The school, Loyola's 11th, upgrades the status of its seven-year-old Institute for Environmental Sustainability, which already was one of only a handful of such programs at U.S. Catholic colleges.

Choate explained that while Catholic University owns the land the solar panels were installed on, the school ... to the West Campus array, Catholic University is home to around 2,600 solar panels ...

The West Campus Solar Array at The Catholic University of America. (Callie Patteson/Washington Examiner) The entire 7.5-megawatt array is expected to save around ... the school does not own ...