The Ohio State University
PA-2: Sustainability Planning

Our strategic plan is to be the best university we can be. We owe it to our students, our faculty, our staff and to our community. We owe it to ourselves. And, because we are Ohio State, we owe it to the nation. This means that our accessibility, teaching, research, service and stewardship must be of the highest order, carried out in a way that exemplifies best practices for our peers across the nation and around the world. Development of the plan occurred in collaboration with the university community of students, faculty and staff. We coordinated with our numerous colleges, departments, programs and the Wexner Medical Center to ensure the plan addressed the comprehensive breadth and complexity of one of the largest universities in the country. The planning process also incorporated input from vital stakeholders, including alumni, friends and community leaders. Broadly, Ohio State’s mission and values have naturally guided the strategic planning process. Through its mission, the university is dedicated to: - Teaching and Learning: Ohio State will be an exemplar of the best teaching, demonstrating leadership by adopting innovative, at-scale approaches to teaching and learning to improve student outcomes. - Access, Affordability and Excellence: Ohio State will further our position as a leading public university offering an excellent, affordable education and promoting economic diversity. - Research and Creative Expression: Ohio State will enhance our position among the top national and international public universities in research and creative expression, both across the institution and in targeted fields – driving significant advances for critical societal challenges. - Academic Health Care: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center will continue our ascent as a leading academic medical center, pioneering breakthrough health care solutions and improving people’s lives. - Operational Excellence and Resource Stewardship: Ohio State will be an exemplar of best practices in resource stewardship, operational effectiveness, and efficiency and innovation. Ohio State’s core values are: excellence; diversity in people and of ideas; inclusion; access and affordability; innovation; collaboration and multidisciplinary endeavor; and integrity, transparency and trust.

Framework 2.0 is a long-term guiding vision and a collaborative update of the 2010 Framework 1.0 plan, which imagines transformational research and learning environments over the next decade and beyond. This plan is a guide for stewardship of our physical campus, focusing more on the campus’ needs and capacity than on specific proposals. A living, flexible plan designed to allow for modification based on strategy over the next decade and beyond, Framework 2.0 supports the academic mission while maintaining and improving green areas. The framework is guided by five principles: collaboration, innovation, high-quality facilities, connectivity and sustainability. https://pare.osu.edu/sites/default/files/framework2.0_final_plan_presentation.pdf Ohio State’s 2020 Vision lays out the five-year strategy and prioritizes the following overarching areas of focus: access, affordability and excellence; community engagement; and diversity and inclusion. As part of the roll-out for 2020 Vision Plan, Ohio State is using its partnerships and massive alumni base to pay it forward both on and off campus; with the goal to foster Campus-to-Community, Students-to-Alumni Culture of sustainability-oriented practices and educational and research experiences that students and alumni transfer into local and global communities. Ohio State’s 2020 Vision: https://president.osu.edu/assets/uploads/FINAL%20DRAFT_2020_Vision_one-pager_6.pdf

