The University of Massachusetts Boston prides itself on its accomplishments when it comes to sustainability. The school is built on a landfill site and sustainability has been integrated as a guiding principle in the development of the university (1). Green design has been integrated into the development of the university’s campus center building as well as the new buildings being constructed and renovations being done following the master plan. UMBe Green is the university’s sustainability program which centers itself on the four areas of recycling, education, sustainability, and practice in order to move forward with sustainability (2). UMass Boston has been awarded the “University Sustainability Award” and the Massachusetts ECO-Award for Excellence in Commuting Options for its efforts thus far by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2). Although the university has achieved some great goals there is always room for improvement. One problem that UMass Boston still faces on campus is energy consumption from light usage throughout the day. Though energy saving light bulbs are used throughout the campus, but the lights always seem to be on even when no one is in the classrooms or conference rooms. What UMass Boston should be addressing with this problem is what aspects of the building designs have to be changed, what has to be put into place in order to decrease the energy consumption from light usage on campus, and how this beneficial to the university.
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In recent years, Florida International University has been known to advocate and implement environmentally efficient solutions throughout its numerous campuses. The original home of FIU, the Modesto A. Maidique Campus was initially opened in 1969 with only a few buildings. As was typical of the time, most of the construction and systems in place were not environmentally conscious. Over the years, many buildings were added, and when it came time to create a new academic research building in February 2013, one of the goals was to try and obtain LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council by implementing a multitude of environmentally-responsible features.
Eastern Illinois University is situated in small town Charleston Illinois in the Midwest region of the United States. Eastern Illinois University was originally founded in 1895 as a teacher’s college and had only a 2-year degree for training teachers for the schools of East Central Illinois, it was known as “Eastern Illinois State Normal School.” “Eastern Illinois State Normal School” had its name changed two more times before finally becoming Eastern Illinois University in 1957. Eastern Illinois University held its first classes in 1899 with 18 faculty members and 125 students. Eastern Illinois University chose its mascot the Panther in 1930 after many years of being called the Blue and Gray.
In 2005, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) initiated the pursuit of Substantive Change from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) with the intent to initiate two advanced degree programs, the Doctor of Education (Ed.D) and the Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.). The administration of LMU, following Procedure One of the SACS Commission of College’s (SACSCOC) Substantive Change for Accredited Institutions Policy, provided a letter stating this intent on April 6, 2005 to the Executive Director of SACSCOC. Feasibility studies were conducted and both programs were recommended to the Board of Trustees. LMU submitted an Application for Member Institutions Seeking Accreditation at a More Advanced Degree Level, which requested both the programs be considered and the University move from Level IV to Level V in accreditation status. The following onsite, pre-accreditation team visited LMU in the fall of 2005 the decision was made to first pursue the D.O. degree program and postpone the Ed.D. Program. On October 2, 2006 SACSCOC officially received LMU’s application for a level change to establish a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree, submitted to the Compliance and Reports (C&R) Committee for review at their December meeting. A letter was sent to LMU on January 9, 2007 that stated “The Commission on Colleges awarded membership at Level V to offer the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree and authorized a Substantive Change Committee to visit the institution to review
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, the University of Phoenix was founded in 1976 and now has locations world-wide offering a variety of online degree programs. Its business programs have received high credentials from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE). Students at the Birmingham location have the option to earn Associate's, Bachelor's, and post-graduate degrees by taking business courses in several specialty areas focusing on business skills for the 21st Century workplace.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, is located in Santa Cruz, California. It is a public university with an average rate of student acceptance. The campus sits right next to the Pacific Ocean, so it is a great college for students who love the water. The college was established in 1965 and is one of the ten campuses that makes up the University of California system.
The University of Hawaii – Manoa was founded in 1907 and is the primary campus of the University of Hawaii System. This university is a popular academic destination of choice for students and faculty who want to live in an exotic location and take advantage of exclusive research opportunities. The University of Hawaii – Manoa is consistently ranked as one of the best educational values for students because of the quality programs and multicultural experience. The 320-acre University of Hawaii – Manoa is located outside of downtown Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu. There are over 150 undergraduate programs offered to students. The most popular majors include nursing, psychology, communications, accounting and tourism management. The universities’ most highly respected academic programs are marine biology and oceanography.
Loyola University of Maryland in the up and coming year is official welcoming an additional group of students that will participant along with class of 2021. This group of individual consist of 200 or so older adults. These adults are all over 70 years of age and are craving to be back in the classroom. The adults range from different medical backgrounds to different ages. Although this is a great campus, Loyola can make more improvements to accommodate their newest members of the Loyola community. With these new students is then must impact the dynamic of the residence halls, classrooms, support services, and everything that is given to the average aged undergrad college student. Loyola would also be able to supply the needs for the different types of aging such as normal and abnormal so everyone is given the same opportunities to excel. Changing the method Loyola has been accustomed to for years, this will create a positive image on older adults. Therefore, with Loyola allowing these individuals to attend and support their necessities, this then opens new doors to the older community and education.
