From Pomona
After examining information on more than 300 colleges and universities with the largest endowments in the U.S. and Canada, a nonprofit organization handed out just a few top marks to a handful of institutions -- including Pomona -- for their advances in sustainability in their campus operations and their financial practices. Pomona was the only Southern California school to earn an 'A' rating; USC got a C+, UCLA a B, Caltech a B, CalPoly a B+, Chapman a C-, Claremont McKenna a B-, Harvey Mudd a B-, Loyola a B-, Oxy a C, Pepperdine a B-, and Scripps a C-. The organization contacted schools and gathered data from them on topics like: their administration, food and recycling, climate change and energy, green building, student involvement, transportation, transparency of their endowment, investment priorities and shareholder engagement. The group said that schools continue to make advances in green concerns, despite the current economic downturn; it cites other organization's student surveys, in which young people said schools' sustainability policies and practices matter to them, for example, when they figure where they want to matriculate.
Pomona gets high marks in national survey on university, college sustainability issues
Click here for full information on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010
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