget line. Effective Spring 1997.

  Academic Year 1996-97

Additions

  • The Valley Fever Center for Excellence (8/20/96)
  • The Center for Low Power Electronics (9/26/96)
  • The Rombach Institute on Crime, Delinquency and Corrections (1/14/97)
  • The University of Arizona Prevention Center (4/24/97)
  • The Institute for Children, Youth and Families (5/30/97)

Reorganizations

  • Committee on Women's Studies reorganized into the Department of Women's Studies (2/13/97)

  Academic Year 1995-96

Additions

  • The Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics (1/11/96)
  • The Southwestern Center for Natural Products Research and Commercialization (5/16/96)

Reorganizations

  • The Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences (6/1/95; for details see Curriculum Bulletin 16:4)

  Academic Year 1994-95

Additions

  • The Institute for the Study of Planet Earth (9/9/94)
  • The Southwest Retail Center (4/27/95)

Deletions

  • The Department of Statistics in the College of Science (6/1/95)

Transfers

  • The Division of Medical Technology from the School of Health-Related Professions to the Office of the Vice Provost for Health Sciences (7/1/94) [Note: The medical technology major for the B.S. in Health Sciences degree remains under the authority of the School of Health-Related Professions.]
  • The Russian and Soviet Studies Committee from the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences to the Faculty of Humanities (7/1/94)
  • The African American Studies Committee from the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Studies to the Faculty of Humanities (10/3/94)
  • The School of Health-Related Professions from the Office of the Provost to the Office of the Vice Provost for Health Sciences. (10/27/94) [Note: The faculty responsible for the physical education major will remain in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences; the faculty for the exercise major will transfer to the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine; both majors ­ physical education and exercise science ­ will award the B.S. in Health Sciences degree which is under the authority of the School of Health-Related Professions.]

Mergers

  • The Department of Nuclear and Energy Engineering into the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (6/1/95)
  • The Environmental Research Laboratory with the Department of Soil and Water Science to form the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences (6/1/95)

  Academic Year 1993-94

Deletions

  • The Medieval Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Committee (4/18/94)
  • The Environment and Behavior Graduate Interdisciplinary Committee (4/18/94)
  • The History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Committee (4/18/94)

Transfers

  • The Division of Community and Environmental Health from the School of Health-Related Professions to the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine. (7/1/93) [Note: The health education major and the occupational safety and health major for the B.S. in Health Sciences degree remain under the authority of the School of Health-Related Professions.]

  Academic Year 1991-92

Reorganizations

  • The College of Education from divisions to departments with a corresponding change in the designations of unit administrators from division coordinators to department heads; and the division of Educational Foundations and Administration into two departments: the Department of Educational Psychology and the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education. (7/19/91)

  Academic Year 1987-88

Additions

  • The Karl Eller School of Management (9/12/87)
  • The School of Public Administration and Policy within the College of Business and Public Administration (1/16/88)

  Academic Year 1984-85

Transfers

  • The Department of Communication from the Faculty of Fine Arts to the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (5/31/85)

Mergers

  • The College of Engineering and the College of Mines to become the College of Engineering and Mines (5/31/85)

  Academic Year 1983-84

Mergers

  • The Department of Public Policy, Planning and Administration merged with the Department of Management to become the Department of Management and Policy (9/10/83)