{"id":10809,"date":"2022-03-16T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/hollins-edu-mag-dev\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2022-03-16T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:08:58","slug":"hollins-honors-as-tree-campus-higher-education-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/hollins-honors-as-tree-campus-higher-education-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollins Honored as Tree Campus Higher Education Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10813 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tree-campus_350x185.jpg\" alt=\"Tree Campus\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tree-campus_350x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/tree-campus_350x185-250x154.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Arbor Day Foundation has recognized Hollins University as a 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education institution.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2008, the program honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past year, many have been reminded of the importance of nature to our physical and mental health, &#8221; said Arbor Day Foundation President Dan Lambe. &#8220;[Hollins&#8217;] campus trees provide spaces of refuge and reflection to students, staff, faculty, and the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To obtain this distinction, Hollins met the five core standards for effective forest management, including establishment of a tree advisory committee, evidence of a campus tree care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for its campus tree program, an Arbor Day observance, and the sponsorship of student service learning projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your entire campus should be proud of this work and the leadership of [Assistant Professor of Biology] Elizabeth Gleim &#8217;06 and the committee,&#8221; Lambe noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arbor Day Foundation has recognized Hollins University as a 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education institution. Launched in 2008, the program honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_loop","category-homepage-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10817,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}