| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 61.45 |
| Liaison | Alan Brew |
| Submission Date | July 30, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Northland College
PAE-2: Strategic Plan
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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6.00 / 6.00 |
Year the strategic plan or equivalent was completed or adopted:
Does the institution's strategic plan or equivalent guiding document include the environmental dimensions of sustainability at a high level?:
A brief description of how the strategic plan or amendment addresses the environmental dimensions of sustainability:
The following text is from the execultive summary of the current strategic plan:
Mission: Northland College integrates liberal arts studies with an environmental emphasis, enabling those it serves to address the challenges of the future.
Vision: To be the nation’s leading environmental liberal arts college.
Values:
We value our mission as an environmental Liberal Arts college engaged in the pursuit of academic excellence and education that transforms the lives of our students through empowering experiences in leadership, hands-on
training, and opportunities to create positive change.
We value the dedication of our faculty, staff, students, and Trustees: we are a caring and close-knit community that encourages each individual to grow,learn, and become an agent of positive change. We value - as individuals and as a community - the place where we live and work, and we are committed to sustainability and good stewardship, in order
to conserve this place for the generations that will follow us. We value, finally, the humility and awe that these connections generate in us: connections that tie our fate to that of this planet.
Our Interconnecting Goals
Providing Academic Excellence in a transforming learning community of faculty, students, and the broader region: Academic excellence includes rigor in thinking, integrity in the search for truth, discipline in study, and flexibility in building the conceptual frameworks necessary for understanding the world’s systems using the wisdom and perspectives of many different disciplines and
cultures.
Achieving Sustainability: To achieve long term well-being, Northland’s stewardship of its own resources help move larger systems toward long term health: Human Environmental Financial
Northland College aims, by academic excellence and sustainable practice, to lead the way to a world where human and other biological communities can thrive together indefinitely.
Does the institution's strategic plan or equivalent guiding document include the social dimensions of sustainability at a high level?:
A brief description of how the strategic plan or amendment addresses the social dimensions of sustainability:
From the above document -- Achieving Sustainability: To achieve long term well-being, Northland’s stewardship of its own resources help move larger systems toward long term health: Human Environmental Financial
Does the institution's strategic plan or equivalent guiding document include the economic dimensions of sustainability at a high level?:
A brief description of how the strategic plan or amendment addresses the economic dimensions of sustainability:
From the above document -- Achieving Sustainability: To achieve long term well-being, Northland’s stewardship of its own resources help move larger systems toward long term health: Human Environmental Financial
The website URL where information about the strategic plan is available:
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