One of the keys to tapping opportunity lies with “energizing young people and young faculty,” computer sciences professor Paul Barford said.
“We have an unbelievable capacity to mobilize the young minds here,” Barford added.
How?
Susan Millar, a senior scientist in the School of Education, urged providing students an opportunity to learn leadership skills through an interdisciplinary effort to promote conservation and sustainability.
In addition to developing leadership skills, she said, their efforts to market conservation could result in campuswide energy savings.
Sheryl Taylor, a sophomore, also urged the campus to take steps to conserve and reduce its solid waste stream and raise parking prices to encourage the use of mass transit and eliminate the need for the campus to build more costly parking garages.