| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 74.46 |
| Liaison | Ciannat Howett |
| Submission Date | Oct. 9, 2024 |
Emory University
PRE-3: Institutional Boundary
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
N/A |
Cyrus
Bhedwar Director Office of Sustainability Initiatives |
Institution type:
Institutional control:
A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
For this submission, the Druid Hills campus of Emory University and Emory Healthcare are included. This includes all university buildings located on and around Clifton Road, the Briarcliff campus, the Clairmont campus, and Emory National Primate Research Institute. Healthcare facilities included are Emory University Hospital and its adjacent buildings, Clinics A, B, and C, the 1525 Clinic, and the Emory Rehabilitation Hospital.
Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
| Present? | Included? | |
| Agricultural school | No | No |
| Medical school | Yes | Yes |
| Other professional school with labs or clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) | Yes | Yes |
| Museum | Yes | Yes |
| Satellite campus | Yes | No |
| Farm larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres | Yes | No |
| Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres | No | No |
| Hospital | Yes | Yes |
The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
For the AASHE STARS program, Emory's central contiguous campus is the institutional boundary. We have made a conscious decision to include our Healthcare facilities on Clifton Road (which consist of Emory University Hospital, Clinics A and B, Emory Rehabilitation Hospital, the 1525 Clinic, Winship Cancer Institute, and the EUH Education Annex) and all research centers, including the Emory National Primate Research Institute. This operational boundary definition is aligned with Emory's GHG emissions inventory. Other Emory facilities/locations that are not directly contiguous to the main campus, except the Clairmont campus and Briarcliff campus, are not considered in the calculation. These other excluded facilities include Emory University Hospital Midtown, Emory Hospital at Wesley Woods, Emory Long-term Acute Care, Emory Hillendale Hospital, Emory St. Joseph's Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Emory Decatur Hospital, Grady Hospital facilities, the Emory Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital, Emory Primate Field Station, Oxford College, and all other outlying Emory owned facilities. These locations are located around the state of Georgia and are not geographically attached to Emory's contiguous main campus.
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The presence of so many research and clinical healthcare spaces on Emory's campus makes progress on sustainability goals more challenging, but including these facilities in our sustainability goals and in our reporting boundary is the more transparent and accurate choice. Emory's STARS report reflects the resource-intensive nature of Emory's core mission and the socio-political culture of the southeast region.
Regarding the timeline, data collection for this report originally began in Summer 2023 with the intention of submitting it by April 2024. Delays resulted in the report being submitted later than anticipated, but unless otherwise noted, the data used for this report was between September 2020 and August 2023.
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.