Despite its campus sustainability efforts and new educational programs in environmental science and art, the University of Nevada, Reno was absent from Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges.
Aside from one very brief mention of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ participation in the U.S. Green Building Council, Nevada’s higher education institutions were seemingly non-existent in the guide. Both UNLV and UNR have student-led sustainable initiatives, as well as academic programs in environmental or conservation sciences.
The guide states, “We recognize there is a rising interest among students in attending colleges that practice, teach and support environmentally responsible choices. … That’s why, in this book, we take both a quantitative and qualitative look at a school’s sustainability efforts in areas we’ve identified as most important to students: 1) whether students have a campus quality of life that is both healthy and sustainable 2) how well a school is preparing students for employment in the green economy 3) how environmentally responsible a school’s policies are.” Data on each school was collected through surveys, of which 2000 schools participated.
Read the guide at http://bit.ly/K9BExr.