Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 38.68
Liaison Eric Meliton
Submission Date Nov. 22, 2010
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Wilfrid Laurier University
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Barry Colbert
Associate Professor, Director: The Cooperators Centre for Business and Sustainability
SBE Business
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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:

KW-Otesha is a theater play team in the Kitchener-Waterloo community made up of students from Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. Based on The Otesha Project, a youth-led charitable organization, KW-Otesha mobilizes and equips Canadians to create local and global change through individual and collective choices.

CMA Centre for Business Sustainability:
In May 2010, The CMA-CBS ran a joint workshop with the College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph focused on integrating sustainability concepts into the business curriculum. In attendance were 80 people from 16 post-secondary institutions (universities & colleges).


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

Laurier holds a membership with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Laurier became a member of the Ontario Sustainability Coordinators Association (OSCA) and the Canadian Alliance of College and University Sustainability Professionals (CUSP) in early 2010 when Laurier hired its first Sustainability Coordinator.

The CMA Centre for Business Sustainability is actively engaged with the Aspen Institute on matters of curriculum reform, sustainability case competitions, and campus greening (via Laurier's Net Impact MBA chapter - launched in Fall 2009). They are also separate and founding partners and ongoing sponsors of Sustainable Waterloo, a non-profit organization focused on facilitating carbon emissions reduction for regional organizations, including Laurier as a whole.


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

The CMA Centre for Business Sustainability also engages in research, corporate outreach, and student engagement in matters pertaining to sustainability.


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