Last month, the University of Missouri-Kansas City joined a growing number of campuses in adding an environmental sustainability minor program.  The minor combines courses that relate to environmental preservation across various academic departments. Students will be required to do an internship through a community agency that works with sustainability issues or lead a campus or community greening project to complete the program.  
 
The program comes after concerted effort by UMKC students to green their school.  Thus far, they’ve started recycling and on-campus bicycle rental programs, assessed the school’s carbon footprint, planted a community garden and agreed to pay more fees to build an environmentally-friendly student union.
 
UMKC is now one of two schools in Missouri – the other Missouri Southern State University – to offer the program, which was modeled after similar ones at schools such as Arizona State University and the University of Maine.
 
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