Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.90
Liaison Chris Frantsvog
Submission Date July 29, 2011
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STARS v1.0

Luther College
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Dan Bellrichard
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability Department
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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:

Luther is a member of, helped create and continues to maintain the web site for the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability - http://www.umacs.org/. Luther has hosted a workshop of ACM colleges - http://www.acm.edu/index.html - “Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum." Luther also had a group from Loras college come and tour Luther's sustainability initiatives.


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

*the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability
*College and University Sustainability Roundtable
*Associated Colleges of the Midwest


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

There is a group of Iowa universities and colleges that meet once or twice a year to share ideas and experience related to sustainability - the group is referred to as College and University Sustainability Roundtable- which Luther participates in. Luther is also participating in the national energy competition "Campus Conservation Nationals" (www.luther.edu/sustainability/events_news/events/energycompetition/).


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