President's Climate Commitment Task Force (CCTF)

About the Task Force

To guide Whittier College's first steps in pursuit of climate neutrality, the President's Climate Commitment Task Force (CCTF)* was created. Composed of faculty, staff, and students, this Task Force serves as a study group to:

  • Investigate how other colleges and universities have initiated their own processes;
  • Oversee collection of information that will inform our inventory of greenhouse gas emissions;
  • Generate interest, educate, and solicit input from students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents;
  • Begin to identify ways to reduce the College's carbon emissions that will save or generate revenue that can then be invested in other environmentally activities; and
  • Recommend select pilot ventures to be tested during the initial of the project.

* Note: The CCTF is not charged with developing the College's plan to reach carbon neutrality, which will come later, based on this early work.

Task Force Membership

Contact: ClimateCommitment@whittier.edu
Task Force Facilitator:  Kristin Wiberg, executive assistant to the president
Ex-officio member: Sharon Herzberger, president

  • sal johnston, associate professor of sociology
  • Ralph Komai '64, assistant to the dean of faculty, visiting assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences
  • Janice Legoza, vice president for finance and administration
  • Kelly Muscolo ’08, student
  • Ron Price ’08, student
  • Linda Ross, director of career services
  • Cheryl Swift, James Irvine Foundation Chair in Biology, coordinator for Environmental Science major program
  • Greg Woirol, professor of economics