Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.74
Liaison James Speer
Submission Date Nov. 1, 2013
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STARS v1.2

Indiana State University
ER-4: Sustainability Outreach and Publications

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 James Speer
Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Does the institution have a central sustainability website that consolidates information about the institution's sustainability efforts?:
Yes

A brief description of the central sustainability website that consolidates information about the institution's sustainability efforts:

The Institute for Community Sustainability at Indiana State University has developed a webpage that consolidates sustainability efforts on campus and in the community. This webpage has sections for campus and community efforts and is our main portal for information about our programs. We also maintain a media page that links to all of the articles about sustainability programs that we work on and we have over 160 news articles on our efforts in the past two years.


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Does the institution have a sustainability newsletter?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability newsletter:

We have a sustainability e-newsletter but it currently has limited distribution. We have had up to 39 sustainability fellows of faculty and staff at Indiana State University and we email them monthly updates about sustainability efforts around campus. We need to take that news and make it more widely available electronically across campus.


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Does the institution have a vehicle to publish and disseminate student research on sustainability?:
Yes

A brief description of the vehicle to publish and disseminate student research on sustainability:

Sycamore Scholars is a tool that is managed by the ISU Cunningham Memorial Library that acts to publish, disseminate, and archive student research. We submit the data and final reports from our sustainability classes to this database and have students access that data to build on previous research.


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Does the institution have building signage that highlights green building features?:
Yes

A brief description of building signage that highlights green building features :

Our building signage is somewhat limited, but we just recently had our first LEED Silver building certified on campus and that building has signage that educates about its green features.


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Does the institution have food service area signage and/or brochures that include information about sustainable food systems?:
Yes

A brief description of food service area signage and/or brochures that include information about sustainable food systems:

Sodexo provides local and organic food in a limited number of its venues and is available for catering. They include signage at Generations restaurant that talks about the local and organic food with some good detailed information about the sourcing of those food options. This information is also available through Sodexo catering on campus for individual events.


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Does the institution have signage on the grounds about sustainable grounds-keeping strategies employed?:
Yes

A brief description of signage on the grounds about sustainable grounds-keeping strategies employed:

We have existing signage on campus for tree species on campus and for ash trees that are being affected by Emerald Ash Borer. Grounds maintenance conducted an awareness program by putting purple ribbons on all 400 ash trees on campus that included explanation about this invasive species and its effects on the trees. We plan to work on more signage for our green roof, organic treatment of grounds, and sustainable ice removal practices. We currently have all 3,500 trees on campus located with a GPS and entered into a database with species, diameter, and health indicators. This data is used on a regular basis in research projects on campus.


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Does the institution have a sustainability walking map or tour?:
No

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Does the institution have a guide for commuters about how to use alternative methods of transportation?:
Yes

A brief description of the guide for commuters about how to use alternative methods of transportation:

ISU has a multi-model parking garage located on campus that includes the city bus system. Information is provided online for alternative methods of transportation and all ISU faculty, staff, and students have fee access to the city bus system through their campus IDs.


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Does the institution have a guide for green living and incorporating sustainability into the residential experience?:
No

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Does the institution have regular coverage of sustainability in the main student newspaper (either through a regular column or a reporter assigned to the sustainability beat)?:
Yes

A brief description of regular coverage of sustainability in the main student newspaper, either through a regular column or a reporter assigned to the sustainability beat:

We usually have weekly articles in the Statesman on sustainability. Our relationship with the student newspaper changes with the turn over of management and students, but we have had multiple different sustainability editors that have conducted regular extensive articles on sustainability. See out ICS website for links to all of these articles.


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Does the institution produce another sustainability publication or outreach material not covered above? (1st material):
Yes

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We have good relationships with the ISU Foundation and have done direct mailings and have completed a 2 minute promotional video. Our College of Arts and Science and our Center for Community Engagement both have regular publications and we submit monthly updates to these venues as well.


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