LOCH SHELDRAKE – Sullivan County Community College last year launched its green building initiative, last week won approval of the county legislature to contract for development of a high tech wind generator, and on Monday, the school announced it would offer a new associate’s degree in green building maintenance and management.

The program is but the latest that keeps the college on the cutting edge of environmental studies, said College President Dr. Mamie Howard-Golladay.

“I certainly believe that in the area of the wind energy and some of those kinds of processes, we certainly are on the cutting edge, and I don’t believe that there is another program like ours yet in the state, maybe, even in the nation,” she said.

The new associate of applied sciences degree will be a four-semester, on-campus program designed to prepare “green collar” workers for careers in managing and maintaining high-performance commercial buildings.