So it seems that Goucher College, not Johns Hopkins University, scored the highest grade among Maryland schools on the College Sustainability Report Card.  I confused the two in my earlier post about this annual ranking of environmental policies, practices and endowments.  

Indeed, Goucher pulled down a B-plus, like the University of Maryland improving over last year's mark.  Hopkins, on the other hand, came in third among state schools rated, with a B-minus.  Goucher also joined UM on the ratings honor roll of "Campus Sustainability Leaders."  To find out more, go here.

Thanks to Kory Dodd, Goucher's media relations coordinator, who emailed me to point out my error. Blame my bleary eyes for writing the original post late last night.   Apologies to all the Gophers for slighting them - hope this separate post gives them their due.

I should also point out, as a commenter did, that the report card did not rank environmental practices at all Maryland schools.  Most of the public and private campuses, in fact, were not included.  Only Goucher, UM, JHU and Loyola got graded.   This green rating puts a greater emphasis on endowments than some other campus sustainability surveys, and it looked at the 300 schools with the largest endowments, though this year it added 32 less-endowed institutions that asked to be included.