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President’s Climate Commitment Team
In an effort to ensure that the University stays true to this commitment, Fr.
Donohue assembled a President's Climate Commitment Team, which consists of a
variety of environmentally-minded faculty, staff and students from within the
Villanova University community.
Villanova Commitment to Sustainability
Committee
The Villanova Commitment to Sustainability Committee is a group of scholars and
staff, drawn together from across the campus, dedicated to enabling our yearlong
emphasis on Sustainability in our curriculum, practices, and research. The
committee has dedicated its efforts to bring together an integrated approach to
Sustainability-related education and research on campus, and initiate programs
to inculcate our students with a sense of environmental responsibility.
Villanova Environmental Group
Although the Villanova University Environmental Team includes students,
Villanova students have formed their own environmental group called the
Villanova Environmental Group (VEG).
Students can be a member of both the VQI Environmental Team and VEG at the same
time. To facilitate communication between the two groups, a member of VEG acts
as an ex-officio member of the VQI Environmental Team and vice-versa.
Villanova Ecological Society
The Ecological Society of
Villanova (ESV) is a student organization that focuses on ecology and
environmental science. ESV was founded in 1994 by undergraduate students
majoring in Biology. The organization continues to be supported administratively
by the Department of Biology but it is not restricted in membership: any
student, undergraduate or graduate, with interests in environmental problems and
the science of ecology is welcome to join.
Department of Geography and the Environment
Our Department of Geography and the Environment
constitutes an
administrative unit that offers undergraduate degrees in emerging and growing
fields. By its nature, this Department through its degree programs is
unique within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in that it truly
bridges and effectively integrates the social sciences and the natural/physical
sciences in ways that embrace the liberal arts tradition of the College and of
the University.
Environmental Leadership Learning Community
Environmental Leadership invites first-year students to live in a residential community
and share their class experience in the first year seminar course,
Augustine and Culture
Seminar (called ACS). Students attend a series of lectures, films, and/or
community service focused on environmental concerns and are taught by ACS
professors who are working together through their class material to focus on
issues of the environment as they relate to multiple aspects of scientific,
engineering, business, politics, activism, and religious thought of the ancient
and modern worlds.
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