[Greenbuilding] Greenbuilding and Univ of Michigan?

[Rob Tom]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:22:53 -0400, John E. Beeson  
<jbeeson at quinnevans.com> wrote:

> but if you are looking for
> Green building or education in any related field, look somewhere else
> and don't waste your money.

> but had I gone back to school and covered everything I covered
> at UofM AND all the green stuff, I would be better off.....


I'm not sure if this is a reasonable complaint, whether it be WRT  U. of  
Mich. or any school of design.

At my school ( Architecture, U. of Waterloo, Ontario), we were never given  
any formal training in draughting (you know, that quaint thing people did  
with pens and pencils in the days before mice) ... and CAD training was a  
"bird course" elective that garnered very little interest ... which might  
seem odd (if not outrageous) to anyone from a Murrican school of  
Architecture.

But if you scratch any of the top architectural firms anywhere on this  
planet, chances are pretty good that you will find someone from UniWat's  
School of Arch there.

The job of a good school is not to plug any particular "stuff" (Green or  
otherwise).
Its job is to teach its students the ability to master critical thinking.

It is then the students' responsibility to acquire mastery of the "Green  
stuff" on their own, making use of the vast interdisciplinary resources  
available to one whose job title is "student".

That being said, I recall the "usually dour" Bion Howard (a former  
contributor to this List in the early days  http://www.energybuilder.com )  
giving top Green marks to his alma mater, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison.

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