Connecticut College
PA-2: Sustainability Planning

1. Incorporate learning objectives related to sustainability into Connections and/or individual majors - Campus Sustainability Plan
2. Develop a recurring, week long summer workshop for faculty interested in including sustainability more fully in their courses - Campus Sustainability Plan
3. Develop a first-year seminar (FYS) module on sustainability that engages students with the campus’ sustainable features - Campus Sustainability Plan
4. Adopt the model of "campus as a living lab" to incorporate building design and construction, energy use, and other sustainability data into coursework - Campus Sustainability Plan
5. Redouble efforts to spread sustainability across the curriculum - Building on Strength Strategic Plan (the companion Implementation Plan expands on this broader goal by referencing providing financial incentives for new course development and supporting faculty participation in teaching workshops with a focus on traditionally under-represented disciplines)

1. Implement diversity, cultural literacy and sustainability training for all new faculty and staff, phase in training for current employees and enhance current trainings for students - Campus Sustainability Plan
2. Implement a peer-to-peer sustainability education program for faculty and staff - Campus Sustainability Plan
3. Work with Residential Education Fellows and other existing programs to include sustainability in their events - Campus Sustainability Plan

1. Achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 - Campus Sustainability Plan Phase 1 Update (2022)
2. Undertake at least $750,000 in energy efficiency projects by 2025 - Campus Sustainability Plan
3. Reduce total waste by 20% by 2028 from a 2017 baseline - Campus Sustainability Plan
4. Reduce water consumption on campus by 5% by 2023 and 8% by 2028 from a 2017 baseline - Campus Sustainability Plan
5. Increase the amount of local, organic and fair trade food purchased across campus to 10 percent by 2023 and 20 percent by 2028 from a 2017 baseline of 5.86 percent - Campus Sustainability Plan

1. Create a Committee of Investor Responsibility to advise the Board of Trustees on ethical and sustainable investing and complete proxy votes on
behalf of the College - Campus Sustainability Plan
2. Develop a sustainable investment policy and/or include sustainability considerations in existing investment policies - Campus Sustainability Plan
3. Promote Faculty/Staff equity through coordinated information sharing and decision-making - Campus Sustainability Plan

Connecticut College is proud of its pioneering tradition of ecological awareness and responsibility and intends to remain a leader in safeguarding the environment. The arboretum campus is an ecological showpiece, and the College's procedures and programs aim to preserve and protect the environment, both locally and globally, and to prepare citizens sensitive to the need for responsible environmental stewardship.

At Connecticut College, sustainability is a framework by which long-lasting solutions to local and global challenges are developed through understanding the connections among social equity, environmental stewardship and economic wellbeing and including all three within all decision-making and strategic planning processes.

Connecticut College was a signatory of the American College and University President's Climate Commitment, but we have been inactive since 2019.