Boise State Sustainability Action Committee

The Sustainability Action Committee consists of faculty, staff and students who are interested in advancing sustainability on campus.  This group meets regularly to share ideas and discuss options for new sustainability initiatives and partnerships. Through these meetings, we collaborate to stay up to date on the current initiatives happening on campus. 

https://www.boisestate.edu/sustainability/home/campus-initiatives/ 

Committee on Faculty Belonging & Retention

1) Champions a university environment that values all individuals and fosters a sense of belonging by promoting the values of respect, understanding, and fairness within our university experience;

2) Evaluates, proposes and develops university policies and programs affecting faculty morale, recruitment and retention. 

3) Leverages resources for faculty, and offers support when applicable.

Faculty Senate Policies & Bylaws: https://www.boisestate.edu/academics-facultysenate/faculty-senate-bylaws/

Black Faculty and Staff Association

The Boise State University Black Faculty and Staff Association is a group of concerned educators who seek to enhance, unify, increase productivity, and bolster morale of the Black community at BSU. 

The BSUBFSA arose out of an expressed need for a more comprehensive representation of Blacks at Boise State University. Organizational meetings were held in the Spring of 2020  and the following goals were established:

To create a viable vehicle through which the campus's Black community could come together.

To communicate ideas emanating from diverse areas and disciplines.

To act on specific issues to improve the conditions of Blacks on campus.

To eradicate inequities based upon racial and sexual discrimination.

To facilitate networking.

The group will outline a sustainability plan for the recruitment and retention of black faculty and staff and aims to develop programs and build  networks to create an environment where BSU is seen as a first-choice destination for black educators  and their families. 

https://engage.boisestate.edu/organization/bsfa 

Recycling Training

The Boise State Office of Sustainability regularly trains staff on how to handle recycling.  Office staff receive a basic training.  Custodians receive a more in-depth training, that includes best practices for recycling collection.  

An online event from 2022 can be found below.

https://engage.boisestate.edu/event/7736325

Campus Ops Sustainability Presentation

Boise State's Office of Sustainability gave a presentation on sustainability at which over 60 members of staff were present. This took place at the annual Campus Operations Summit, which is free for all staff, students and faculty to attend.  

We estimate that 17% of employees are engaged in sustainability activities.  

A conservative estimate was produced after creating a spreadsheet containing a mixture of the exact number of employees engaged (through Staff Training etc) and estimates (Presentation attendance). Furthermore, for engagement through channels such as Instagram or newsletter interactions where it is impossible to tell whether it was a staff or student a proportion was used. *To avoid dual accounting the newsletter subscriptions and the Instagram followers were approximated as per their proportion of total FTE (Students=18,136/21,180 , Employee = 3,043.7/21,180).