Community Colleges Start a Site to Collaborate on Green Jobs

Denver—Annual meetings are always ripe opportunities to announce new initiatives and projects. One of the first official announcements to come out of the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education was one about an online resource for community colleges.

The SEED Center—which stands for Sustainability Education and Economic Development—will serve as a place where administrators and faculty members from community colleges can trade tips, materials, and curricula in green-jobs programs through databases, a wiki, and discussion boards.

The American Association of Community Colleges worked with EcoAmerica, a nonprofit devoted to environmental marketing efforts, to build the site. Representatives of EcoAmerica said the SEED Center was needed because the community-college sector had been far too decentralized for faculty members to collaborate effectively across institutions.