Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.37
Liaison Suchi Daniels
Submission Date Jan. 14, 2014
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University of South Florida (Tampa)
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Kebreab Ghebremichael
Director of Water Sustainability Concentration
Patel College of Global Sustainability
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Does the institution have a sustainability committee?:
Yes

The charter or mission statement of the committee or a brief description of the committee's purview and activities :

The Sustainability Initiative Steering Committee serves as both an advisory group and as an advocacy group that actively participates in sustainability initiatives with the Office of Sustainability staff. Both groups share a common mission and vision: to “coordinate and build partnerships for university-wide initiatives that advance the University of South Florida’s strategic goal of creating a sustainable campus environment. To achieve this mission, we actively support faculty, staff, students, alumni, and neighborhood partners in their efforts to transform the University of South Florida into a ‘Green University’, where decisions, structural and routine, consider both individual and collective impacts to our campus, community, economy, and environment.

Both groups also share a common set of values and goals: “As citizen-scholar activists, we share a sustainability ethic that promotes conserving resources, reducing waste, recycling and reusing materials, finding new sources of clean energy, increasing energy efficiency, and diminishing life-cycle impacts and our consumption of greenhouse gas producing materials. We engage in this ethic of stewardship to guide the development and implementation of programs, policies, and other courses of action in the operation and management of the University of South Florida as well as its institutional teaching, research, and service commitments.” The history of activities of the Sustainability Initiative Steering committee is documented on the Provost’s Office website, and the evolving functions of the committee are reported on the Office of Sustainability website. http://www.acad.usf.edu/Office/Strategic-Initiatives/Sustain-A-Bull-USF.htm


Members of the committee, including affiliations:

Sujit Chemburkar, Director: Marshall Student Center
Loughren Christina, Intercollegiate Athletics
George Cotter, Associate Director: Purchasing & Property
Nainan Desai, Assistant Director: Physical Plant Auxiliary Svc
Barbara Donerly, Assistant Director: Facilities Planning
Kebreab Ghebremichael, Faculty and Director of the Office of Sustainability
Sara Hendricks, Faculty: Center for Urban Transportation Research
Elizabeth Kaplon, Program Director: Housing & Residential Education
Raymond Mensah, Director: Parking Services
Joseph Michalsky, Student Assistant: SG Executive Branch, Student Civil & Environmental Engineering
Shawna Necka, Prof Services: Patel College of Global Sustainability
Lakeshia Walker, Admitted Student: Pre-Nursing
Laurie Walker, Faculty: School of Geosciences


The website URL where information about the sustainability committee is available:
Does the institution have a sustainability office?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability office:

The Office of Sustainability coordinates and builds partnerships for university-wide initiatives that advance the University of South Florida's strategic goal of creating a sustainable campus environment.

To accomplish this mission, we actively support faculty, staff, students, alumni, and neighborhood partners in their efforts to transform the University of South Florida into a 'Green University', where decisions—structural and routine—consider both individual and collective impacts to our campus, community, economy, and environment. As citizen-scholar activists, we share a sustainability ethic that promotes conserving resources, reducing waste, recycling and reusing materials, finding new sources of clean energy, increasing energy efficiency, and diminishing life-cycle impacts and our consumption of greenhouse gas producing materials. We engage in this ethic of stewardship to guide the development and implementation of programs, policies, and other courses of action in the operation and management of the University of South Florida system as well as its institutional teaching, research, and service commitments.


The number of people employed in the sustainability office:
3

The website URL where information about the sustainability office is available:
Does the institution have a sustainability coordinator?:
Yes

Sustainability coordinator's name:
Dr. Kebreab Ghebremichael

Sustainability coordinator's position title:
Director, Office of Sustainability

A brief description of the sustainability coordinator’s position:

The Director works closely with the faculty, students, the regional campuses, the Sustainability Initiaitive Steering Committee campus, Tree Care Plan Committee, and Student Green Energy Fund Council

Primary responsibilities include:
• The overall management of the Office of Sustainability,
• The development of reports, programs, and policies related to operational sustainability for university facilities and infrastructure,
• Responding to funding initiatives,
• The development and execution of a strategic communication plan, and discussion of future academic plans.

The Director works in close conjunction with Academic Affairs, which is responsible for the development of programs and policies relating to sustainability in teaching and research on campus. Joseph Dorsey and Shawna Neckar maintain the day to day operations of the Office of Sustainability.


The website URL where information about the sustainability coordinator is available:
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