Climate Change is something that no one person can take responsibility for. Rather, it is to the fault of many that our planet is now jeopardized. When looking at Oberlin College’s mission, I see them working hard to mitigate their impact and it is inspiring. They have decided to work toward a common end goal and participation is not just a handful, but an entire campus coming together for the common good. When I step back and look at our tri-campus community, it is easy to see that we are making progress, but we still have much to do in order to catch-up to this “role-model” campus. Oberlin College’s intention is to be carbon neutral by 2025; nearly 25 years before the Holy Cross Congregation and much of the world. They drafted their statement
The California Community Colleges (CCC) system is composed of 108 colleges organized into 72 districts that serve more than 1.4 million students statewide. Under the direction of the CCC board of governors, the Chancellor’s Office provides statewide guidance and leadership to the community colleges. In addition, the voters in each district elect a board of trustees charged with developing local policies that govern the day-to-day operations at the district’s colleges, including overseeing the compensation of teaching faculty and other employees. For the fall 1999 semester, the districts reported to the Chancellor’s Office a total population of 41,754 teaching faculty, of which 28,180 (67 percent) were classified as part-time and 13,574 (33
Bill McKibben's "The Environmental Issue from Hell" argues that climate change is a real and dire concern for humanity. His essay deals with the methods and persuasive arguments needed to spur American citizens and the government on to change to more eco-friendly choices. The arguments he proposes are based largely upon emotional appeals calling for empathy and shame, and examples of what in our daily lives is adding to the changes we're seeing in the climate.
Mount San Antonio College is a community college located in Los Angeles, County California. It has an enrollment size of 37,364 students and 12,597 full-time students (About us, 2016). Fifty-three percent of the Mt. SAC is female and 44% percent are male. With regards to demographics, 53% are Hispanic, 17.9% Asian, 13% Caucasian/Non-Hispanic, 4.2% African-American, 3.4% Filipino, 2.3% Multiethnic, and 0.2% percent are American Indian/Alaskan/Native. Lastly, with regards, to financial aid, 72% percent its student receives some form a financial aid.
The issue in modern day is how the Administrative Staff at HBCU’s can improve the experience of each student. HBCU’s have been in existence for almost two centuries now. Their mission is to educate African Americans. More than 50% of HBCU graduates start careers in teachers. But, HBCU’s have been facing challenges such as their decrease in diversity, financing, and retention rate which. In order to improve the overall experience for students while they matriculate through their college experience HBCU's must revamp the visitation policy.
This video successfully uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos to support its claims on climate change. The way National Geographic uses ethos, or credibility, for this video is strong and thought out. The main speaker is none other than Bill Nye, who most students grew up watching in elementary school; to learn different aspects of science; and is a very respectable and credible speaker for this topic, of climate change. Nye graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering, then moved to Seattle, Washington to work as an engineer for Boeing and ultimately became a science educator, winning educational awards for his famous program, “Bill Nye the Science Guy”(Biography.com). Nye has extremely credible credentials to be able to speak about this topic of science, who speaks in a serious, concerned and informative manner to grab the attention of the viewer and explain that climate change is a serious affair that needs to be acted upon.
Is climate change real? Are we at fault? Most of us don’t go to bed at night thinking about those questions, but, should we be thinking about those questions? Should we ask ourselves what we are doing to the planet we live on, also, what are we doing to this one body we are given or do we just turn the other cheek and ignore what going on around us? . Should we be blind to all the things going on environmentally, like we did years ago to slavery, or should we stand up and speak out in mass? This is the question that Sandra Steingraber an ecologist, mother, and cancer survivor ask us in her article for an online journal In These Times: Despair Not.
