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About ICCSN
What if each community in Illinois could access resources and advice on the technology and cost of going green? What if citizens, builders, laborers, and businesses could go to at least one trusted and reliable source for the most advanced practices for implementing green solutions and sustainable technologies?
Enter the Illinois Community College Sustainability Network (ICCSN or Network), helping every community member access the training and expertise needed to engage in the new energy economy by providing a network of sustainability centers at local community colleges across the state.
The goals of the Network are to:
- Collaborate to accelerate green jobs development.
- Model energy conservation and demonstrating renewable energy.
- Impact energy conservation by providing community education on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other sustainable technologies.
- Expand to cover the entire state by including all 48 community colleges in the Network.
- Provide a national leadership role in the new energy economy.
Illinois community colleges are ideally positioned to provide energy education to their communities. With a mission that emphasizes community service, combined with stable fiscal and educational infrastructures, community colleges can rapidly develop the new energy economy. Additionally, Illinois community colleges are already the number one, cost-effective educator that corporations and businesses turn to for energy-related fields such as industrial and electrical technology, construction trades, and automotive technology.
The ICCSN partnership with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity became the catalyst to create sustainability centers at Illinois community colleges, and the ICCSN colleges are now sharing programs, resources and expertise with each other.
For more information contact:
Bert Jacobson, Ph.D.
Dean for Sustainability and Planning
Kankakee Community College
815-802-8242
bjacobson@kcc.edu
Illinois Community College Sustainability Network Contacts (PDF)
ICCSN Progress Overview
For an overview and update on the progress
of the
Illinois Community College Sustainability
Network (ICCSN), view the presentation