But grades don't only go to students. They also go to entire schools.
greenreportcard.org rates college campuses according to their green sustainability - how well the school is doing at being eco-friendly.
It rates in the following areas:
Administration, Climate Change and Energy, Food and Recycling, Green Building, Student Involvement, Transportation, Endowment transparency, Investment Priorities, and Shareholder Engagement.
The website allows you to search for schools and compare them with other schools, assuming that students looking for colleges will want to consider how a potential college is doing green-wise, and make that a large part of their decision.
IUPUI isn't doing so well, but at least it's doing better this year than it was last year.
Although this is a good idea for a website and would be a useful resource for people trying to raise awareness about the environment, I don't think it is realistic for them to assume it is aimed at potential college students. Not very many people will base life-changing decisions about their education and future careers on how well a certain place is doing environmentally. There are a few, but not many. I think this website's main audience should be researchers and environmentalist propagandists.
Another good feature of this website is that it shows how well a school did the year before. It has a very nice layout and presents information quite simply.
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