St. Petersburg College (SPC) is a large multi campus college that was found in 1927 as a private, nonprofit, two-year college. SPC started its school of nursing in the year 1956 and became the first community college in Florida that offered a three-year nursing program. In August of 2002, the college started offering baccalaureate programs leading to Bachelor’s degree in education, nursing and technology management. The College of Nursing (CON) received its first National League for Nursing (NLN) accreditation in December 1970 and since then the CON has maintained its NLN accreditation (St. Petersburg College [SPC], 2012). The CON offers four different nursing programs, namely; associate degree in nursing (A.S.), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to Registered Nurse (RN) transitional A.S. nursing
Needs: School Connectedness, Family Literacy, Family Engagement and Well-Being: Parents and Caregivers of Freire Wilmington students have few opportunities readily available in their communities to improve their knowledge and skills with regard to STEM, the Arts, Higher Education and Financial literacy- during the school year and in the summer. Parents and caregivers of Freire Wilmington students need opportunities to engage in STEM and Arts learning projects that can help them to develop a better understanding of the what their children are learning in school, and expose them to topics that can help them to prepare for future demands in their careers and higher education. Parents also need to develop a better understanding of higher education and what they can do to prepare themselves and their children to attend and succeed in college. Parents
Emory university offers opportunities for career advancement through quality education and community networking. Emory is home to renowned professors who are dedicated to the students’ success and growth. Emory provides its students with cutting-edge research opportunities in their perspective field. While researching, the students have access to the most advanced technology. At Emory, the opportunity to learn and grow as a student are not confined to the walls of a classroom nor lab. Emory's internships are a perfect example of interactive learning. Emory grants accessibility to places such as The Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Yerkes Primate Center, and the Carter Center. Emory creates well-rounded students by combining the in-class
I’ve learned that there are some barriers preventing William and Mary from being completely net-zero, but nevertheless, it is important to keep pushing until those barriers fall. In the meanwhile, I worked with the Carbon Offset program to try and get people to offset their carbon through donations that fund project. Reducing the college’s carbon footprint is one step closer to a sustainable college. Next, I work with the Green House Gas Audit to determine where most of the colleges CO2 emissions are coming from. With the audit, I can analyze the data and determine which areas need to focus on for projects in reducing CO2 emissions.
Although it is often a topic for contention in politics, global warming over the span of several decades, has led to climate change, which has had an alarming impact globally. Climate change needs to ...
"Tomorrow is the first day of what I will become." I wrote this in my diary the night before my first day of college. I was anxious as I imagined the stereotypical college room: intellectual students, in-depth discussions about neat stuff, and of course, a casual professor sporting the tweed jacket with leather elbows. I was also ill as I foresaw myself drowning in a murky pool of reading assignments and finals, hearing a deep, depressing voice ask "What can you do with your life?" Since then, I've settled comfortably into the college "scene" and have treated myself to the myth that I'll hear my calling someday, and that my future will introduce itself to me with a hardy handshake. I can't completely rid my conscience from reality, however. My university education and college experience has become a sort of fitful, and sleepless night, in which I have wonderful dreams and ideas, but when I awaken to apply these aspirations, reality sounds as a six thirty alarm and my dreams are forgotten.
Improving and maintaining the earth’s environment is becoming a more important task every day of our lives. Due to ignorance and frequent carelessness, this important task is quickly becoming a critical one. For this reason, I took it upon myself to construct a strategic plan to enlighten my peers to the problems of our environment. I did this in hopes that it would encourage everyone to act responsibly towards improving and maintaining the environment. With ongoing threats to the earth’s water supply, atmosphere, and surface, I found it necessary to devise a method of environmental enlightenment. I plan to apply this method at my place of academic study, The University. If supported by the faculty and staff and approached with confidence and determination by the student body, I am convinced that our environment on campus would undergo a drastic improvement.
Harvey Mudd’s general engineering major will prepare me to fill a similar role. At my sister’s college graduation, I spoke with a Clinic mentor who lauded the versatility of Harvey Mudd students. He was surprised that they they did not section off into mechanical or electrical, instead contributing to each component. Like these students, I wish to gather every possible tool, so I can easily collaborate with other fields and understand every strategy that could be used against climate change.
The first part of this essay discusses what the human species has done to deal with the problem of climate change. While some improvements have been made, the problem has not been addressed aggressively enough to stop the damage. What is amazing about this is the denial of so many people that problems exist. If they do realize the risks, they are simply not taking actions to contain the damage.