My column today [1] discusses how, according to The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges [2], the 37 colleges and universities listed below have an “environmental literacy requirement” for all students.
In the dorms, student groups enforce “green” behavior such as reducing one’s carbon footprint. “[The University of Maine’s] new student orientation includes sustainability programming, and Eco Reps in residence halls coordinate recycling programs and lead other environmental initiatives,” states the guide. At the University of Northern Iowa, “UNI Energy! is a student organization that energizes students in residence halls to calculate their carbon footprint and commit to reducing it,” it states.
My alma mater, Messiah College [3], makes it into the 286 Green Colleges list, but does not have a mandatory curriculum component.
Clicking on these links below will give you other examples of bias and discrimination, not limited to climate change, that AIA has uncovered on these campuses:
- Albion College
- Appalachian State University [4]
- Arizona State University [5]
- Ball State University [6]
- Brevard College
- California State University-Chico [7]
- California State University-Stanislaus
- California University of Pennsylvania
- Chatham University
- Clarkson University
- College of the Atlantic
- Eckerd College
- Furman University [8]
- Georgetown University [9]
- Georgia Institute of Technology [10]
- Goucher College
- Grand Valley State University
- Iona College
- Lafayette College [11]
- New England College
- Northeastern University [12]
- Northland College
- Prescott College
- State University of New York—College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Stetson University [13]
- Unity College
- University of Georgia [14]
- University of La Verne
- University of Maine [15]
- The University of Memphis [16]
- University of Northern Iowa [17]
- University of Rhode Island [18]
- University of South Florida [19]
- University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech [20])
- Warren Wilson College [21]
- West Virginia University [22]
Bethany Stotts is a staff writer at Accuracy in Academia [23].