https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8 AWA2 en-us 2019-02-07 00:24:51 UTC 2019-02-07 00:55:20 UTC hello@padlet.com mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328548502 2019-02-07 00:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328548502 mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328548989  "These include “gender-neutral” campus housing for transgender students; patronizing women-owned businesses, and denouncing “white privilege” and police brutality." (Kersten). In it's 2020 Sustainability statement, USC does not acknowledge HOW they are going to overcome the social and political issues affiliated with campus sustainability. They simple state open-ended goals, with no tangible solutions

]]> 2019-02-07 00:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328548989 mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328549609 First Two Goals: "Develop degree programs that train students to be practitioners of sustainability studies and
science with a curriculum that embodies breadth and depth
"Develop excellence in research that includes cross-disciplinary studies, promotes competitiveness
in grant applications, and produces transformative findings" Where will they get the money to hire and train new professors for this, to develop new degree programs? Who will want to partake in these degree programs? ]]> 2019-02-07 00:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328549609 mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328549951 "Develop excellence in research"
"Engage the community"
"Encourage the development"
USC's goals are exceedingly ambitious, but they give little to no proof or description as to how they will actually achieve these goals. Their rhetoric is scholarly and exciting, yet their proof of as well as plan for success is greatly lacking. ]]> 2019-02-07 00:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328549951 mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328551199 "Beyond the classroom, students are pressured — often by paid student “eco-reps” — to conform the smallest details of their daily lives to the movement’s norms... which depict the American economy as a tool of greedy, ruthless capitalists" (Kersten).  
USC's exceedingly costly tuition as well as their infinite amount of donors shows how consumer-central they are. The 2020 goals seem like a way for them to show off and get more money rather than a way to actually promote sustainability.

]]> 2019-02-07 00:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328551199 mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328551944 "Eco-centricity is a fatal toxin, but it has an antidote: people. For campus sustainability to escape a death sentence, we must put people first" (Newport). 

Sustainability is only successful if each individual is willing to participate.  USC's goals are on the campus-wide level and shows no proof that each stressed and tired student will be willing to live sustainably on campus.  
" REDUCE THE NUMBER OF SINGLE OCCUPANCY
VEHICLES (SOVS) TRAVELING TO AND FROM THE USC
CAMPUSES" -USC
Will people actually be willing to take public transportation when they are already paying for a USC parking spot? Probably not.

]]> 2019-02-07 00:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328551944 mlewi https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328553199 USC's 2020 Sustainability goals are very broad and show now proof of success.  They have great goals, but no layout/ plan for how they will achieve these goals.  2020 is next year; will they be able to say that they have achieved these goals? Maybe they will find loopholes, but from personal experience, signs in dining halls saying "Sustainability is a work of art" is not going to do much. ]]> 2019-02-07 00:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mlewi/n0xlaq0s2dt8/wish/328553199