About
About
Welcome to the School of Earth & Environment
Rowan University’s School of Earth & Environment was created in 2015 to provide students with pathways into some of the most exciting and important careers in the modern workforce, to gather outstanding faculty who are globally recognized leaders in their fields, and to welcome non-academics into our community.
Come explore with us, in the School of Earth & Environment.
School mission
The School of Earth & Environment is dedicated to seeking solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental problems while providing opportunities for our students to become part of the solution and advance their careers in growing fields. The School is dedicated to disseminating information about our planet through teaching and publishing while catalyzing change towards a more sustainable future.
The school is organized around key topics:
1) The Climate Crisis
2) The Biodiversity Crisis
3) The challenges of urbanization & regenerative growth
4) Big Picture perspective—using both deep time and deep space to contextualize our present and inform our choices
We value individuals
A diverse workforce is needed to address the environmental challenges that confront humanity. Thus, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are essential to achieve our mission. By creating an environment in the School that encourages students to bring their whole identity into learning, we help students thrive as they advance their careers and work toward our shared goals.
We value the land
Rowan University's campuses were built on Lenapehoking, the ancestral lands of the Naticoke Lenni-Lenape tribal nation. We acknowledge the history of genocide, forced displacement, and cultural erasure carried out against the Indigenous people of our region, and we celebrate the vibrance, persistance, and ongoing project of sovereignity of the Lenni-Lenape people today.
The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation's Public Land Acknowledgement
"The land upon which we gather is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape called 'Lenapehoking'. The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with this territory. In our acknowledgement of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the Indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, 'as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine'."