{"id":297349,"date":"2019-04-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=297349"},"modified":"2019-04-11T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T20:00:00","slug":"eight-university-presidents-commit-to-island-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/eight-university-presidents-commit-to-island-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight university presidents commit to island sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_297350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297350\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Eight-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-297350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Robert A. Underwood, president emeritus of University of Guam; Seok-eon Song, president of Jeju National University; Elsa Manarpaac, president of Western Philippines University; Frankie M. Eliptico, interim president, Northern Marianas College; Thomas W. Krise, president of the University of Guam; Theresa Koroivulaono, president of the College of the Marshall Islands; Mary A.Y. Okada, president of Guam Community College; Dale Webber, pro vice chancellor and principal, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus; and David Lassner, president, University of Hawaii. (University of Guam)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The presidents of eight island colleges and universities made several collective commitments toward sustainability Tuesday during a presidential summit prior to the start of the 10th University of Guam Conference on Island Sustainability at the Hyatt Regency Guam. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of our universities are uniquely well-suited to help society figure out how to meet the challenges that we\u2019re facing in terms of sustainability,\u201d said Thomas W. Krise, president of UOG. <\/p>\n<p>The leaders present for the summit were from the University of Guam, Guam Community College, Northern Marianas College, the College of the Marshall Islands, the University of Hawaii, Western Philippines University in Palawan, Jeju National University in South Korea, and the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. <\/p>\n<p>The university heads shared with one another the specific initiatives underway on their campuses to address sustainability issues\u2014including renewable energy, rainwater catchment, and transportation projects\u2014as well as the challenges in island sustainability that they continue to face, including waste reduction and food security. They then agreed upon the following list of commitments in terms of educational programming and university activity:<\/p>\n<p>Seek indigenous\/island solutions to island problems.<br \/>\nConnect heads of research with one another.<br \/>\nConnect heads of workforce development with one another.<br \/>\nCreate an inventory or website to connect best practices or solutions.<br \/>\nExchange visits among institutions to foster future exchanges of faculty, staff, and students <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversities were not built for themselves; they were built for their communities,\u201d said Dale Webber, pro vice chancellor and principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. \u201cWe are islands apart, but we are all in this together.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Conference on Island Sustainability officially kicked off Tuesday afternoon and will continue through Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>A complete agenda can be found at www.uog.edu\/cis2019\/. Several portions of the conference are free to the public, including the \u201cCIS Seed Talks: Ideas Worth Cultivating\u201d last night from 5:30pm to 7:30pm and the GAX Block Party from 6pm to 10pm today at the Guam Museum. <strong>(UOG)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidents of eight island colleges and universities made several collective commitments toward sustainability Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":297350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}