University of South Florida (Tampa)
PAE-14: Sustainability in New Employee Orientation

Sustainability efforts are addressed at USF in our new employee orientation called Welcome to USF. While reviewing USF’s Culture of Excellence, we list examples of Engagement, Achievement, Discovery, & Collaboration. We point out the achievements and discovery in the areas of solar power and electric cars, and other green technology. In addition, we point out the many ways to commute to work and around the campus with ride sharing, the Bull Runner, and the WeCar. We also cover these items in the opening PowerPoint presentation for 500 new employees a year: • Patel College of Global Sustainability offers a dual master’s degree in sustainability and green technology, hosted a UN global meeting, is part of the UN-Habitat Partner University Initiative, and USF was the first North American university to join that initiative. • We mention that USF ranked 12th on Sierra magazines “America’s coolest schools” list in 2012 for advances in sustainability in research and education, USF has a gold rating for building an environmentally-conscious campus, and USF has an NSF grant to turn wastewater in usable water. • We cover the CUTR (Center for Urban Transportation Research) and car-sharing initiatives including We-car, Zimride, the Bull Runner and U-pass with Hart. • We point out the new Interdisiplinary Sciences building (ISA), which is LEED certified, as is the Patel center. • A campus tour points out Bull Runner stops, the Patel Center and CUTR among other places.