At Niagara College, sustainability means providing high-quality applied education and training that meets the needs of students, employees, and the communities in which we operate today, while protecting and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future.
As a postsecondary institution, Niagara College first made sustainability a key strategic priority in 2009 and has identified with the importance of reducing impacts on the environment. Niagara College’s definition of sustainability is based on the Bruntland Commission report, created by the United Nations (UN), Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future.
On Sept. 23, Niagara College welcomed the Honourable Mike Harris, Ontario’s Minister of Natural Resources, and Dawn Gallagher Murphy, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Natural Resources, to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus as the Ontario government announced a $5-million investment to help protect the province’s lands, lakes and rivers from phragmites, one of Ontario’s most harmful […]
This summer, NC’s Office of Sustainability opened a contest to name two of the many turtles that live on the Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Students and employees answered the call, and the community now has names for turtles that call its wetlands home: Miki (short for Mikinaak, Ojibwe for snapping turtle) and Fern. […]
