CEI mobilizes students, faculty and communities to work together on North Bay environmental challenges. Our mission is two-fold:
- To give SSU students across all disciplines the knowledge, skills and experience to take on complex environmental challenges
- To mobilize the resources of a 4-year university to help communities identify, study, and implement solutions to environmental challenges
CEI manages SSU preserves and gardens as outdoor classrooms and laboratories and creates programs that enhance connections to nature, build environmental skills, and help people find solutions to environmental challenges. Because environmental challenges are intimately tied to social and economic activities, CEI engages people across all disciplines and sectors of society.