Campus as Living Learning Lab

We envision our campus as a sustainability pedagogical opportunity, a chance to infuse sustainability across our curriculum and provide applied, real-world sustainability experiences for students. These “Living Learning Labs” merge academics and campus spaces to provide students with real-world skills and, in some cases, a path to help meet our sustainability goals. We maintain a number of different Living Learning Labs, including a five-acre solar farm, a campus organic practice farm (Furman Farm), a former Japanese temple (Place of Peace), a replica of Thoreau’s cabin, a 28-acre campus lake, and a sustainability student fellows program, among others.

For more information about our campus as lab program contact Laura Bain at the Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities.

Take a tour of Furman’s sustainable features, including the Living Learning Labs highlighted here.

Campus as Lab Info Sheets:

Furman Farm

Place of Peace

Thoreau Cabin

Furman Lake

On Campus Solar