Whitmore aid attempts to bring sustainability to SJSU campus
My Nguyen
Issue date: 9/15/09 Section: News
President Jon Whitmore has appointed Associate Professor Katherine Cushing to be a director of sustainability and special assistant to the president.
Last year, the Academic Senate created a University Sustainability Task Force, headed by Dean Michael Parrish.
"One main recommendation given to the university was to create a director of sustainability," Cushing said.
President Jon Whitmore has been an advocate for campus sustainability since he came to SJSU a year ago, said Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations at SJSU.
"He wanted to make sustainability a high priority," she said. "He wanted someone to report to him about sustainability on campus."
Whitmore said he appointed Cushing because of her background and experience as well as her passion for sustainability.
"She has a real passion for this," Whitmore said. "It's a kind of thing you think about 24 hours a day not just eight to five, and she's well-respected as a faculty member and as a member of the sustainability committee."
Cushing was also a major player on the Sustainability Task Force, with a background at Stanford and connections with Berkeley, Whitmore said.
Cushing said she decided to take the position because she wanted to educate people on sustainability on a university level instead of a departmental one.
"One of our goals for State is to be a regional leader in sustainability," Cushing said.
Gary Klee, an environmental studies professor, was on the hiring committee along with Lynne Trulio and Rachel O'Malley, who hired Cushing as an assistant professor for the department of environmental studies.
"[She was] an immediate choice," Klee said. "No questions asked."
Klee said having a campus sustainability director is important, because university campuses have been operating without really being conscious of the diminishing supplies of water, fossil fuels and other natural resources.
"[Cushing's] got so much energy," Klee said. "She has so many great ideas. She's the perfect person for the job."
Last year, the Academic Senate created a University Sustainability Task Force, headed by Dean Michael Parrish.
"One main recommendation given to the university was to create a director of sustainability," Cushing said.
President Jon Whitmore has been an advocate for campus sustainability since he came to SJSU a year ago, said Pat Lopes Harris, director of media relations at SJSU.
"He wanted to make sustainability a high priority," she said. "He wanted someone to report to him about sustainability on campus."
Whitmore said he appointed Cushing because of her background and experience as well as her passion for sustainability.
"She has a real passion for this," Whitmore said. "It's a kind of thing you think about 24 hours a day not just eight to five, and she's well-respected as a faculty member and as a member of the sustainability committee."
Cushing was also a major player on the Sustainability Task Force, with a background at Stanford and connections with Berkeley, Whitmore said.
Cushing said she decided to take the position because she wanted to educate people on sustainability on a university level instead of a departmental one.
"One of our goals for State is to be a regional leader in sustainability," Cushing said.
Gary Klee, an environmental studies professor, was on the hiring committee along with Lynne Trulio and Rachel O'Malley, who hired Cushing as an assistant professor for the department of environmental studies.
"[She was] an immediate choice," Klee said. "No questions asked."
Klee said having a campus sustainability director is important, because university campuses have been operating without really being conscious of the diminishing supplies of water, fossil fuels and other natural resources.
"[Cushing's] got so much energy," Klee said. "She has so many great ideas. She's the perfect person for the job."
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neil signo
posted 9/16/09 @ 12:36 AM PST
so what your tell me is to keep the school up and running.
but really?
I paid to watch and learn how '2 + y' is '2xy' on the next line in Calculus with Analytic Geomtery and Physics 50. (Continued…)
neil_signo@yahoo.com
posted 9/20/09 @ 8:57 PM PST
Cheap is cheap, but ripping of students?
The teacher offered to write letters to parents. What the math department did to those foldup envelops with international stamps 100 pack? I wrote my address on it, so the teacher took more than a few and wrote other students! Some went to my parents to Phillippines!
And the other times you turned in a floppy disc, and the teacher never returned it, where did they go? They were sold in the computer lab or used by Math and CS teachers! Free Bee! Floppy disc back then were $25. (Continued…)
Greg
posted 9/22/09 @ 10:58 AM PST
Wow. "Whitmore aide" not "Whitmore aid." I'm an engineering student and I could even figure that one out.
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