Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.83
Liaison C Jane Hagen
Submission Date March 2, 2018
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Virginia Commonwealth University
IC-1: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Joseph Costa
Sustainability Projects and Program Coordinator
Sustainability
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Institution type: Associate (i.e., short-cycle), Baccalaureate, Doctoral/Research, or Master's:
Doctoral/Research

Institutional control (Public, Private for-profit, or Private non-profit):
Public

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
Established in 1838, Virginia Commonwealth University is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia. With 13 schools and one college, VCU's campus size is 150 acres in downtown Richmond, with additional branch campuses and satellite locations. Its total undergraduate enrollment for Fall of 2016 was 31,231, and baccalaureate degrees awarded in 2015-2016 amounted to 5,219.

Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
Present? Included?
Agricultural school No No
Medical school Yes Yes
Other professional school with labs and clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) Yes Yes
Satellite campus Yes Yes
Farm larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares Yes Yes
Agricultural experiment station larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares No No
Hospital Yes No

If there are features present that are not included within the boundary, provide:

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
The hospital is excluded because the VCU Medical Center is a separate legal entity from the university.

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