Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 36.11
Liaison Diane Fout
Submission Date April 23, 2013
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

Transylvania University
PAE-2: Strategic Plan

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.00 / 6.00 Angela Poe
Sustainability Director
Sustainability
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Year the strategic plan or equivalent was completed or adopted:
2,012

Does the institution's strategic plan or equivalent guiding document include the environmental dimensions of sustainability at a high level?:
Yes

A brief description of how the strategic plan or amendment addresses the environmental dimensions of sustainability:

The University’s recently approved Strategic Plan has four key goals: Embrace Innovative Thinking; Develop the Whole Person; Promote Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility; and Enhance Campus Infrastructure Sustainably. One of the key strategies under the third goal, Promote Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility, specifically incorporates sustainability as a tenant of social responsibility. Additionally, sustainability is integrated throughout the fourth goal, Enhance Campus Infrastructure Sustainably, by including the following commitments:
• Construct all new buildings to a LEED silver standard (at a minimum)
• Conduct all major renovations to a LEED silver standard (at a minimum)
• Fully implement the climate action plant, which is currently being drafted
• Serve as a model of sustainable land management.


Does the institution's strategic plan or equivalent guiding document include the social dimensions of sustainability at a high level?:
Yes

A brief description of how the strategic plan or amendment addresses the social dimensions of sustainability:

See above.


Does the institution's strategic plan or equivalent guiding document include the economic dimensions of sustainability at a high level?:
Yes

A brief description of how the strategic plan or amendment addresses the economic dimensions of sustainability:

See above


The website URL where information about the strategic plan is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The plan was actually adopted in January 2013, but the form would not accept 2013 as an answer.


The plan was actually adopted in January 2013, but the form would not accept 2013 as an answer.

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