There are three schools students may have an interest in, these colleges are: Cal Poly Pomona, San Diego State University, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The information a student could research are graduation rate, admission rate, jobs out of school, curriculum, greek life, and the student to faculty rate. With the curriculum set at each university, many courses are offered to potential students. After one earns a degree, based on a specific curriculum, schools try to help one student get a job once that pupil have graduated. In the upcoming paragraphs one student could participate on campus: the fun in engaging in greek life, or how in class, the student to faculty ratio may affect a student 's learning. By gathering information
The University of Texas at Austin claims that it has good justifications for its use of race in the admittance program. To provide evidence against Fisher’s claim of being unable to stand up to strict scrutiny, the University said that the Court had previously ruled that the “UT’s limited consideration or race was ‘necessary’ and narrowly tailored to UT’s compelling interest in achieving student body diversity” ("Brief of Respondents University," 2015). After Fisher’s case went to court the first time, the court was persuades that the need for having race as part of the holistic admittance program is not considered a quota because it “a search for students of unique talents and backgrounds who can enrich the diversity of the student body in distinct ways” ("Brief of Respondents University," 2015). The University conducted internal studies and was alarmed at the low rate of minorities attending classes, and is committed to improving the interracial relations by increasing diversity. The University believes that by promoting diversity it will break down long standing racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well as improving cross-racial understanding. They find that this is necessary because our society is still race conscious. Texas is in fact racially segregated within cities. I think that Santa Rosa may even have some segregation, with Roseland having a predominantly low-income Latino population the elementary schools are made up of entirely Latino children, and have poor
Please accept this personal statement as a part of my application for the doctoral program in criminal justice starting the fall semester of 2016. The University of Southern Mississippi is my ideal location for the achievement of a doctoral degree. I would like to demonstrate my knowledge, experience, and research ability in the field of criminal justice and correctional studies. Having majored in the discipline as a former graduate student, I want to further my education to assist and promote future changes in criminal justice and correctional policy. I am looking forward to the opportunities your program has to offer and I believe my background and perspective in criminal justice will help enrich the program, as well.
Net zero buildings essentially produce more energy than they use and would contribute to the sustainability goals in a positive way. For operations and maintenance, all trimmings need to be kept to be composted. There needs to be a schedule set in place of what maintenance is conducted and when so there is a clear system to keep the campus clean and working as efficiently as possible. Also, when it comes to maintenance both time and money should be dedicated to repairing items on campus rather than just buying something new as to reduce waste. All of the methods above will directly increase energy efficiency and decrease waste which will get ASU closer to its sustainability
I, Flora Ajayi, was dismissed from the Nursing program at The College of New Jersey due to my performance in Principles of Microbiology (BIO 144) and Anatomy & Physiology II (BIO 142 ), which are major Nursing prerequisites. I take responsibility for my academic progressions and understand the consequences and rewards of the Academic realm. The study habits that allowed me to flourish in high school, for example, studying class notes and reviewing a week before the exam, simply did not work in college. This forced me into a state of panic, which led me not to do well in both science classes. Studying effectively in college is different than studying in high school due to the rigor of the course and my attempt to process on a higher academic level. My inability to succeed in the sciences during my spring semester, despite my early success, has allowed for both personal growth and self-reflection while repeating BIO 144 and BIO 142.
The University of Southern California promotes five pillars for all of its students to embody: faithful, scholarly, skillful, courageous, and ambitious. Of these five traits, a student’s possession of courage will take him or her on the greatest path to success. USC relates the trait “courageous” to itself by proclaiming that students “are bold when faced with opportunities to contribute to USC’s continuous efforts to build a greater university for generations to come” (“Five Traits of a Trojan”). While this is true, this boldness is not necessarily shown immediately or developed overnight. In addition, it is true that USC being courageous will benefit USC for generations to come. Nevertheless, courage will also greatly benefit the
Using the process for significance determination it is clear which environmental aspects are affecting the University of Waterloo to an extent that action must be taken. The first activity that was looked at was buildings, equipment, lighting, and use devices across campus. The environmental aspect of this is the electricity used from the Ontario grid, which is approximated to be 95,000,000 kWh per year. It was concluded that this activity impacts the organization’s energy usage, and well as resource usage (Table 2). Taking this into consideration with questions for significance is when it was realized that the organization should take action. This is because the severity of this activity was rated a 3/5, the probability a 4/5, and the frequency a 5/5 (Table 2.1). This activity was given this ranking on the grounds that this activity is dramatically affecting the air quality, water quality, and impacting climate change. Also the organization can only control the usage of electricity so much as it is needed in the daily operations of the university. The university also cannot control of influence type or source of power generation. Due to this, the activity was given an overall ranking of 12. Following #4 from the process for significance determination any activity given a ranking of over 10 calls for action from the organization.
Green buildings could become one of the main factors to preserve our rapidly decaying environment. There is no easy way to define a green building, but a green building is essentially a structure that amplifies the positives and mitigates the negatives throughout the entire life cycle of the building (Kriss, 2014). There are many definitions for a green building, but all of them include the planning, designing, constructing, and operating of the building while taking into huge considerations of the energy use, water use, indoor air environment, materials used and the effect it has on the site the green building is being built on. The first green buildings dates back to as far as the 1970’s, when solar panels went from experiments to reality. Green buildings were not as popular as they are today due to their extremely high pricing. With technology rapidly growing, solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper, making the transition to creating green buildings more affordable. This is the primary reason for the increased growth of green buildings today. A modern company that is paving the way to the growth of green buildings named LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, focuses primarily on new and effective ideas for environmentally friendly buildings projects. With more than 60,000 commercial projects worldwide and 1.7 million square feet being certified every day, LEED is one of the leading groups for promoting green buildings. LEED has popularized the entire