Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 62.47
Liaison Chris Frantsvog
Submission Date March 3, 2017
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STARS v2.1

Luther College
IC-1: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Maren Beard
Assistant Director, Campus Sustainability
Center for Sustainable Communities
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Institution type: Associate (i.e., short-cycle), Baccalaureate, Doctoral/Research, or Master's:
Baccalaureate

Institutional control (Public, Private for-profit, or Private non-profit):
Private non-profit

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:

Decorah, the home of Luther College for 152 years, has a resident population of 8,500. It is the county seat of Winneshiek County, located at the junction of U.S. Highway 52 and State Highway 9. The Minnesota border lies 15 miles to the north. The Mississippi River lies 30 miles to the east.

The campus is built on the rolling wooded hills and rugged limestone cliffs of northeast Iowa's bluff country. The scenic Upper Iowa River flows through the lower portion of the 200-acre central campus. The college owns an additional 800 acres adjoining the central campus which are devoted to environmental research, biological and recreation.


Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
Present? Included?
Agricultural school No ---
Medical school No ---
Other professional school with labs and clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) No ---
Satellite campus No ---
Farm larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares No ---
Agricultural experiment station larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares No ---
Hospital No ---

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
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Additional documentation to support the submission :
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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