Virginia Wesleyan has been recognized locally, regionally and nationally with memberships in and honors by the organizations listed below.
Signatory of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment
President Billy Greer is one of more than 250 other college and university presidents in formally committing to sharply reduce and eventually eliminate all of the College's global warming emissions. President Greer also pledged to accelerate the research and educational efforts to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s climate. See news release.
Member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from every sector of the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. More than 9,000 member organizations and a network of 75 regional chapters are united to advance the USGBC’s core purpose of transforming the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.
Beech Forest is listed on the Council
of Independent Colleges’ site for the Historic campus Architecture
Project
The Beech Forest, an old-growth hardwood forest which gives
a glimpse into past forest conditions in the tidewater region,
is important to the history of the College because the land which
is now the campus was formerly a farm. Though in the course of
the construction of the campus the beech forest area was reduced,
recent construction plans have been modified so as to preserve the large
area remaining. It is several acres of mature hardwoods, with a very tall
canopy and an undisturbed understory, making it a sustainable ecological
system.