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Catawba College: Ornithology & Preserved Wetlands

  • Catawba College (NC)

Dr. Joe Poston takes ornithology students for a walk in Catawba College's Fred Stanback Jr. Ecological preserve.


How To Accelerate Your Institution’s Scope 3 Emissions Reductions

  • Catawba College (NC)
  • AASHE (MA)
  • GreenPlaces (NC)

With campus leaders facing mounting pressure to reduce carbon emissions, many institutions are struggling to measure and manage scope 3 emissions. Data collection is highly manual, and many institutions simply …

  • Posted March 6, 2024
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Environment & Sustainability (Minor)

  • Catawba College (NC)

The Environment & Sustainability Minor exposes students to lab work, develops best practices in resource management, and cultivates environmental leadership skills. Minors are required to complete a course in environmental …

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environment & Sustainability - Sustainable Planning & Leadership (Bachelor)

  • Catawba College (NC)

The Sustainable Planning and Leadership concentration focuses on community and workplace leadership, driving interdisciplinary learning and application of socio-environmental issues through required coursework like Sustainable Planning and Design and an …

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environment & Sustainability - Natural Resource Management (Bachelor)

  • Catawba College (NC)

Course content in the Natural Resource Management Concentration focuses on conservation and resource management, with applicable skills for mapping and data work suited to these areas. As such, the concentration …

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Unanue Scholars Program: Improving College Access for Local Latina Students

  • Catawba College (NC)

The Unanue Scholars Program serves junior Latina students from public high schools in Rowan County, North Carolina. Recipients of the scholarship are provided with a cost-free course at Catawba College …


Radical Voices: How Students Want to Learn in a Crises World

  • Catawba College (NC)
  • University of Connecticut (CT)

This session shares experiences of students in higher education in an effort to provide a platform for the "radical" voices within the Academy. We use the term radical in a …

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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An ‘EDJI’ Conversation: Believing in Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion at Catawba College

  • Catawba College (NC)

Join co-chairs, Dr. ChaMarra Saner and Dr. Mercedes Quesada-Embid, in conversation for a podcast-style session centered on successful strategies, unanticipated accomplishments, systemic challenges, surprising opportunities, and mobilizing moments related to …

  • Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Advocacy for Justice: Classrooms, Colleagues and Community

  • Catawba College (NC)

This session will provide an opportunity for an in-depth and perceptive discussion surrounding the intersections of justice across the varied social landscapes within Higher Education. Connected to this is an …

  • Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Equity, Diversity, Justice, Inclusion Task Force, Catawba College

  • Catawba College (NC)

The Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion (EDJI) Task Force at Catawba College aims to build a campus community where all members thrive by working to cultivate critical conversations and practices …


Green Revolving Fund

  • Catawba College (NC)

The college created the Green Revolving Fund (GRF) to finance on-campus investments in clean energy and resource reduction. Catawba is one of dozens of institutions, mainly colleges and universities, in …


Project Green Step 2030: Catawba College Campus Solar Energy Installation

  • Catawba College (NC)

Catawba College completed a solar energy project in 2016 that is projected to produce more solar electricity than all the other North Carolina colleges and universities combined. This was the …


BS in Environment & Sustainability

  • Catawba College (NC)

Catawba College's B.S. in Environment & Sustainability offers value-added education that goes well beyond classroom teaching and provides many real-world opportunities for students. The College's 189-acre ecological preserve contains diverse …

  • Posted Aug. 19, 2016
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Plenary: Investing in Energy Efficiency through Green Revolving Funds

  • Agnes Scott College (GA)
  • Catawba College (NC)
  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)

An increasing number of colleges are establishing green revolving funds to tap into new sources of capital and scale up their institution's commitment to investing in reducing carbon emissions and …

  • Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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