Vice Chancellor of Sustainability Don Boesch to meet with national ‘Green Campus’ leader

The Maryland Student Climate Coalition continues to spend the summer building relationships and creating strong coalitions to continue the campaign for USM carbon neutrality. Recently, Vice President of Education, Merrilee Harrigan at the Alliance to Save Energy has finalized plans to meet with Don Boesch, newly appointed Vice Chancellor of Sustainability to explore the implementation of the ‘Green Campus’ initiative in USM schools.

The Green Campus program, currently used in California system schools, works with students to save energy on campus by creating general and personal awareness, uses energy conservation in practice and by incorporation into classroom curricula, and implements projects around energy use, student purchasing decisions and USM and campus operational changes. The program, which has made California higher education institutes national leaders in environmental sustainability is a perfect fit for the USM, which is slowly stepping up and leading the east coast in the sustainability movement.

BREAKING NEWS: University accidentally releases social security numbers - News

BREAKING NEWS: University accidentally releases social security numbers - News

Nearly three weeks ago, social security numbers were inadvertently published on a mass-mailing for student parking permits. It is my understanding that students will be offered remedies, including credit monitoring services and insurance. A letter is to be sent to be in the mail to students by today.

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I am well into my first month as student regent and have developed this blog to better communicate with you, the students of USM institutions. I envision this blog being a center for students across the system to communicate about issues and concerns in order to mobilize and collectively act to make our collective experience better. If you are interested in becoming an author or have any other questions, please feel free to contact my be email (joshmichael@umbc.edu) or by cell phone (410-294-8581). Thanks for reading.