Virginia Wesleyan College is not just talking about the importance of sustainability issues – the College is actively greening its campus and taking action to become a more environmentally-friendly place.
Just driving on campus, you get the feeling that the environmental is important to Virginia Wesleyan with its wide-open spaces, green fields, wild flowers, and bluebird and bat boxes for nesting. It’s not uncommon to see a family of raccoons or Canadian Geese making themselves at home on campus.
With the creation of the President’s Environmental Issues Council (PEIC) came the development of a more aggressive campus recycling program and the refinement of campus building and business policies and procedures. In conducting campus audits, the PEIC found that the College had already been environmentally conscious in many areas.