Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.32
Liaison Andrea Trimble
Submission Date Feb. 15, 2012
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University of Virginia
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Andrew Greene
Sustainability Planner
Office of the Architect
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:

UVA faculty, staff, and students participate in numerous inter-campus forums to advance sustainability, including presentations at conferences, participation in educational programs, and hosting events at the University.

UVA has sent a delegation of over 10 students, faculty and staff to the last three AASHE Conferences (2008, 2010, 2011). Nearly all of those students, faculty and staff have presented at the conferences, with some giving multiple presentations. Topics have included sustainable course development, student sustainability organization, intra-campus collaboration for sustainability, campus nitrogen footprint inventories, transportation demand management, and other topics.


The names of local, state, regional, national, and other campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. American Council on Renewable Energy. Virginia Sustainable Building Network. APPA. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Society for College and University Planning. Association of University Architects.


A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :

The University also participates in multiple inter-campus collaborations to promote research in sustainability. A sampling of these collaborations are listed below:
UVA is the host institution for the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, a partnership among 13 academic institutions created to provide data and networking opportunities to facilitate research on corporate sustainability.

The Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research program works to develop a predictive understanding of the response of coastal barrier systems to long-term environmental changes in climate, sea level and land use, and to relate these to the ecological services the coastal barrier systems provide. The program includes 6 campus partner institutions from Virginia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts.


The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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