There’s a common phrase shared between campus recycling and waste managers: it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission. You may need to temporarily place a roll-off dumpster outside a professor’s office window, or change collection schedules to a different day of the week. Never mind any political biases a college culture may have, they are fundamentally conservative places when it comes to institutional change. Operational changes inevitably impact one campus stakeholder or another, and their perceptions of the inconvenience…
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