Babson College
EN-10: Inter-Campus Collaboration

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) Babson's Energy and Environmental Club had their annual conference in the spring of 2014. The theme for the conference this year was "Fifteen Shades of Green." http://babsonenergy.com/2014conference// 3) Babson's Eco Reps presented at AASHE 2013 on "Not Just Another Student Project: Best Practices for Working Effectively with Campus Administration" 4) Babson staff presented at AASHE 2013 on "Sustainability by the Numbers" 5) Babson staff did a poster at AASHE 2014 on electric vehicle charging stations. We have been sharing this poster with several other schools due to inquires after the conference.

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) Massachusetts Schools Sustainability Coordinators Roundtable (MSSCOR) 7) College and University Recycling Coalition 8) APPA 9) Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 10) International Facility Management Association (IFMA) 11) College & University Recycling Coalition

Tri-Campus Sustainability Certificate Program with Olin and Wellesley Colleges: A certificate program which 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.