Endicott College
PRE-2: Points of Distinction

Each year at Move Out, a dedicated team made up of the Office of Sustainability and Community Service staff, in addition to student, staff, and community volunteers work to divert waste from the landfill by recovering items to donate for reuse from students. Collection bins are placed in the lobbies of each dorm to collect unwanted books/school supplies, clothing and shoes, non-perishable food, and dorm supplies which otherwise would have ended up in the landfill; these items are then sorted and donated to a variety of nonprofits in the area to go to people in need. The 2023 College Cleanse initiative collected over 8,000 lbs of items, at an estimated value of $29,000. The campus as a whole has an average annual diversion rate of 50% via recycling, specialty recycling, composting, and reuse initiatives.

A big focus of the Endicott Office of Sustainability is to expose students to the wide variety of careers open to students of all majors in sustainability. This is accomplished by a Sustainability Career Fair in the fall semester, where over 20 companies highly involved in sustainability discuss and recruit students for positions within their organizations; and also an Alumni in Sustainability Panel during the spring semester where alumni working in sustainability roles come back to relate their experiences with current students.

Endicott has one of the largest solar canopy parking lots in the Northeast, totaling nearly 1MW and providing 10 percent of the College’s electricity needs. There are two additional systems, a rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) array on the Raymond J. Bourque Arena, and a solar PV canopy on the campus parking garage. In total, the solar projects provide about 13% of the campuses power needs. The College is also evaluating rooftop solar on 5 additional campus buildings to continue to increase its portfolio of onsite renewable energy.