Coordination & Planning
Introduction
Staff and other resources help an institution organize, implement, and publicize sustainability initiatives. These resources provide the infrastructure that fosters sustainability within an institution. Sustainability planning affords an institution the opportunity to clarify its vision of a sustainable future, establish priorities and help guide budgeting and decision making.
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Strategic Action Plan
- Roger Williams University (RI)
RWU's plan includes a Sustainable Futures framework that provides a list of campus initatives such as, reconstituting the university's Sustainability Committee, conducting and submitting an AASHE/STARS reports ...
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Strategic Plan
- University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (Co. Cork)
This two‐year plan builds on our strengths in student focus, sustainability, and community and global engagement, to identify actions to respond to the current crisis and position UCC for ...
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Strategic Plan
- Raritan Valley Community College (NJ)
RVCC's Strategic Plan offers insight to the institutions dedication to incorporating Service Learning, environmental sustainability, and diversity initiatives.
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Strategic Plan
- University of Manitoba (MB)
University of Manitoba’s commitment to sustainability and innovation can be found in the goals and actions of the campus strategic plan. Examples of goals include but are not limited ...
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Sustainability Strategy Plan
- University of Manitoba (MB)
The UM Sustainability Strategy Plan is a public document with measurable sustainability objectives. The goals within the strategy are divided into 3 categories: Infrastructure and Operations, Campus Life, Research and ...
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Sustainability Plan
- North Carolina State University (NC)
NC State’s Sustainability Strategic Plan is a five-year roadmap that builds upon the university’s strengths, momentum, and decades of sustainability progress. It sets forth an ambitious set of ...
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Sustainability Plan
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
This Sustainability Plan puts forth a set of strategic goals to serve as a framework to elucidate the driving values and give direction to the university's approach to sustainability
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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2022 Sustainable Campus Index
- AASHE (PA)
The 2022 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI) recognizes top-performing colleges and universities overall by institution type and in 17 sustainability impact areas, as measured by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating ...
- Posted Oct. 17, 2022
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Sustainability Action Plan
- Vanier College (QC)
The Vanier College commitment to sustainability and innovation in the Sustainability Action Plan is evidenced by the integration focus areas into academics, extra-curricular activities, and operations. Operations at the college ...
- Posted Sept. 6, 2022
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Strategic Plan
- California State University, San Bernardino (CA)
The main elements of the strategic plan include five goals associated with objectives and strategies that serve as metrics for future accountability, including Student Success, Faculty and Staff Success, Resources ...
- Posted Sept. 6, 2022
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Strategic Plan
- Douglas College (BC)
As a public post-secondary institution, Douglas College has a responsibility to provide environmental and social leadership. Initiatives under 3.2 “Contribute to sustainability goals through education, processes and practices” will ...
- Posted Sept. 6, 2022
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Master Plan
- Champlain College (VT)
Champlain’s master plan is a plan for accommodating a changing institution in ways that respect and enhance one of Burlington’s most treasured residential neighborhoods.
- Posted Sept. 6, 2022
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Sustainability Action Plan
- Champlain College (VT)
This document offers a roadmap for how Champlain College will carry out its Sustainability Values. This plan builds upon other College plans and policies, most notably the Strategic and Master ...
- Posted Sept. 6, 2022
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2021-2022 Sustainability Annual Report
- University of Virginia (VA)
The 2021-2022 UVA Sustainability Annual Report provides a snapshot of collaborative work accomplished by students, staff, faculty and alumni to advance UVA’s sustainability goals over the past academic year ...
- Posted Aug. 18, 2022
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Alternative Energy Initiatives
- University of Idaho (ID)
This $1.75 per full time student, per semester fee provides funding to innovative student-led campus projects relating to alternative energy and green infrastructure to further the university's goal ...
- Posted Aug. 15, 2022
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Support for Strategic Initiatives
- Middlebury College (VT)
The Provost has funds available to support initiatives that further Middlebury’s strategy. The Provost’s Academic Council (PAC) makes decisions about which ideas to pursue and prioritize, consulting regularly ...
- Posted Aug. 15, 2022
- Green Funds
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Climate Action Exhibition
- American University of Sharjah (Ash Shariqah)
As part of developing AUS' Climate Action Plan (CAP) an exhibition was held to engage the entire AUS community. The exhibition explained the main focal points of the CAP, which ...
- Posted Aug. 4, 2022
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Tuffy's Basic Needs Services
- California State University, Fullerton (CA)
Tuffy’s Basic Needs Services Center identifies and serves students who are experiencing an unforeseen hardship, emergency, crisis, or catastrophic life event.
