Wake Forest University
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

Wake Forest University Sustainability Working Group Charter Purpose: The purpose of the Sustainability Working Group at Wake Forest University is to serve the need to work collaboratively across multiple areas of campus operations, academics, and student life to achieve campus sustainability goals. The group will: o Gather data for sustainability assessment framework(s) as needed o Develop collaborative initiatives that improve the sustainability of the campus o Develop guidelines and policies for campus sustainability o Develop a long-range sustainability action plan for campus Composition: The working group is comprised of staff, faculty, and student members whose work actively supports the university’s guiding principles for sustainability. In accordance with the purpose of the group, the members should represent departments, units, and campus organizations that actively work to increase the sustainability of the university. The group is not an advisory group.

Representatives from the following departments, units, and campus organizations are charter members of the group: Residence Life and Housing CEES Athletics Dining Services Communications and External Relations Office of Multicultural Affairs Purchasing Department Information Services Landscaping Services Waste Reduction and Recycling Planning and Construction Maintenance and Utilities Environmental Health & Safety Parking and Transportation Custodial Services Student Government Representatives should be designated by a dean, department chair, or director.

The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to encourage and facilitate the collaborative efforts of faculty, students, and staff to generate knowledge, acquire skills, develop values, and initiate practices that contribute to a sustainable, high quality of life on campus, in the Triad, and across the globe. The Office of Sustainability supports faculty, students, and staff in assuming leadership to transform the following fifteen guiding principles into practices: Stewardship Service and Outreach Teaching and Research Energy Conservation and Climate Change Land and Resource Management Dining and Food Systems Built Environment Waste Reduction Procurement Transportation Health and Wellbeing Equity Cultural Climate Investment Development

The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to encourage and facilitate the collaborative efforts of faculty, students, and staff to generate knowledge, acquire skills, develop values, and initiate practices that contribute to a sustainable, high quality of life on campus, in the Triad, and across the globe. The director is responsible for enacting the mission of the office.

The Sustainability Working Group was chartered in 2010 but members were not recruited until 2011. The Office of Sustainability and the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability will hire a joint Program Assistant in January 2011. The office employs 10 undergraduate interns.