How green is my campus?

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from the Detroit Metro Times:



How green is my campus?
Student dispatches from five area universities that gauge the new 'greening'

By Metro Times staff


How important are sustainability practices and environmental policies at a particular college or university to prospective students?

Well, if you believe the folks at the Princeton Review, the answer often is: very important.

For 19 years, the Princeton Review — those good folks who help you prep for the SAT and other such tests — has been publishing a guide to America's institutions of higher learning to help students select the school that's the best fit for them. This year, though, for the first time, the PR crew published a guide to the nation's greenest colleges.

Why?

Because many students, at least in part, are taking a school's green-ness into account when trying to decide where they'll go to get that degree.

In a survey of 16,000 college applicants, the Princeton Review reported that 66 percent of respondents said "they would value having information about a college's commitment to the environment." Of that group, 24 percent said a school's environmental policies and programs would "very much" affect their decision regarding which schools they would apply to or attend. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=15316