MSIs To Get New Help in Going ‘Green’: A new grant to the United Negro College Fund should help a cross-section of minority-serving institutions - including Hispanic-serving universities and tribal colleges - promote environmentally friendly building practices in the years ahead.
The $1.8 million grant from The Kresge Foundation will go to UNCF for the Building Green at Minority-Serving Institutions Initiative. The chief goals are to build knowledge and capacity so these under-resourced colleges and universities can build faculty expertise and develop more sustainable, energy-efficient facilities.
The goal is for MSIs to build 'better, smarter, more intelligent' buildings, said William F.L. Moses, program director at the foundation. While environmentally friendly, such buildings also can reduce long-term operating costs by up to 50 percent through less use of electricity and water.
'Minority-serving institutions want and need to become as green as possible as fast as possible,' said Michael Lomax, UNCF president and chief executive officer.
