Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.09
Liaison DeLayne Miller
Submission Date Dec. 18, 2019
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Tennessee Technological University
IC-1: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A DeLayne Miller
Sustainability Manager
Facilities:Office of Sustainability
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Institution type: Associate (i.e., short-cycle), Baccalaureate, Doctoral/Research, or Master's:
Doctoral/Research

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

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
Tennessee Technological University's main campus is 267 acres with 87 buildings. At Tech Farm, Tennessee Tech School of Agriculture students get hands-on experience working, learning and doing research. The farm is a productive operation with cattle, pigs, and sheep. Crops such as hay, wheat, and soybeans are also produced. Also included is the Appalachian Center for Craft, a satellite campus of Tennessee Tech University and part of the nationally accredited School of Art, Craft and Design within the College of Fine Arts. With an enrollment of more than 10,000 students, Tennessee Tech offers more than 40 undergraduate and 20 graduate degrees across eight academic colleges and schools: Agriculture and Human Ecology, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Nursing.

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

If there are features present that are not included within the boundary, provide:

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
None are excluded

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Additional documentation to support the submission :
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
https://www.tntech.edu/about/index.php

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