Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 36.18
Liaison Julia Knight
Submission Date July 18, 2012
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Harrisburg Area Community College
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Julia Knight
Director
Office for Sustainability
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:

A presentation on 'using the greenhouse gas inventory as a tool for service learning in the classroom' and 'incorporating global climate change into the curriculum', were presented at the 2010 and 2011 annual conference, respectively, of the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium, an organization dedicated to supporting college campus sustainability, by HACC faculty members. A May 2011 Facilities Manager article on HACC's Green Technology Training Center facilites, was written by Senior Director, Facilities, Harrisburg Campus.


The names of local, state, regional, national, and other campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:

State Organization: PERC (see above)
National: AASHE, ACUPCC, SEED (AACC), NACUBO


A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :

The Director, Office for Sustainability, is on the PERC executive board, and meets regularly with local college representatives for discussions on promoting campus sustainability.

HACC is a participant on a NASA Grant, secured by Dickinson College, that supports global climate change curriculum development.


The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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