by Kailey Schuyler | Nov 20, 2019 | News Slider, Opinion
Reducing plastic on college campuses has been a hot topic in Nashville ever since Vanderbilt completely eliminated single-use plastic on campus earlier this fall. So what is Lipscomb doing to eliminate plastic on campus? “To my knowledge at this point in time there really isn’t any initiative from the campus side or from the dining services side to try to work through eliminating or reducing plastic,” says Director of Dining Services, Wolcott Fairy. “At Vanderbilt, the initiative was driven primarily by the student groups. So as I was reading the article I could see that the students lobbied to the university, and the leadership groups, and was able to have them move into a direction that started with water bottles.” In the past, when students have tried to start initiatives they are quickly turned down. “In the past, the university did have recycling, but in the past couple of years those had been taken away,” says student Hannah Owens. “So one of my good friends and I reached out to an organization on campus to see if recycling could be brought back and to see why it was taken off-campus. They said no other part of the school was supporting recycling and it was too expensive for them. Now if you want to recycle you have to drive off campus, which is not convenient for students who do not have cars here.” SGA President Jack Weber is looking to start a formal recommendation process where SGA members can present a formal proposal to the Board of Trustees. “I think the thing on campus, in terms of what is going...
by Logan Butts | Aug 6, 2014 | News Slider
During their August board meeting, the Lipscomb University board of trustees approved two new colleges and a new graduate program. The College of Entertainment and Arts and the College of Computing and Information Technology will be bringing together existing programs to form two new colleges. The computing, informatics and information security programs will be coming together to form the College of Computing and Information Technology, while the College of Arts and Entertainment will consist of the classical art, music, theatre and film programs. The two new colleges will be joining the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Bible and Ministry, Business, Education, Engineering, Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Professional Studies, bringing the school’s total number of colleges to nine. Lipscomb is also launching a 27-month physician’s assistant master’s degree program. The program begins in January of 2015 and will include a 15-month clinical rotation. In addition to the two new colleges and new graduate program, the university also announced the formation of a new School of Public Policy and Civic Leadership. The school will offer the student a master’s degree in a number of areas of emphasis. Photo courtesy of Lipscomb...