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topics including education. Ohio State is committed to providing an educational experience that inspires a new generation of global citizens. Accordingly, sustainability education is thoughtfully and intentionally integrated into the student experience. In late 2015, Ohio State created the goal to deliver a curriculum that provides Ohio State students at all stages of instruction – from General Education to professional and technical programs – with opportunities to understand sustainability holistically, framed by the environment, science, technology, society, the economy, history, culture, and politics.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topics including research. As one of the country’s leading research universities, Ohio State has made important contributions to sustainability science, technology, and human behavior. The university strives to integrate the recognized works of its faculty researchers and apply this expertise to problems on local, regional, national, and international scales. Sustainability efforts at Ohio State are embedded into the full range of university activities and with the university’s strategic sustainability goals, which supports Ohio State's overarching core goals of teaching and learning, research and innovation, outreach and engagement, and resource stewardship. Ohio State has two sustainability goals for research and innovation: • Magnify Sustainability Scholarly Output and Impact to create new knowledge, solve real world problems, including for our own operations, and increase Ohio State’s national/international reputation as a sustainability research leader. • Reward Sustainability Scholarship, including the scholarship of engagement, by providing incentives for students, faculty and staff to make discoveries and stimulate creative efforts that promote and achieve sustainability. As part of achieving these goals, Ohio State has selected three Discovery Themes to promote the research, teaching and engagement surrounding sustainability issues. These three programs are up and running at the university and will each be hiring faculty explicitly to enhance Ohio State’s expertise and impact within and across the three areas. The Discovery Themes Initiative funding will allow for an 8% to 10% net increase in the tenured/tenure-track faculty, in accordance with the university’s stated strategic vision.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the specific methodologies designed to guide the achievement of its stated sustainability goals and objectives. The Sustainability Plan focuses on a broad range of topics which include, among other things, campus outreach and engagement. Ohio State views collaboration with students, faculty and staff populations as critical to the successfully achievement of its stated sustainability goals. The university formally engages the campus community through specific channels (such as advisory councils and review committees) that address emerging areas of concern while enhancing opportunities for deliberation, civic understanding, and decision-making. Furthermore, these campus engagement methods are also enhanced by the university’s overarching engagement goal of catalyzing Engagement, Ownership, and Support for Sustainability via inclusive and engaged partnerships that support the long-term economic, social and environmental welfare of the campus, surrounding neighborhoods, Central Ohio, and the global community. Ohio State's Engagement Mission: https://engage.osu.edu/docs/Engagement_MissionVision.pdf

Ohio State’s 2020 Vision plan acknowledges the university’s role in shaping the intellectual, economic, and social environment of Central Ohio while outlining the university’s five-year strategy designed to prioritize the following overarching areas of focus: access, affordability and excellence; diversity and inclusion, and public engagement. As part of the Community Engagement efforts associated with the 2020 Vision Plan, Ohio State is leveraging its vast research prowess, cutting-edge partnerships, and massive alumni base to pay it forward both on and off campus. The university’s primary community engagement goal is to foster a Campus-to-Community environment whereby students and alumni can learn/share sustainability-oriented practices and educational/research experiences that they can take back with them into their local and global community’s. Ohio State’s 2020 Vision: https://president.osu.edu/assets/uploads/FINAL%20DRAFT_2020_Vision_one-pager_6.pdf https://www.campuspartners.org/what-we-do

As a signatory of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, Ohio State has the goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Ohio State developed a Climate Action Plan (CAP) which describes a portion of the steps Ohio State has taken to reduce GHG emissions and its ideas for future steps toward a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. The CAP lays out the measurable objectives through the mitigation strategies, which includes meeting Green Building Standards Energy Utilization Index (EUI) reduction targets, achieving Conservation Outreach and Behavioral Change through outreach and education to the broader campus population, and implementing Energy Conservation Measures to increase infrastructure efficiency.

The Framework 2.0 Plan is a collaborative guide for stewardship of the physical campus and its vibrant mixed-use districts; with a focus on sustainability through mandating no net new academic space, emphasizing a pedestrian core and increasing investments in transit while reducing net energy consumption, growing alternative energy sources, managing material usage, prioritizing reuse and recycling, and championing greenspace and natural habitats on campus. Sustainability concepts underlie the entire Framework 2.0 Plan. Measurable Objectives: Ohio State calculates the total building space as well as the total conditioned space for the entire university. Since the inception of the Framework 2.0 Plan, the university has followed the no net new academic space guidelines by either renovating existing buildings or demolishing buildings to allow for new construction. Source: 2017 Ohio State University, Framework 2.0 Final Plan

