Curriculum
- Environmental Studies Major, featuring the Creative Field Studies Program—encouraging local and international artists, students, and faculty from different disciplines to creatively represent natural resources and environmental issues.
- It is possible to design your own major at Hiram. Some students have used that opportunity to combine Environmental Studies work with Journalism, Ethics, and Public Policy.
Administrative Committees
- The Sustainability Committee—Contact Steve Zabor, zaborsl@hiram.edu
- The Field Station Committee—The James H. Barrow Field Station was established in 1967 to provide Hiram College students the opportunity to supplement classroom activities with hands-on learning experiences. Over the last 32 years, the Station has grown and developed into an active research and educational facility that not only enhances the College’s science and environmental studies programs, but also provides a means for the general public to increase their understanding and appreciation of Ohio natural history. Contact Matt Hils hilsmh@hiram.edu
- A committee that is currently working on a land management project for recently acquired land
Green Building
- The new dorm on campus (now under construction) will be a green building.
Energy
- The administration is currently considering the installment of a wind turbine on top of the community’s cell tower.
Food
- The Stone Soup Co-op is a food co-op with 55 members. They are beginning a broad local foods initiative this season including out of season preservation and storage.
- AVI Dining Services has committed to 30% local foods.
- A local food buyer co-op for village residents may begin this fall.
Transportation
- This coming year Hiram will be trying out a new bio-fuels fleet of College vans.
- Community Bikes is a sub-program of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) that started 5 years ago. They take in donated or broken bikes, fix them up, paint them yellow, and distribute them around camps so that anyone can use them!
Recycling
- Recycling exists across campus, both in the dorms and outdoors.
Events
- SEAC sale (of previous year’s student waste—couches, lamps, etc.)
- Regular community share events
- Earth Day
Contact
- Katey Lauer, student activist, lauerkj@my.hiram.edu, 412-600-3655
- Steve Zabor, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, zaborsl@hiram.edu
Student Groups
- Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)—The Student Environmental Action Coalition is a group dedicated to preserving the environment on both local and global levels. This group is very open to ideas from members; past activities have included anti-Mountain Top Removal work, recycling projects, a Tampaction campaign, recycled notebook making, lobbying, trips to environmental conferences, volunteering in coalfield communities, helping to establish a Heifer classroom, coordinating speakers and events, and much more.
- Community Share—A program that attempts to build relationships between Hiram College students and Hiram Village residents through the sharing of knowledge, resources, and collective labor in order to foster a socially and environmentally sustainable community. In collaboration with the Hiram’s Community Service Office, Hiram’s SEAC chapter, village residents, and members of the Hiram Christian Church, Community Share facilitates monthly workshops along with a vermi-composting Program, a Free Store, the Community Bikes program, an Unusual Recycling Program, and several other activities.
Has the President of the College signed the American College and University President’s Climate Commitment?
Yes
