Babson College
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

1) In Nov. 2011, Babson hosted a Eco Rep Symposium for the schools in the northeast. The Symposium served as a collaborative space for students and sustainability coordinators to share and learn from one another about successful student engagement programs for sustainability. School representatives gained insight into the key challenges facing Eco Reps and other peer-to-peer sustainability education programs and learned strategies to overcome them 2) The VP of facilities co-present with the sustainability coordinator at AASHE 2011. The presentation was "Sustainability and Facilities, friends not foes: A case study of the Babson approach to collaboration." 3) Babson's MBA Energy and Environmental Club had their annual conference in the spring of 2012.The theme for the conference this year was "Energy, Environment & Entrepreneurship: Challenging Assumptions, Changing Perceptions." http://babsonenergy.com/ 4) Babson wrote a paper for the Northeastern Sun Magazine."Embracing the Triple Bottom Line - On campus and in the classroom, Babson College moves sustainability to its core" http://www.greeneru.com/About/news/Article%20Reprint%20-%20NESEA%20Northeast%20Sun%20Article%202011-11-29.pdf

1) AASHE 2) Northeast College Sustainability Consortium (NECSC) 3) MassRecycle 4) Babson-Olin-Wellesley Partnership for Sustainability 5) AAC&U - Association of American Colleges & Universities 6) Campus Compact 7) Massachusetts Schools Sustainability Coordinators Roundtable (MSSCOR) 8) College and University Recycling Coalition 9) APPA 10) Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 11) International Facility Management Association (IFMA)

Tri-campus effort called Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, Arts, and Sciences: IDEAS for Environment and Sustainability with local schools Wellesley College and Olin College of Engineering began in 2009. A certificate program, which will focuses on environmental studies started in the fall of 2011 and is available to students on any of the three campuses and will be undertaken alongside any degree program. Students can choose among a common set of courses that will emphasize a liberal arts (science, social science and humanities) understanding of environmental issues, the role of business and entrepreneurship in solving environmental problems, and an appreciation of how the practice and process of engineering and design can contribute as well. These courses will be augmented by a “core course” that will focus on how to integrate insight from across the disciplines to solve problems. It is designed to challenge and enable students to bring together different types of knowledge and to synthesize new perspectives and understanding. Babson currently has concentration in environmental sustainability. Babson on has one major available to students on campus, Business. However, there are many concentrations for the students. In the fall of 2011 students were offered to choose a concentration in environmental sustainability. http://www.babson.edu/undergraduate/academics/concentrations/pages/environmental-sustainability.aspx