American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment Signs Its First Big 10 School

"In December, The Chronicle ran a story about the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, which included a box on four institutions that, so far, had refused to sign. *** It seemed that Robert H. Bruininks, the university president, would never sign. Yet on January 8, Mr. Bruininks added the University of Minnesota system to the list of signatories, making Minnesota the first Big 10 university to commit. He did so without a lot of fanfare. Although student groups celebrated the signing, the university never even issued a news release about it."

Related ... This coming October 22, SCUP will continue its commitment to integrated planning in the service of campus sustainability, when hundreds of campuses celebrate the Sixth Annual Campus Sustainability Day. In order to help your campus plan its event for this October (and also to pilot the use of "niche" social networking functionality), SCUP has created a Campus Sustainability Planning Network, which you are invited to view, join, and become active within. You will learn more than about campus sustainability.