Elizabethtown College Awarded $1.2 Million Grant for Center for Equity and Sustainability in Engineering
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The partnership aims to close opportunity gaps for historically marginalized students and prepare next generation of engineersELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Elizabethtown College was awarded a $1.2 Million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch the Center for Equity and Sustainability in Engineering in partnership with the Greenway Institute, located in Vermont. Because historically marginalized groups, including communities of color and rural students, are often the first and most harmed by failures to think sustainably, the challenges of equity and sustainable engineering are one and the same," said grant co-PI Greenway Institute co-founder and former Secretary of Education of Vermont, Rebecca Holcombe.Elizabethtown College will offer ABET-accredited engineering courses through the GCES at a site in Vermont. The two institutions will partner with a vision to provide the best undergraduate engineering education in the country through a unique hands-on, immersive, sustainability and equity-focused education program that prepares future engineers to imagine, design, and build communities that are better for the people, the environment, and a vibrant economy. "Elizabethtown College and Greenway Institute have a longstanding relationship based upon past work and faculty engagement," Atwood said. Learn about Greenway Institute.Elizabethtown College, located in southcentral Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than 50 health, science, engineering, political science business, communications, fine art and music, humanities, and education degrees.