LTCC looking for community to define next 40 years
As Lake Tahoe Community College gears up to celebrate its 40th birthday it is taking the time to focus on what the college is and what it can become over the next 40 years.
The community is invited to a visions session to help define the college’s future, and by extension, the region’s future.
The event is June 8 from 8am-1pm in the college board room.
To RSVP to LTCC 2020 Vision, call (530) 541.4660, ext. 210 or email booth@ltcc.edu.
I would like to see LTCC offer more career-based environmental studies (leading to certificates and degrees in environmental technician and engineering). Sierra-Nevada is holding all the environmental sciences cards….
I think Lake Tahoe Community College’s growth from the grand vision(and very little else :) ) of a few dedicated educators and city officials to the 1st class facility we have today may be our greatest accomplishment as a community.
I hope achieving 4 yr. University status is a longer-term goal we can all support.
Irish Wahini is correct that Sierra Nevada College “holds all the cards” with respect to environmental sciences, but misses the mark as to ‘career-based’, as most of the positions here are filled by people who went to the myriad environmental science departments that populate the U.S. . . their Environmental Center (known alternatively as either TERC or TCES (TERC for UCDavis, TCES chosen by the school) offers a clue in its’ recent designation as one of ‘The Worlds’ Greenest Buildings'(by a book released in January 2013 of the same name, with a sub-title of “Promise vs. Performance in Sustainable Design”.
I worked with its’ author over the last year or so in providing energy data since the building opened, and earlier with the early design team in conceptualizing the facility, so my vote would be to do more in the sustainability/sustainable design categories, including as it does community building, built-in concerns for nature (or, the “world around us all”), great, workable designs that fit-in with the environmental needs in that same “world around us all” – fields that are not offered in any consequence anywhere else, especially a place so “marinated” in nature-loving as Tahoe. . .
A soon-to-be growing field versus one that will suffer the growing pains of change, as environmental science will inevitably. . .as its’ relevance shifts to concerns on nature’s design. . .
Irish Wahini is correct in that Sierra Nevada College “holds all the cards” in the environmental sciences arena – especially since they also have one of “The World’s Greenest Buildings” to teach it in. . .that is the title of a new book just released in January (actual title, with a subtitle of “Promise vs Performance in Sustainable Design”)
That holds a clue to my suggestion, but before that I will say that I worked with its’ author over the last year or so, in providing the energy data from the TERC (or, if you prefer, the college’s official title, TCES) since the day it opened. . .and TERC is by far one of the world’s most energy efficient (and comfortable).
My suggestion is not to be “me too” in the environmental science arena, as, for example, a lot of the agency positions here are occupied by ES graduates from a host of schools from around the country that have offered that specialty for years.
I would vote for a discipline in sustainability, sustainable design, and sustainable economic development, primed as they are to the world’s imminent changes: community capacity building, consonant with working with the world’s natural systems, not to denigrate them any further. . .
Tahoe is “marinated” in environmental care, but the world is still absent disciplines that specialize in future directions, not to replay the mistakes of the past, which subjects the human condition to too much keeping “in the dark” those directions that constitute real “community”. . .things that work well together, not just things to be studied and then politicized into non-existence. . .Tahoe can excel easily in that arena, given their ‘thin skin’ presence within nature. . .
Political (and other forms) Will will be necessary not to become merely a “me too” competing with another Basin (private) college, having their students compete with ours for a finite number of positions in environmental policy. . .