The resources offered by this comprehensive endeavor are ...
- Posted Aug. 3, 2022
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UMN Morris student recycling cardboard at campus recycling center
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
UMN Morris students staff the Recycling Center. The picture shows a UMN Morris student breaking down boxes before they are compressed and stored for future recycling.
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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UMN Morris community members celebrate the two new electric school buses at Morris Area School District
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
A UMN Morris student worked with the Morris Area School District to write a grant to get two fully-electric schoolbuses. These community members (in the air) are from the Muenster ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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University of Sydney Sustainability Team
- University of Sydney (NSW)
SCI 2022
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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Class at the O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
- Stanford University (CA)
Class at the O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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Climate Action Plan RFP Guidelines: an open-source collaboration
- Brailsford & Dunlavey (DC)
Overview The purpose of this document is to support staff members tasked with writing an RFP for a: Climate Action Plan Carbon Mitigation Plan Climate Action and Resilience Plan Climate ...
- Posted July 18, 2022
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Campus Garden to Bring New Opportunities for Self-Sustainability
- California State University, Fullerton (CA)
Cal State Fullerton recently broke ground on a new campus garden that will serve as a tool for hands-on student learning. The ceremony was part of Cal State Fullerton’s ...
- Posted July 18, 2022
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Webinar: Cli Fi, Sci Fi, and the Culture of Sustainability
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- AASHE (PA)
Climate fiction, or cli-fi, is a form of literature that features a changed/changing climate or global warming as a major plot device. Join this webinar for an overview of ...
- Posted July 3, 2022
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Webinar: Strategic Planning and Pathway Development for Significantly Reducing GHG Emissions (Scopes 1 and 2)
- University of Chicago (IL)
- AASHE (PA)
- Edison Energy (CA)
Meeting the urgent call to mitigate the impacts of climate change: Given the early success with meeting GHG reduction targets by 2025, the University of Chicago has developed more ambitious ...
- Posted June 14, 2022
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Scope 3 Business-related air travel Greenhouse Gas emissions at Royal Roads University, Victoria BC
- Royal Roads University (BC)
I completed an analysis of GHG emissions for all air travel during the 2019 calendar year at Royal Roads University; this analysis included travel emissions of the University Executive; its ...
- Posted June 13, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Protected Area Planning
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
This course equips students with the knowledge and skills required by contemporary protected area planners. This course covers planning practice in government, private and community-based protected areas.
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Planning for Sustainable Communities Concentration
- Sonoma State University (CA)
This concentration is designed for students who would like to follow a pre-professional curriculum in planning.
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental, Natural Resource, and Energy Policy and Administration Emphasis
- Boise State University (ID)
The program and services of Public Policy and Administration reflect the nature of the discipline of public administration, a mixture of theory and practice. The School offers a professional graduate ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental Governance
- Boise State University (ID)
Governance assists working professionals and students with additional training and coursework to further develop their expertise and skills within the context of the unique challenges that emerge for public, private ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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A greenway for sustainable transportation of the university campus: Diyala University as a case study
- University of Baghdad
- University of Diyala
Transportation is one of the aspects that enable us to achieve sustainability on a university campus, by taking environmental, social, and economic requirements. Walking is a green mode that can ...
- Posted May 23, 2022
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Water Plan
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
Sustaining water quantity and quality for people and the environment is a growing challenge. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is committed to working to ensure clean water ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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A holistic sustainability assessment of a university campus using life cycle approach
- Abdullah Gül University
The sustainability performances of campuses are of importance as it could model the effective sustainable initiatives that could be then applied to campuses by decision-makers and designers. Studies have been ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Renewing Universities in Our Climate Emergency: Stewarding System Change and Transformation
- University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
- University of York
- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) (Scotland)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- International Futures Forum (Scotland)
- H3Uni (Scotland)
- Susanne Moser Research and Consulting (MA)
This paper outlines climate emergencies facing universities and, by drawing on research on system transition, provides insights about how change to overcome the challenges might be stewarded. Climate change brings ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Common features of sustainable higher education sector according to an international sustainability ranking data
- Häme University of Applied Sciences
- Universidade Feevale
- National Defence University (Finland)
This case study utilized data from an international university ranking (GreenMetric World University Rankings). The data show that in 2015–17, campus greening activities were dominated by sustainable development (SD ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Development of the University Food Environment Assessment (Uni-Food) Tool and Process to Benchmark the Healthiness, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability of University Food Environments
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
- Monash University (VIC)
- Deakin University
- Flinders University (South Australia)
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
- University of Wollongong (New South Wales)
- University of Sydney (NSW)
Globally, there is increasing interest in monitoring actions to create healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food environments. Currently, there is a lack of detailed tools for monitoring and benchmarking university ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Mapping Concordia’s Sustainability Ecosystem, a system mapping experiment
