Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Chihuahua
PRE-4: Reporting Methodologies

Tec de Monterrey started the STARS projects on Campus in August 2023, with the porpouse to certificate the 10 biggest Campuses in the system.

This task required a great amount of planning and administration from the leading team, the process of preparation for this report is the following:

1. Baseline and diagnostics: during the first months of this process, before the kick-off in August the team focused on determined the baseline information required for this project, this task required to colect information from 2019 operations and administration process of the campuses. In the meantime, the team was also getting familiarized with the STARS methodology, identifying the strategic areas that we will need to get involved. As most of the information generated in this reports are nationwide initiatives, we need it to touch base with many central areas of the university, therefore, the process of identifying the key players and get them involved was very important for the foundations of this project. In this part of the project, the team also prepared all the formats, documents and online carpets with the porpouse of having the most organized documentation process possible.
2. Kick off: After all the major preparations beforehand, the team launched an official Kick Off with all the Sustainability teams in each Campus, this was an important milestone since coordinating a nationwide meeting with all the Campuses is challengin of its own. During the kick off process the team shared the STARS structure and weighing of each category, as well as the process of documentation, deadlines and colecting of information. During this stage of the project, an inmense amount of online meetings were schedule to resolve any comments, questions or any other major setback with all the Campuses involved.
3. Documentation and upload: During this process the team started to receive an important amount of data and information needed for this process, therefore, all the documentation process took and important amount of time, it was important for all of us to have the most accurate and valuable information. Afterwards, the team startated to upload the information into the Report Builder for each Campus, during this process and in some cases if something wasn't right about the data we collected we circled back with the Campus in order for us to have the right data.

Martín C. Sánchez Gutiérrez: STARS Project Lead

Paola Gutiérrez: STARS Project Coordinator

Iván Humberto: STARS Project Analyst.

Raúl Yusta: External Analyst.

The major role of the students in this process was to be the bridge between the STARS team and the major student activities and projects. They helped us identify and document all the activities around student groups, organizations and comittees, assuring to have the best picture possible in order for us to showcase their advancement in sustainability. 

During the whole process we have an External Analyst (Raul Yusta) expert on sustainability certifications such as ISO and GRI standars. We followed a estandard documentation process for all campuses where each of theam had their own credtis assigned depending on their role and area. After the documentation our analyst helped us verify that the information was correct and/or followed the requirements in order for the STARS team could document and make a final revision.