Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.81
Liaison Dave Barbier
Submission Date July 17, 2012
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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Shelly Janowski
Sustainability Coordinator
Facility Services
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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:

Presentations on UWSP initiatives have been shared at annual meetings with other UW campuses and the Sustainability Workgroup, University of Wisconsin System Administration. Presentations are posted on the UW-System sustainability website that shares system-wide and individual campus information.

UW-Extension Cooperative publications are available online.

The Center for Land Use Education has produced a series of publications, some with the Department of Natural Resources and the Office of Land Information Services of the Department of Administration. The Center for Land Use Education is a joint venture of Cooperative Extension and the College of Natural Resources at UW-Stevens Point.
http://www4.uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter/sustainability.html


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 (AASHE)

University of Wisconsin-System Sustainability Coordinators Consortium
American Colleges and Universities Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC)

Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS)

Stevens Point Eco-Municipality

Sustainable Communities Public Policy Forum Wisconsin http://sustainablecommunitiesforum.wisconsin.edu/


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

Sustainability Coordinators from each of the UW System campuses meet at least annually for a sustainability conference and participate in monthly teleconferences.

UW Extension sustainability team maintains a University of Wisconsin - Extension (UWEX) institutional framework for understanding and promoting sustainability across all program areas and divisions. The Team engages in both internal capacity building and strategic external educational programming. See "Sustainable Communities Capacity Center" website http://www3.uwsuper.edu/sustainability/

Extension specialists on campuses of the University of Wisconsin System teach, conduct applied research and interpret research of other scholars in response to local and state needs.
UW System and UW Extension are sponsors of the Sustainable Communities Public Policy Forum.


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