| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 52.81 |
| Liaison | Stephan Classen |
| Submission Date | Oct. 14, 2021 |
Cascadia College
PA-1: Sustainability Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Stephan
Classen Assistant Director of Sustainable Practices Student Learning |
Does the institution have at least one sustainability committee?:
The charter or mission statement of the committee(s) or a brief description of each committee's purview and activities:
PURPOSE
This committee meets to develop and implement strategies that further the college’s progress toward meeting established Ten Year Academic Plan goals and demonstrate the college’s commitment to its established values of collaboration, access, success, innovation, environmental sustainability, global awareness, responsiveness and creativity.
Specifically, the committee will work to further integrate sustainability research and practices into STEM education, position Cascadia as a national model for college best practices in campus sustainability, serve as an internal advisory committee for the new Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Sustainable Practices (BASSP) and the recently updated AAS-T degree in Environmental Technology and Sustainable Practices, engage students in real-world applications of sustainability theories and best management practices and create spaces and identify resources that allow for the development of undergraduate research opportunities.
The Cascadia College Sustainability Committee is also charged with working alongside UWB’s Sustainability Committee in order to ensure a campus wide vision of sustainability and a sharing of resources toward aligned goals. Included is the role of wetlands oversight, whereby the chair or designee will perform the traditional roles of the former Wetlands Oversight Committee.
Members of each committee, including affiliations and role:
Name /Title /Role /Term
Stephan Classen/Assistant Director Sustainable Practices Bachelors Program/2020-2021
John VanLeer/Founding Faculty /Faculty/2020-2020
Lisa Citron/Tenured Faculty /Faculty/2020-2021
Mohandas Raj/ Tenured Faculty/Faculty/2020-2021
Kasey Lee/EAB Health & Sustainability/2021-2021
Does the institution have at least one sustainability office that includes more than 1 full-time equivalent employee?:
A brief description of each sustainability office:
Full-time equivalent of people employed in the sustainability office(s):
Does the institution have at least one sustainability officer?:
Name and title of each sustainability officer:
Does the institution have a mechanism for broad sustainability coordination for the entire institution?:
A brief description of the activities and substantive accomplishments of the institution-wide coordinating body or officer during the previous three years:
The Sustainability Committee has been active for five years.
The Sustainability office manages Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts, and writes a weekly blog to all campus on various sustainability topics. https://cascadiaupdates.wordpress.com/sustainability/ Monthly sustainability newsletter.
The Committee has managed to implement a variety of sustainability activities, including:
- The Cascadia Waste Ambassador's program, to educate on proper waste sorting, and implement new waste/recycling/compost bins on campus.
- Refillable pens and whiteboard markers for staff and faculty (with refills available) in the faculty support office.
- Green space expansion - new rain gardens, a grant funding pollinator garden and farm expansion, new fruit orchard to expand the farm space, and adding new edible plants to the campus food forest.
- Carbon offsets purchased through 204 trees planted at a partner site.
- Work with the foundation to install water bottle refill stations and removing plastic bottles from vending machines on campus.
- Hosted 3rd Annual Climate Dialog for climate justice event with 160 participants
- Co-hosted yearly earth week events with co-located campus UW Bothell.
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Job description for the sustainability officer position:
Under the general direction of the Dean for Student Learning and in collaboration with program faculty, the Assistant Director for Sustainable Practices independently provides information about Cascadia's BAS degree in Sustainable Practices and AAS-T degree in Environmental Technologies and Sustainable Practices to prospective students, advises students, tracks program data and budget, provides technical support in courses in sustainable practices and life sciences, develops student research and community based-learning opportunities, leads efforts to improve sustainable practices on campus, and collaborates with faculty and students to achieve success in an environment that values diversity.
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