Institutional Change and Campus Greening at Tulane University.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Aaron S. Allen, Associate Professor of Musicology and Director, Environment & Sustainability Program (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: A case study of Tulane University that examines the institutional change process is presented in this paper. Agents of change can use the examples and conclusions as a basis for making changes at any institution. The inability for Tulane to make the campus environmentally sustainable in terms of operations and education was due to the lack of an institutionalized internal lobbyist and leader dedicated to environmental issues. That argument is supported with a model for
institutional change, a historical analysis of nonenvironmental and environmental change initiatives at Tulane, a review of campus greening programs in institutions of higher education, and a series of interviews with Tulane students and employees. In the summer of 1999, as a result of an earlier version of this study,2 an Office of Environmental Affairs (OEA) was created according to the “Blueprint for a Green Tulane,” which outlined the steps necessary for institutional environmental change to occur. The central component of that change is leadership from the OEA’s Environmental Coordinator and from
students who will, in turn, carry their leadership beyond the campus to create a more sustainable world.
Institutional Change and Campus Greening at Tulane University.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- In Proceedings of a Conference on Sustainability of Wetlands and Water Resources, Oxford, Mississippi, May 23-26, 2000
- Language: English
- Date: 2000
- Keywords
- Tulane University, Institutional change, Sustainability, Green Campus