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Campus Environmental Issues CommitteeApril 12, 2002
The committee discussed how best to implement the Talloires Declaration, deciding that the most important first step is to secure some funding to do so. To that end, Peter Vaughan brought in a grant application for a grant given by the Luce Foundation to colleges and universities to support environmental education and sustainability. He will talk to Al Romero and the Development Office and have a draft letter of interest for the grant by next Friday for review. The committee then discussed specific programs to be implemented under the Talloires Declaration that would require funding. These include the hiring of a campus environmental officer to oversee the Declaration, setting up an environmental education outreach program between Twin Cities public schools and Macalester's Ordway preserve, offering more paid internships with environmental organizations, and bringing in a consultant to analyze Macalester's environmental policy. Janet Ebaugh mentioned the possibility of teaming up with the Aldo Leopold foundation to broaden Macalester's focus on ecological literacy. Joel Creswell gave a synopsis of his meeting with President McPherson several weeks ago, and his meeting with Lin Aanonsen earlier that day, both of which were about the future of Environmental Studies at Macalester. The president is looking into ways that Macalester can make more efficient use of its faculty resources in order to better support interdisciplinary programs, such as Environmental Studies. Lin Aanonsen is the chair of the Academic Program Quality and Structure task force, and will discuss with that group possibilities such as committing specific numbers of faculty joint appointments to interdisciplinary programs, and working environmentalism into the mission statement of the college. |
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