A “Greener” Student Move-Out

If you start planning now, you can organize a "green" move-out on your campus this spring - and your students will depart (forever, or just for the summer) with strong memories of being green. Writing in University Business magazine, Daniel H. Weiss, president of Lafayette College (PA) offers some practical advice on how to move your move-outs toward being more green:

Six local charities benefited, including a homeless shelter, a food pantry, and an animal shelter. This “green move-out” helped our neighbors and promoted positive town-gown relations—as well as saved us the costs of hauling these good items away as trash.

Lafayette junior Andrew Carlins says he “was inspired because the project seems like such a simple way to have a large positive impact. There just aren’t many greater opportunities for collecting donations than when students are moving out of college.” Senior Max Bass notes that the majority of donated items “were in extremely good condition.”