2005 Action Plan - WSU
Campus & Community Ecology Project
The 2004 Action Plan for
the WSU Campus & Community Ecology Project is a working document
that will undergo changes and continue to evolve as additional planning
activities are completed by participating faculty, students, staff,
and administrators. Some of the primary goals for 2005 include:
- Increase
awareness by undergraduate and graduate students and their faculty
advisors for opportunities to participate in campus conservation and
research projects on WSU campuses and our surrounding communities.
- Expand communication on current ecology, environmental science, natural
resource science, and technology issues with the campus community
and public.
- Accomplish real conservation and ecological design projects
on real landscapes.
- Promote a healthy, positive dialogue at WSU and
in our communities about campus and urban ecology, infrastructure,
and future sustainability issues.
- Increase funding opportunities for
ecological and environmental research at Washington State University.
Major
Activities for 2005
To accomplish the above goals, the major
activities of the Campus & Community Ecology Project for 2005
include:
- Establish and operate a WSU Campus Ecology office staffed
by students and faculty.
- Host a campus-wide discussion of formulating
a "green campus" policy at WSU
- Coordinate activities of WSU students
participating in campus conservation and research projects.
- Expand
offerings of fact sheets, technical publications, and online workshops
available for the WSU community and public.
- Distribute periodic science
and education news stories through Ecology News, Restoration News,
and Wild News!! @ WSU.
- Operate the Native Plant & Landscape Restoration
Nursery, develop the Camas Garden as a botanical garden for teaching
and public display, and initiate a series of landscape design and
restoration projects implemented by students.
- Secure additional grants,
endowments, and other funding opportunities to build the Campus Ecology
project at Washington State University.
- Submit proposals for: LEV
(light electric vehicle) testing at WSU (see: The Segway Proposal
for WSU), undergraduate curriculum revisions in "Ecology & Conservation
Biology" and "Landscape & Restoration Ecology" to enhance ecological
literacy at WSU, and an east-campus conservation plan for the WSU
Pullman campus called "Time to Grow at WSU".
