NWF: Updated environmental report card knocks UNO off honor roll for campus sustainability - News
The report highlights concern over a lack of adequate education about sustainability. For instance, just over half of the colleges surveyed offer an undergraduate major or minor in environmental and sustainability studies, rather than the two-thirds surveyed in 2001.
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"The 2008 report finds that campus leaders value sustainability," Julian Keniry, NWF's senior director of campus and community leadership, said in a statement. "At the same time, the educational curricula to prepare students for a post-college world influenced by climate change are not keeping pace. On most campuses, the business leaders and facilities managers appear to be making greater strides towards sustainability than their faculty peers."
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Sounds like demand for those programs has been reduced. It would be interesing to know whether the reduced demand was from a lack of jobs in the field or a lack of interest in pursuing such careers.
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