Grambling’s Corban Bell Wins Toyota Green Initiative
Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Grambling State University, Louisiana, Students
Grambling State University student Corban Bell is the national grand prize winner of Toyota’s Green Initiative, a contest challenging students at historically black colleges and universities to create sustainable green programming on their campuses. Bell, a member of the GSU Student Government Association, wins a one-year lease of a Toyota Prius, but according to school officials, the campus will gain something much greater.
“As an involved Student Government Association leader, Bell, 23, proposed a university-wide recycling program, one that would have been implemented with students’ help whether he won the Toyota contest or not. In early April, students passed a bill to create a self-assessed fee of $1 per semester. That fee will raise about $50,000 to support the recycling program during the next five years.”
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