The UC and CSU systems track their emissions. California Community College System does not. Good article. https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2024/03/california-colleges-decarbonization-2045/
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2023-11-14 Amsec, Gary Lorenz, John Darjany – history of campus card
I finally found a bit of history about Gary Lorenz. He and I were high school friends. In 1972 he and John Darjany founded a company, Amsec, to make a “campus card system” for California Polytechnic University, Pomona. In 1974, Amsec was purchased by R.D. Products. A brief history of the campus card industry This
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2023-10-22 Do-it-yourself Power Strips – True Story
We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add/drop classes area every semester,
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2023-10-01 Parking Lots Becoming As Important As Cars In Climate Change Efforts
That’s what I was saying to the guys at our computer Club meeting today. The cities and educational institutions should be putting canopies covered with solar panels over their parking spaces, and solar panels on their roofs. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/03/parking-lots-becoming-as-important-as-cars-in-climate-change-efforts.html
2023-09-27 Hard Disk Drives – A Hundred Plus Disassembled
Pozi-drive – Is that what they call them? Maybe this will bring back memories. I was waiting in the checkout line at the computer store and saw a kit of, I don’t know, maybe a hundred different screwdriver bits and a cheap handle. None of them come with documentation, but the tips are there for
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2023-09-16 Dr. Tyson On Student Debt
Some small amount of debt might be acceptable, such as credit cards. But the student debt os far too onerous and is outright economic slavery. So I don’t agree fully.
2023-08-17 Florida Legislation Will Limit The Student Vote
After the 2020 election all these restrictions started being passed by the mostly Republican legislatures. What has happened in the last few years? Haven’t they been challenged in courts and found to be a violation of free speech? All these ‘agenda’ laws got passed and analysis shows that they don’t meet the criteria of serving
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2023-07-14 GOP War On College Campuses
Manufactured outrage Ideologues hyperpartisan Reactionary kickback Anti-CRT Anti-Critical Race Theory “”There _is_ a crisis in free speech and academic freedom in publicly funded education, and the crisis is not coddled undergraduate students. It’s increasing political interference with what should be free, relatively self-governing academic affairs. As I mentioned in the book, for years, the Goldwater
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2023-06-29 Racial Quotas In Education Admissions
I thought about this in the past, and it made sense to me that when there are inequalities in a system affecting human rights, the system should be able to make modifications to reduce the inequalities. For instance, if the percentage of a race is over- or underrepresented in the higher education system, then it’s
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2021-07-28 New Johnson Campus Center Reopening
2021-07-27 — I went to Santa Ana College this afternoon to the Grand Reopening of the new Johnson Student Center. Beautiful 63,600 sq. ft. building, cost $60 million. I started working at SAC when they were building the original Johnson Center which then opened in 1981. So from ’81 to 2015(? A year or so
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