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Bunker Hill Community College Receives National Award for Climate Leadership

The College received the Climate Leadership Award from Second Nature, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to making sustainable living the foundation of all learning and practice in higher education. Second Nature collaborates closely with the ACUPCC, a network of 677 signatory institutions of higher education, which aims at neutralizing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting the sustainability efforts of higher education.

BHCC won recognition for its leadership in promoting sustainability through various initiatives:

    --  Establishment of "college-wide sustainability initiatives," as a major
        College goal for 2010-2013.
    --  The Board of Trustees' advocacy for sustainability and presentation on
        the College's Climate Action Planning at the 2010  conference of the
        Association of Community College Trustees.
    --  The establishment, by President Fifield, of a cabinet-level position of
        Director of Sustainability, held by Paul Wolff III.
    --  Focus at the College's large-scale professional development days on
        sustainability, with participation from leading experts in the field.
    --  Offering 12 sustainability mini-grants (2010-2011 academic year) to
        faculty and staff for the development of new courses such as
        "Sustainability in Statistics."
    --  A new campus Urban Organic Garden Project, with individual plots
        cultivated by diverse stakeholders such as the Office of Community
        Engagement and the Veterans Center, which increases awareness of
        sustainable agricultural practices.
    --  A new sustainability website (www.bhcc.mass.edu/Sustainability), which
        features the work of the President's Climate Commitment and
        Sustainability Committee.

CONTACT: Colleen Roach, Executive Director of Communications & MarketingBunker Hill Community College250 New Rutherford Avenue; Boston, MA 02129Phone: (617) 228 2177; Email: caroach@bhcc.mass.edu

Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls more than 12,700 students on two campuses and at four satellite locations. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in Massachusetts. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of BHCC's students are women. The College also enrolls more than 700 international students who come from more than 90 countries and speak 75 different languages.

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