Sustainability Student Groups and Career Info

A variety of student groups at Rowan are engaged in action on sustainability. A few highlights are below - get involved!

Rowan Environmental Action League (REAL): In addition to meetings, REAL hosts events such as campus clean ups, environmental-related trips, and our annual Clean the Stream and Earth Day events. We collaborate with other clubs on campus for certain events, such as ASCE and the Food Recovery Network. Most notably, we maintain a Community Garden located near the freshman dorms, where we grow food for anyone to take and to donate to the SHOP.

GEO Club: The Rowan GEO Club aims to build upon and enhance students' interest in our world and our relationship with it through hands-on activities, educational forums, career networking, and volunteer opportunities.

South Jersey Climate News: South Jersey Climate News is a collaborative journalism initiative that explores the effects of climate change on a local and regional level in southern New Jersey. The staff is composed of students from Rowan University and Atlantic Cape Community College.

Rowan University Student Planning Organization (RUSPO): We provide students with experiential learning opportunities, field trips, and professional networking to support student discovery and study of the community and environmental planning field.

Rowan YDSA Progressives Environmental Working Group: Rowan YDSA Progressives is student-run organization working to educate the student body of Rowan University on political, economic, and social issues from progressive perspectives. The environmental working group focuses on issues and campaigns related to sustainability and climate change.

Job Info & Internship Opportunities

You might know that there are more sustainability jobs than ever before. Environmental careers include everything from ecologists, geologists, and environmental scientists studying climate change to environmental lawyers and economists developing new policies; environmental artists, authors, and playwrights exploring humans' connections to the world around us; specialists and teachers in environmental education; computer scientists and engineers devising new technologies to reduce pollution; city and regional planners working to design a gentler future; and folks in all areas of business - from accounting and finance to managers and entrepreneurs - looking to make commerce more "green". We can help you develop the skills necessary for success in all of these areas, and more, at Rowan!

Learn more about green jobs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics' dedicated page, and read more about the evolution of the green economy in a recent report from the Brookings Foundation.

We've been proud to sponsor the National Wildlife Federation's EcoCareers conference, and made full access available for free for all Rowan students. Learn more about the EcoCareers conference. And of course, if you're studying sustainability at Rowan you can access the services of the Office of Career Advancement.

Rowan University is also part of the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability and proud to offer students the opportunity to participate in the PSE&G Institute for Sustainability Studies Green Teams internship program.