Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 71.02
Liaison Nathan King
Submission Date Oct. 15, 2014
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Virginia Tech
ER-10: Undergraduate Program in Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 John Randolph
Professor Emeritus
Urban Affairs and Planning
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Does the institution offer an undergraduate degree program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

The name of the sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program (1st program):
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy & Planning

The website URL for the program (1st program):
The name of the sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program (2nd program):
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

The website URL for the program (2nd program):
The name of the sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program (3rd program):
Bachelor of Science in Crop and Soils Environmental Science

The website URL for the program (3rd program):
The name and website URLs of all other sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program(s):

Bachelor of Science in Water: Resources, Policy, and Management

Water is the source of mounting pressures throughout the world. The prospect of water disputes increases as supplies become scarcer and more stressed. Some stressors, such as climate change, call for scientific understanding of the water cycle.

In addition, sustainable urban expansion requires an understanding of culture and society. Increasingly, solutions to sharing water require skills involving water science, policy, law, economics, management, and social science.

Virginia Tech is taking an interdisciplinary approach to meet the complex challenges of managing water by proposing a new bachelor of science degree that draws upon the resources of five of its colleges.

The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved the new water degree at its June 1-2 meeting; the proposal now goes to the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia for consideration. Virginia Tech expects to initiate the program in spring 2015 pending final approval.
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2014/06/060514-cnre-waterdegree.html

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture: http://archdesign.vt.edu/landscape-architecture/

There are many additional sustainability-focused and sustainability-related undergraduate degree programs. For a comprehensive listing of undergraduate sustainability courses and programs, please see: http://www.facilities.vt.edu/sustainability/courses_research.asp


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