WASTE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES

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WASTE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES

• Presented
• By
• Godfrey A. Uzochukwu, PhD, Professor Director
• Patricia Price Lea, PhD, Associate Professor
  Dean
• Carolyn W. Meyers, PhD, Professor Provost
• North Carolina AT State University
• Greensboro, NC 27411
• (Affiliate Member of the National Council for
  Science and the Environment-NCSE)
• (2005 Environmental Health Conference)
  
• Environmental Health Perspectives on Water
  Quality and Quantity A Multidisciplinary
  Concern
• June 11-14, 2005
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Environmental health is a serious concern for
everyone. Toxic chemicals contaminate drinking
waters, build up in human organs and bones, and
become a time bomb that may trigger birth
defects, physical disabilities, mental
retardation, and canceryears after being
consumed. After a rain event, raw sewage flows
directly into creeks and streams and causes water
pollution. A chemical leak produces poisonous
gas clouds that pollute the air. Empty plastic
and glass bottles are breeding grounds for
mosquitoes. It is in response to this
environmental health crisis that the
Interdisciplinary Waste Management Institute was
established at North Carolina AT State
University.
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The Interdisciplinary Waste Management Institute
(WMI)

• The Waste Management Institute is an
  interdisciplinary unit with instruction, limited
  research and public service functions. The
  mission of the WMI is to enhance awareness of
  waste management issues and develop programs that
  protect the environment. The Council of
  Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) is a
  collaborating partner.

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The Council of Environmental Deans and Directors
(CEDD)

• The WMIs programs are strengthened through
  participation in the Council of Environmental
  Deans and Directors (CEDD). CEDD is a
  professional organization of over 110
  environmental leaders on the nations campuses
  that was launched formally in December 2001 by
  the National Council for Science and the
  Environment (NCSE). CEDD has emerged as the
  leading organization working to improve the
  quality, stature and effectiveness of
  interdisciplinary environmental programs on the
  nations campuses.
• CEDD helps individual schools improve their
  programs and also serves as a collective source
  for information, networking and guidance for the
  higher education community to meet the challenges
  of educating and training future environmental
  professionals, civic leaders and well-informed
  citizens. CEDD is eager to build ties with the
  schools of public health and the public health
  community.

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Committees
http//www.ncseonline.org/CEDD/
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• Because of the strong interdependencies
  between public health and the environment, there
  are many opportunities for collaboration between
  leaders of environmental programs and leaders of
  public health programs as well as between the
  Association of Schools of Public Health
  (ASPH) and CEDD/NCSE. This presentation
  is a first step in exploring these
  interdependencies and building collaborations.

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Interdisciplinary Academic Units of the WMI
The following academic units are participating in
the activities of the Waste Management Institute
at North Carolina AT State University
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Waste Management Certificate Programs
The WMI has unique interdisciplinary certificate
programs in Waste Management. The certificate
is open for all majors. A Waste Management
Certificate is awarded to undergraduate students
who have completed a minimum of 18 credit hours
of recommended waste management core courses
including a capstone seminar. An advanced
certificate is awarded to graduate students who
have completed a minimum of 6 hours of advanced
course work and 6 hours of thesis / project
including an advanced capstone seminar. The
Certificates in Waste Management complement the
students undergraduate and graduate training.
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Environmental/Waste Management Career Paths

• Major Career Path
• Education Majors Environmental
  Education
• Business Majors Environmental Business
• Economics Majors Environmental
  Economics
• Biology Majors Environmental Biology
• Chemistry Majors Environmental Chemistry
• Engineering Majors Environmental
  Engineering
• Journalism Environmental
  Journalism
• Communication Environmental
  Communication
• Political Science Majors Environmental
  Policy/Politics
• Psychology Majors Environmental
  Psychology
• Sociology Majors Environmental
  Sociology
• Nursing Majors Environmental
  Health/Occupational Safety
• Construction Management Majors
  Environmental Safety
• OSHA Majors Environmental Safety
• Mathematics Majors Environmental
  Mathematics/Statistics
• Physics Majors Environmental Physics
• Animal Science Majors Environmental Health
  and Science
• Landscape Architecture Environmental Design

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Junk Yard in a Minority Community
A local company wanted to get a special permit
from the Greensboro Zoning Commission to put a
junkyard (transfer station) next to the campus of
North Carolina AT State University (home for
10,300 students). The Chancellor of North
Carolina AT testified in opposition to the
special permit at the Greensboro Zoning
Commission meeting on May 9, 2005. The Junkyard
special permit was denied by the Zoning
Commission.
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Healthy Campus in a Minority Community
The Interdisciplinary Waste Management Institute
(WMI) collaborated with Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity Incorporated and cleaned a section of
the Buffalo Creek between Carver Hall and Aggie
Stadium on Saturday, April 9, 2005. Glass and
plastic bottles, cans, cups, rags, small engine,
baby car seat, etc., were removed from the creek.
Water borne and related diseases remain the most
important global sources of disease and illness.
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