| Overall Rating | Bronze |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 36.20 |
| Liaison | Laurel Pikcunas |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2022 |
University of Hawaii at Manoa
PA-1: Sustainability Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Matthew
Lynch Director UH System Office of Sustainability |
Does the institution have at least one sustainability committee?:
The charter or mission statement of the committee(s) or a brief description of each committee's purview and activities:
The ISR Curriculum Committee fosters multidisciplinary curricular programs that empower students to meet the critical challenges of bridging local to global, problems to solutions.
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/isr/about/
The UH Mānoa Sustainability Council (UHMSC) provides a monthly forum for communication between students, faculty, and staff regarding campus sustainability projects, events, and initiatives. http://manoa.hawaii.edu/sustainability/msc/
Members of each committee, including affiliations and role:
ISR Curriculum Committee:
Malia Akutagawa, Associate Professor, Representing Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
Marguerite Butler, Associate Professor, Representing the College of Natural Sciences
Christopher Cannon, Assistant Professor, Representing Shidler College of Business
Pauline Chinn, Professor, Representing College of Education
Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Associate Professor, Representing the College of Arts, Languages, and Letters
Michael Guidry, Specialist, Representing the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Mikey Kantar, Assistant Professor, Representing the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
Jonathan Padwe, Associate Professor, Representing the College of Social Sciences
Guohui Zhang, Associate Professor, Representing the College of Engineering
UH Mānoa Sustainability Council
Philip Johnson, Director (Information and Computer Sciences Faculty)
Philip organizes monthly meetings that are open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members. There are no other set positions in the sustainability council.
Does the institution have at least one sustainability office that includes more than 1 full-time equivalent employee?:
A brief description of each sustainability office:
The Institute for Sustainability and Resilience (ISR) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa aims to help Hawaiʻi meet our local and global obligations to environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on promoting well-being from the lens of community resilience.
ISR provides a campus-wide focus for instructional, research and outreach programs relating to sustainability and resilience in Hawaiʻi, as lessons from our islands can help provide global solutions. ISR fosters multidisciplinary curricular programs that empower students to meet the critical challenges of bridging local to global, problems to solutions. http://manoa.hawaii.edu/isr/
Full-time equivalent of people employed in the sustainability office(s):
Does the institution have at least one sustainability officer?:
Name and title of each sustainability officer:
Does the institution have a mechanism for broad sustainability coordination for the entire institution?:
A brief description of the activities and substantive accomplishments of the institution-wide coordinating body or officer during the previous three years:
ISR and the ISR Director provide a platform for campus-wide coordination within multiple sustainable areas, notably curriculum coordination and development, campus-wide sustainability engagement, and sustainability-focused research.
Notable ISR accomplishments are launching an interdisciplinary BA in Sustainability via Interdisciplinary Studies, launching an interdisciplinary certificate in Sustainability, collaborating with the City & County of Honolulu to launch its first Climate Action Plan (see resilientoahu.org), released in April 2020.
The ISR Director also serves as UH Mānoa's representative to the System Sustainability Curriculum Coordination Council (SSCCC).
Job title of the sustainability officer position:
Job description for the sustainability officer position:
Job description for the sustainability officer position:
Job title of the sustainability officer position (2nd position):
Job description for the sustainability officer position (2nd position):
Job description for the sustainability officer position (2nd position):
Job title of the sustainability officer position (3rd position):
Job description for the sustainability officer position (3rd position):
Job description for the sustainability officer position (3rd position):
Website URL where information about the institution’s sustainability coordination is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The UH (System) Office of Sustainability is responsible for broad sustainability coordination for the entire 10-campus university system.
The UH (System) Office of Sustainability functions as a backbone organization, working with across UH campuses to complement, support and enhance the existing sustainability work under way, and to provide coordination capacity for campuses to share information and resources with each other to accelerate action to strengthen the environmental, social, cultural and economic health of our islands’ communities.
The Sustainability Curriculum Coordination Council (SSCCC) was established by EP 4.202 to provide coordination, support and advice to the campuses regarding scholarly, scientific and community-engaged research projects in sustainability; integrating sustainability into existing courses across the curriculum; developing new sustainability courses, programs, certificates and degrees; and supporting and assisting current sustainability degree programs to evolve, excel and flourish. The SSCCC reports directly to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, however lacks any full-time staff or credit release time to support its function.
https://tinyurl.com/UHexecpolicy
The UH (System) Office of Sustainability is responsible for broad sustainability coordination for the entire 10-campus university system.
The UH (System) Office of Sustainability functions as a backbone organization, working with across UH campuses to complement, support and enhance the existing sustainability work under way, and to provide coordination capacity for campuses to share information and resources with each other to accelerate action to strengthen the environmental, social, cultural and economic health of our islands’ communities.
The Sustainability Curriculum Coordination Council (SSCCC) was established by EP 4.202 to provide coordination, support and advice to the campuses regarding scholarly, scientific and community-engaged research projects in sustainability; integrating sustainability into existing courses across the curriculum; developing new sustainability courses, programs, certificates and degrees; and supporting and assisting current sustainability degree programs to evolve, excel and flourish. The SSCCC reports directly to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, however lacks any full-time staff or credit release time to support its function.
https://tinyurl.com/UHexecpolicy
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