Add
to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890
to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy
to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need
to define college: «An institution
to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time
to college and university
work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should
require for admission not less than the usual four years of
academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in
addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»
In particular, BECI can play a critical role in catalyzing the additional multidisciplinary
academic work around carbon removal needed
to address the growing scientific consensus (from institutions, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Research Council, and the Global Carbon Project) that preventing further climate change likely
requires carbon removal in
addition to reductions in carbon emissions.