Week 10- Question 1

How are organizations tied to the environment? What is the relationship between the school you attend and the city or town in which it is situated? What, if any, ethical obligations do an organization like a college or universities have to the local community?

There are many organizations like educational institutions should be taking the initiative to take care of their environment that the institution is on and motivate their students to care about it too. They can fundraise and hold special days to devote it to the environment. Yet, I feel like the city and San Jose State are not connected. The only thing that we have in common is the library but even that is separated out by floors. The students mostly stay on the sixth floor or higher, while the community is on the lower floors. That is not much of a connection in my eyes.

Our obligations should be to the city and the city to us. As a college of San Jose, we should want to improve the relationship that we have with the community because we live here and learn here. The community in return should want its graduates to be well education so that they can keep their community growing and involving. It would be a win-win situation if both make an effort to change the way we are today.