Recently, Mark James retired from his position as chancellor of Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri. While overseeing the college, Mark James helped integrate the five campuses and drive innovation.
In addition, Metropolitan Community College undertook an initiative to install solar panels during his tenure. Since summer 2015, 18 buildings on three different campuses installed solar panels.
While students cannot easily see the solar panels, they can follow the amount of energy they are producing through an online tool at www.MCCKC.edu/Solar-Panels. From this website, individuals can choose the MCC-Maple Woods, MCC-Business & Technology, or the MCC-Penn Valley campuses to see exactly how much energy the solar panels have produced. Using the menu, individuals can specify a time period and see how much energy has been produced in kilowatt-hours.
The program also shows how many single-family homes this energy could power and equates the carbon offset to pounds of coal saved and number of trees that would have to be planted to produce the same effect.
