| Overall Rating | Gold |
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| Overall Score | 70.87 |
| Liaison | Daimon Eklund |
| Submission Date | Dec. 23, 2021 |
University of Washington, Seattle
PA-1: Sustainability Coordination
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Daimon
Eklund Communications Manager UW 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 UW Environmental Stewardship Committee provides recommendations to the executive leadership for sustainability and resource conservation policies across all three of our campuses while overseeing progress towards meeting the goals of the UW Sustainability Action Plan.
Committee Role and Structure
The Committee communicates with individuals, groups, and committees across the University, both to gather information about ongoing sustainability measures, and to communicate progress. The Committee also works to identify emerging and growing opportunities for collaboration among academic and administrative units, offering the campus as a learning lab for students and faculty to work with administration on increased operational sustainability.
The Committee reports to the President, Provost, Vice Presidents and Vice Provosts.
The Committee is represented by individuals from seven administrative departments, nine academic units, four students, as well as members from the UW Bothell and UW Tacoma campuses and ex-officio members from the Medical Centers and Housing & Food Services.
The Committee meets several times each academic year.
Members of each committee, including affiliations and role:
2020-2021 Environmental Stewardship Committee members:
Lou Cariello, Chair, Vice President of Facilities
John Schaufelberger, Co-Chair, Professor, College of Built Environment
Claudia Frere-Anderson, Director, UW Sustainability
Stuart Anderson, Assistant Director, Instructional Center, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
Karen Baebler, Assistant Athletics Director, Intercollegiate Athletics
Bruce Balick, Faculty Council on University Facilities & Service
John Chapman, Interim Associate Vice President, Operations, UW Facilities
Allan Cortina, Sustainability Coordinator, UW Tacoma
Alison Cullen, Interim Dean, Evans School of Public Policy
Bob Ennes, Director, Health Sciences Administration, Health Sciences
Doug Galluci, Assistant Director, Environmental Health and Safety
Indroneil Ganguly, Associate Professor, College of the Environment
Hilary Godwin, Dean, School of Public Health
Brad Greer, AVP, IT Infrastructure and CTO, UW-IT
Anthony Guerrero, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Facilities Services, UW Bothell
Gary Handwerk, English Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
Jeremy Hess, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment
Stanley Joshua, Director of Facilities, UW Tacoma
Amy Kim, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineer, College of Engineering
Brian McCartan, Vice President, Finance
Michael J McCormick, Associate Vice President, UW Facilities
Ellen Moore, Teaching Professor and UWT Sustainability Committee Chair, UW Tacoma Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Brenda Nissley, Environmental Sustainability & Waste Manager, Harborview Medical Center
Ben Packard, Executive Director, EarthLab
Rob Pena, Associate Professor, Architecture
Alexa Russo, Sustainability Coordinator, UW Bothell
Pam Schreiber, Director, Housing & Food Services
Barbara Wingerson, Associate Vice President, Finance, UW Facilities
Mia Belting, Residential Community Student Association (RCSA)
Bee Elliot, UW Bothell student representative
Aidan Helt, UW Tacoma student representative
Lee Kane, Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW)
Jessica Kong, Graduate and Professional Student Senate
Carolina Reicart, Campus Sustainability Fund
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:
UW Sustainability coordinates and promotes sustainability programs and initiatives by informing, engaging, and connecting members of the UW community. Established in 2008, UW Sustainability provides leadership and support for the Environmental Stewardship Committee (ESC), the Sustainability Action Plan and coordinates our work under the Sustainability Action Plan. The office gathers and reports data for the online UW Sustainability Dashboard and compiles campus information for rating systems such as STARS. Each year the office organizes a campus-wide sustainability event in the fall and helps organize campus Earth Day events in the spring.
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:
UW Sustainability is tasked with coordinating sustainability efforts across the entire University of Washington, including coordinating efforts under the Sustainability Action Plan, adopted in July 2020. The UW Sustainability team served as the project manager for the planning process, including a trip-campus communications effort to raise awareness and solicit opinions and feedback. Once the plan was adopted, our staff organized working groups and coordinates efforts and the reporting process, as well as the process of planning annual actions to work toward the Plan's targets.
http://green.uw.edu/plan
The annual Sustainability Fair has provided an opportunity for a diverse array of groups across UW to tell their sustainability stories in conjunction with National Campus Sustainability Month.
http://green.uw.edu/fair
UW Sustainability annual organizes large-scale events around Earth Day. In 2020, we were able to successfully transform our plans for a large in-person 50th anniversary event to a number of well-attended virtual events.
http://green.uw.edu/earthday
UW Sustainability worked with executive leaders at the university to host the 2019 Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference.
http://wohesc.org
UW Sustainability provides administrative support to the student-funded Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) which recently passed the $2 million mark in total grants since its creation.
http://csf.uw.edu
UW Sustainability was a founding partner of the Livable City Year program, an EPIC-N program which connects local communities with UW faculty and students to work on real-world projects around livability and sustainability.
http://LCY.uw.edu
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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 information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.