Archives for Getting to Green

May 2008

Accentuate, I'm positive (May 12)

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A new leader in the greenhouse (May 15)

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Inputs and outputs (May 17) (2 comments)

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Talk To Your Accreditation Folks & More

G. Rendell, I think I know you, but I don’t know precisely who you are yet :)

If you have not already, you should find the folks on your campus who do its institutional research and planning. And also the folks who are managing, or who last managed, Greenback U’s accreditation process. They’ll have more numbers for you.

As will those who measure, manage, and plan for space usage — space management and planning.

As well, your financial people could provide some budgetary analysis which, while some might think it crass, would also give you measurables.

Someone, somewhere on your campus is very likely trying to put measures relating to all of the above, as well as student learning outcomes (SLOs) in one place, perhaps on a ‘dashboard’. Come to our conference this summer — maybe you already are — and you’ll find plenty of people doing that.

The fact that planning your way to achieving the ACUPCC goals absolutely requires comprehensive, integrated planning and the broadest possible look at your institution, is one of the many reasons that SCUP has supported the ACUPCC from its very inception.

Terry Calhoun, Society for College and University Planning, at 11:00 am EDT on May 19, 2008

Thanks for bringing up an important point. As a sustainability professional, I often “justify” the unsustainable aspects of my position (e.g., my commute), with the assertion that I’m doing more good than harm for the planet by contributing to the education of an environmentally literate citizenry. I truly believe this is the case, but would be hard pressed to demonstrate such a claim with statistical analysis. Our school administers a Student Satisfaction Inventory to all graduating seniors which may reveal some of the outputs you’re interested in — as Terry’s suggested, this information is incorporated into accreditation and strategic planning processes as well. Many of our students, staff, and faculty have developed their own surveys to determine campus impressions of our environmental mission.

Jesse, Green Mountain College, at 8:30 am EDT on May 21, 2008

... or add a day (May 19)

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A cool (actually, warm) map (May 20)

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Shooting a baseline (May 23)

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A list on the road to Damascus (May 27)

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