Ohio State developed a Climate Action Plan (CAP) which describes a portion of the steps Ohio State has taken to become more energy efficient. The CAP lays out the measurable objectives through mitigation strategies, which includes meeting Green Building Standards Energy Utilization Index (EUI) reduction targets, achieving Conservation Outreach and Behavioral Change through outreach and education to the broader campus population, while implementing Energy Conservation Measures to increase infrastructure efficiency. Energy central to sustainability at Ohio State. The university closely monitors its Energy Utilization Index (MMBTU per square foot of conditioned space) and has the goal to reduce total campus building energy consumption by 25% by 2025. This will be achieved through reductions in demand and improvements upon energy supply.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topics including the food systems at Ohio State. The Sustainability Plan identifies the importance of Ohio State’s food systems to both the community’s health and the region’s economy. Dining Services within the Office of Student Life closely tracks the percentage of purchased food products classified as local and/or sustainably sourced. Additionally, as part of Ohio State purchasing policy, preference is given to local providers. The purchasing data along with the preference given to local providers assists the university in reaching its food sustainability goal to increase production and purchase of locally and sustainably sourced food to 40% by 2025.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topics including the campus grounds The University’s grounds goal is to double the acreage that provides at least two ecosystem services, by 2025. Ohio State achieve this goal by supporting learning, student success, and research innovation by utilizing campus as an Outdoor Living Lab for ecosystem services and by implementing operational strategies and policies to enhance ecosystem services; improve environmental and public health and quality of life for students, faculty, staff, and the community. Short term milestones are to: • establish a Living Labs Program • Incorporate an Ecosystem Services Assessment (ESA) into the University’s Green Build Policy • Conduct a cultural values survey • Conduct a BioBlitz for the university • Create a Landscape Management Plan Source: University panel on ecosystem service report – May 2018

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies designed to achieve university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topic including current and future efforts around university purchasing. Ohio State is committed to resource conservation by giving preference to local providers of products and services by participating in the Buy Ohio Program. Under that program, a 5% economic preference is afforded during the bidding process to those vendors located in Ohio and from bordering states. Moving forward, the university has the purchasing goal to develop university-wide standards for targeted environmentally preferred products and fully implement preferable products and services by 2025.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of transportation topics including trip reduction, fuel conservation, and vehicle emissions reductions. Ohio State has a transportation goal to reduce the carbon footprint of university fleet by 25% by 2025. Ohio State’s is committed to this goal by its continued strong support for sustainable transportation initiatives aimed to reduce on-campus stationary combustion and fleet combustion emissions. Currently, Ohio State has purchased nine (9) compressed natural gas (CNG) buses for its Campus Area Bus Service (CABS) fleet and is embarking on a long-range plan to transition the remaining fleet of diesel-powered buses over to cleaner-burning CNG. Additionally, Ohio State’s Vehicle Idling Policy ensures that university vehicles and equipment are operated and maintained in a manner that minimizes air pollution, maximizes fuel efficiency, and reduces wear to the vehicle.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topics including the management of waste. Ohio State has the sustainability goal to achieve zero waste by 2025 by diverting 90% of waste away from landfills. Ohio State closely tracks total waste measured by weight. Using best practices including conducting waste audits, reducing materials flows, reusing materials where possible and increasing recycling and composting; Ohio State’s Columbus campus has more than doubled its diversion rate since 2004.

Ohio State’s Sustainability Plan is a comprehensive document that outlines the methodologies to achieve the comprehensive university-wide sustainability efforts. The Sustainability Plan has a focus on a range of topics including the management of water. Ohio State closely tracks its potable water consumption and has set the goal to reduce potable water consumption by 5% per capita every five years, resetting the baseline every 5 years. Annual reductions will be achieved through several best practices including water use management, demand reduction, water reuse, and stormwater reduction and cleansing.

Ohio State’s 2020 Vision lays out the five-year strategy leading to Ohio State’s sesquicentennial, prioritizing three overarching areas of focus: access, affordability and excellence; community engagement; and diversity and inclusion. As part of the access, affordability and excellence focus of the 2020 Vision will Reduce student financial burden by freezing costs for in-state undergraduate students for 2016-17, expanding student aid through an initiative to dedicate at least $400 million by 2020 to lower students' costs to low- and middle-income students, focusing on excellence through a new teaching and learning advisory council; and by leading the national conversation as a charter participant in the University Innovation Alliance, which consists of 11 universities working on access, affordability and excellence. https://president.osu.edu/2020-vision/access-affordability-and-excellence.html

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Your Plan For Health has numerous challenges, all of which have measurable objectives from simply completing a Biometric Screening to obtain required health information to competitions that allow participants to earn rewards along the way.

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