The wave of greening Universities around the United States: case study at Tulane University (New Orleans) (2008)
- General information about Tulane University
- Its Office of environmental affairs
- The initiatives by the O.E.A
Tulane University is considered a sister school of Rice University. In fact, after the disastrous hurricane Katrina, many of Tulane students took up temporary residence at Rice University. The university was founded in 1834, initially only as a public medical college. Since then, Tulane University has expanded greatly to include a student body of approximately 10,500 students, 6,000 of which are undergraduate students. The campus sprawls across 110 acres of land in Uptown New Orleans. Tulane, one of the first private colleges in the South, is accustomed to being on the forefront of new progress on the University level. It is no surprise, then that the home of the "Green Wave" [Tulane's mascot] has also decided to join the wave of greening Universities around the United States. But how green is Tulane really? A secretary at the office of Environmental Affairs confided that before the late 1990's, the environmental policy for sustainability at Tulane was "virtually nonexistent". While Tulane's biggest efforts towards sustainability have only burgeoned in the last decade, the university's efforts to shout "Go Green!" along with "Go Green Wave!" seem promising.
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