A Green College
Respecting Earth
All of us at Advanced Colleges of America respect our planet Earth, and the natural resources she provides us with. We’ve all been dreaming about paperless offices and having all records up and running on servers in the cloud but cost, culture and misinformation all contribute to the lack of 100% Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) implementation. However, the faculty, staff and students of Advanced Colleges of America have overcome most challenges, and moved towards becoming almost completely EDRMS dependent. Advanced Colleges of America is fully committed to decreasing the carbon footprint of our entire workforce, our student body and vendors, and to contributing to a world that is far more environmentally conscious, and mindful towards preserved planet Earth for our children. Reducing our carbon footprint can also be seen as reducing our energy and resource usage costs and thereby improving the efficiency and costs of managing our college. It is only a matter of time that government and large organizations will be requiring evidence of effective green strategies and practical steps to not only alter an organization’s behavior, but make considerable long term cost and efficiency savings that can be measured. However, as responsible citizens of the Earth, we at Advanced Colleges of America are committed to conducting business in a manner that manages environmental issues responsibly. We fulfill this commitment by:
> Complying with environmental regulations;
> Conducting operations in an environmentally sound manner;
> Applying the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle in all processes;
> Promoting environmental responsibility among our employees and students;
> Striving to ensure that suppliers agree to comply with environmental regulations;
> Securing hundreds of clinical sites across the United States, so that students would stay close to home and decrease travel times;
> Pursuing continuous improvement in our environmental performance;
> Clearly communicating ACA’s environmental policy, practices, and impact to interested parties.
