Williams College
PRE-3: Institutional Boundary
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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N/A |
Tanja
Srebotnjak Director Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives |
Institution type:
Institutional control:
A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
The Williams College campus is situated in the town of Williamstown in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts. The Berkshires are known for their natural beauty and plentiful outdoor recreational opportunities coupled with eminent cultural attractions. Williamstown is a town of roughly 7,000 and the college campus is a major part of the town's center. Mostly contiguous, the residential campus covers approximately450 acres. The College also owns a number of residential and commercial properties near campus as well as three buildings in Oxford that support the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford University (considered here as a Satellite campus but excluded from our submission). For the purpose of this submission, we consider the campus to consist of the contiguous 450 acres of student residential, academic, athletic and service buildings and spaces. We include the Hopkins Memorial Forest, a 2,600 acre reserve that provides research and curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students. We, furthermore, include the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) for the same reasons.
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 | No | No |
| Other professional school with labs or clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) | No | No |
| Museum | Yes | Yes |
| Satellite campus | Yes | No |
| Farm larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres | No | No |
| Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres | No | No |
| Hospital | No | No |
The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
Residential and commercial spaces are excluded from the institutional boundary because we typically lack operational control and hence access to information on energy and resource use as well as authority for operational changes. We excluded the Oxford satellite campus because it falls under UK and English rules and regulations that do not always align with the STARS criteria.
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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