- Concordia University (QC)
Tristan Harris, the founder of the Center for humane Technology, once said: "Our ability to meet the world's challenges depends on us making sense & coordinating together." It means ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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How to Repurpose the University: A Resilience Lens on Sustainability Governance
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Keele University
Universities have an important role in moving society towards a more sustainable future. However, this will require us to repurpose universities, reorienting and refocusing the different university domains (education, research ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Universities as Change Makers Sustainability Initiatives from Across the Globe
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
“Universities as Change Makers: Sustainability Initiatives from Across the Globe” is the result of a cooperative effort of two HEI-focused international projects based at Freie Universität Berlin: trAndeS – Postgraduate Program ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Higher education's response to the Covid-19 pandemic - Building a more sustainable and democratic future
- Council of Europe
Public health was the immediate concern when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in Asia, then in Europe and other parts of the world. The response of our education systems is no ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Mapping and Critical Synthesis of Current State-of-the-Art on Community Engagement in Higher Education
- Global University Network for Innovation
This publication defines the concept of community engagement in higher education and its role in contemporary debates about the role of higher education in the 21st century and maps international ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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What are the motivations for and obstacles to disclosing voluntary sustainability information by U.S. universities in STARS reports?
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)
This study investigates voluntary sustainability reporting by U.S. universities. Using a structural equation modeling approach and Poisson regression, this analysis explores the relevant motivations for and obstacles in disclosing ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Rankings: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Internationally Comparable Indicators
- University of Twente
As more higher education institutions strive to embed sustainable development principles in their teaching, it becomes increasingly important to identify indicators that can measure institutional contribution in a meaningful and ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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SIMAP and Second Nature Reporting Webinar April 2021
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Second Nature
SIMAP and Second Nature Reporting Webinar April 2021
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Climate Action Commitment Roadshow Series
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Virginia Tech recently approved a revised version of the Climate Action Commitment. To educate the campus community about it, our Climate Action, Sustainability, and Energy (CASE) Office went on a ...
- Posted May 19, 2022
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A Student-led Approach to Campus Sustainability: Environmental Sustainability Report
- University of Delaware (DE)
The Environmental Sustainability Report (Fall 2021) was established using a bottom-up approach led by students and involved collaboration between multiple stakeholders, on- and off-campus. This Report was driven by a ...
- Posted May 19, 2022
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The Planetary Wellbeing Initiative: Pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education
- Pompeu Fabra University
- UNESCO
- University of Essex
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
- École d'économie de Paris
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
- Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
We live in a time of pressing planetary challenges, many of which threaten catastrophic change to the natural environment and require massive and novel coordinated scientific and societal efforts on ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A framework for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in university programmes
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Passo Fundo
- University of Aveiro
- University of Coimbra
- University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
- Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- University of Wroclaw/Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Wrocław)
- University of Belgrade
- Universidade Positivo
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- University of Milano-Bicocca
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
There is a perceived need to develop approaches, methods and tools that may help higher education institutions to systematically introduce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into research and teaching as ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Sustainability as an Emerging Paradigm in Universities
- University of Valladolid
- Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
- Universitat Carlemany
- Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores
- Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado
- Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica Antonio José de Sucre
This article aims to review the perspective of sustainability adoption in universities through two dimensions: firstly, from the educational and research process, and second, from their global positioning in terms ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
PA 1: Sustainability Coordination
- Description of the sustainability committee(s)
- Description of the sustainability office(s)
- Description of activities and accomplishments of the institution-wide coordinating body or officer during the previous three years
- First sustainability position (upload)
- First sustainability position (text)
- Second sustainability position (upload)
- Second sustainability position (text)
- Third sustainability position (upload)
- Third sustainability position (text)
- Website URL - Sustainability Coordination
PA 2: Sustainability Coordination
- Published measurable objectives - Academics
- Published measurable objectives - Engagement
- Published measurable objectives - Operations
- Published measurable objectives - Planning & Administration
- Website URL - Highest Guiding Strategic Plan
- Sustainability plan (upload)
- Sustainability plan (website URL)
- Website URL - Sustainability planning
PA 3: Sustainability Coordination
- Description of participatory or shared governance bodies
- Percent of official members of the highest governing body that are women
- Website URL - Institution’s highest level governing body
- Description of campus-community council or equivalent body that gives external stakeholders a regular voice in institutional decisions
- Website URL - Institutional governance body
PA 4: Reporting Assurance
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.