University of Massachusetts Amherst
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

The Chancellor's Sustainability Committee (formerly EPAC) helps to assess ways to reduce environmental impacts of the campus in a manner which incorporates sound business practices. One of the Committee goals is to enhance the campus' ability to gather, track, and analyze environmental performance data and related information and develop report documents. Another goal is to devise a comprehensive and common-sense way to foster environmental stewardship across the entire organization among and within campus departments, both operational and academic. The Committee advises the Chancellor Leadership Committee (CLC) on all matters related to campus environmental performance including adjustments to operating policies and/or practices. The Committee helped create the UMass climate action plan that will aim for carbon neutrality by 2050.

In 2012 EPAC was renamed and restructured to better serve the campus community and achieve the mission and goals. The Chancellors Sustainability Committee now consists of three tiers: Sub-Committees (meet monthly), Implementation Team (meets monthly), and Executive Team (meets quarterly). There are nine Sub-Committees: Communications Education and Research Food and Dining Finance Green Building Master Planning Residential Life Transportation Waste and Procurement The Implementation Team consists of each of the nine Sub-Committee Chairs plus the Sustainability Committee Chair: Ezra Small (Chair) Campus Sustainability Manager Victoria Rosen (Communications Chair) Sustainability Communications & Marketing Manager, University Relations Craig Nicolson (Education & Research Co-Chair) Director of Academic Sustainability Programs, Professor in Dept of Environmental Conservation William Wooldridge (Education & Research Co-Chair) Chair and Professor, Management Department, Isenberg School of Management Rachel Dutton (Food and Dining Chair) Sustainability Manager for Auxiliary Services Lynn McKenna Assistant Budget Director, Budget Office Patricia O’Flaherty (Green Building Co-Chair) Green Building Researcher, Facilities Planning Ted Mendoza (Green Building Co-Chair) Capital Project Manager, Facilities Planning Division Ludmilla Pavlova (Master Planning Chair) Senior Campus Planner, Campus Planning Monica Rochon (Residential Life Chair) Residence Director, Residence Life Glenn Barrington (Transportation Chair) Assistant Transit Manager, Transportation Services Terri Bechta (Waste and Procurement Chair) Assistant Director of Environmental Hazardous Materials Program, EH&S Executive Team Members: Juanita Holler Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities & Campus Services Andy Mangels Associate Vice Chancellor for Finance and Budget Director Ray Jackson Director, Physical Plant Eddie Hull Executive Director, Residence Life Ken Toong Executive Director of Auxiliary Enterprises Michael Grabscheid Executive Director of Marketing & New Business Development, University Relations Steve Goodwin Dean of the College of Natural Sciences Stephen Schreiber (Faculty Senate Rep) Professor, Chair of the Campus Physical Planning Committee Dennis Swinford Director of Campus Planning, Campus Planning Tom Shaw Interim Director of Design/Construction Mgt Christine McCormick Dean of the School of Education Cheryl L. Dukes Associate Director of Government Relations, Office of Research Development

Our campus hired its first sustainability coordinator in 2009. In addition to the current Campus Sustainability Manager, we also have a new Sustainability Communications Manager (hired in 2013) and a number of full-time sustainability staff who work with Dining Services and Conference Services. The Campus Sustainability Manager (CSM) was hired in 2011, directs the main Sustainable UMass student initiatives on campus and oversees and coordinates all operational aspects of campus sustainability (from developing new clean energy sources to increasing recycling rates to participating in LEED teams for new construction, to establishing a Green Revolving Fund etc). The CSM works closely with the Sustainability Communications Manager and other campus staff and faculty on all sustainability-related projects and programs throughout the university.