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The Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility states, “I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work.” Students define for themselves what it means to be socially and environmentally responsible.
Students at over a hundred colleges and universities are using the pledge at some level. Graduates who voluntarily signed the pledge have turned down jobs with which they did not feel comfortable and have worked to make changes once on the job. For example, they have promoted recycling at their organization, removed racist language from a training manual, worked for gender parity in high school athletics, and helped to convince an employer to refuse a chemical weapons-related contract.
If you are already part of our network, thank you for all the work you do. If you would like to get the Pledge going at your institution, please contact Steve Masters at: smasters@bentley.edu
Also contact Boyd.Yarbrough@Furman.edu or www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability about a similar First Year Pledge for those entering school.
Other activities of the Bentley Alliance include:
MakeTIAA-CREFethical.org. Working to make educational pension giant TIAA-CREF more socially responsible in its policies.
National Index of Violence and Harm http://www.manchester.edu/links/violenceindex/ The goals of this project are to quantify levels of violence and harm done to people in the United States and identify trends over time.
