Chesapeake College’s CLEEn Project will continue to provide sufficient energy for the campus and help improve learning. By this fall semester the project will not have only improved the technology found on Chesapeake, but will also play another role in courses. The Center for Leadership in Environmental Education will continue the College’s vision of optimal experiences for its students, by being a power generating and teaching tool.
Since the construction of the windmill Chesapeake College has been pushing to have better alternative energy reducing technology. The windmill only feeds the Higher Educational Center on the Wye Mills campus, which is why it was only a step in the right direction. With the recent projects the College is continuing to push farther into having more renewable energy to reduce their carbon-footprint.
Chesapeake’s “CLEEn” Project is a proposition to the development and construction of a wind and solar education facility, CLEEn, on campus. It will model emerging renewable energy technologies while providing education and training opportunities for students and small businesses. Gregory Farley is the associate professor of biological science with the college’s CLEEn program.
Chesapeake, a leader in energy conservation and sustainability will promote CLEEn to expand their programs and experiences for students. As the campus continues to evolve future students and faculty will see the solar arrays, solar canopies, and maybe even something done to fix the campus’s south pond’s drainage issue. So far these actions are projected to save the college’s expenses to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The campus’s most recent and still under construction project the solar canopy will have a 250kw system over their newest parking lot. Another feature under the canopy will be ten ports where anyone can charge up their energy efficient and hybrid vehicles. It is meant to run off naturally, and efficiently.
Ideas for the future on campus are also in regards to integrating all of this into the classrooms. One idea was to teach and share Chesapeake’s technology so it can be applied outside the campus. Another was to even show the business side of this. Chesapeake College is even now updating other new technology on campus along with a new course update.
Chesapeake College’s Academic Support Center will be offering more technology, tutoring, and help for students at the Learning Resource Center and Technical Building this Fall semester. With the campus changing and getting more technology it really expresses how much they care about their students and their learning experience. With more learning opportunities, it also opens up more job/career opportunities.
The new technology being used ranges from the new iPads to nursing technology. The Academic Support Center, ASC, will be changing and improving their technology. The LRC, already has tutors embedded in classes, and improved their communication to students via online.
As of right now the school allows the iPads to be used for learning purposes. The iPad is part of the technology that will be embedded in the PASS MATH classes. It may seem that they’ll need to take time to figure out how they will make the technology work. Since there has been so much change in technology recently the PASS MATH courses are affected by it as well as others.
This may even impact students, if courses become unavailable due to the integration process time will be lost. However, for students wanting to continue their education new courses and technology will become available to further their education. As Chesapeake College updates their technology and uses more green energy they’ll provide a greater environment on campus, and become a place to look up to for those on the Eastern Shore.
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