Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 62.54
Liaison Lisa Noriega
Submission Date Sept. 21, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Yale University
EN-11: Inter-Campus Collaboration

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Brianne Mullen
Urban Sustainability Program Associate
Yale Office of Sustainability
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Is the institution an active member of a national or international sustainability network?:
Yes

The name of the national or international sustainability network(s):
Global University Climate Forum International Sustainable Campus Network International Alliance of Research Universities

Is the institution an active member of a regional, state/provincial or local sustainability network?:
Yes

The name of the regional, state/provincial or local sustainability network(s):
Ivy Plus Sustainability Working Group Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Connecticut Alliance for Campus Sustainability Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

Has the institution presented at a sustainability conference during the previous year? :
Yes

A list or brief description of the conference(s) and presentation(s):
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (October 2015, Minneapolis) - Aligning GHG inventory protocols across the Ivy+ Sustainability Consortium Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference (April 2016, Baltimore) - Town-gown partnerships

Has the institution submitted a case study during the previous year to a sustainability awards program that is inclusive of multiple campuses? :
No

A list or brief description of the awards program(s) and submission(s):
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Has the institution had staff, students or faculty serving on a board or committee of a sustainability network or conference during the previous three years? :
Yes

A list or brief description of the board or committee appointment(s):
Amber Garrard, Co-Chair, Connecticut Alliance for Campus Sustainability Melissa Goodall, Chair, Sustainable Campus Initiative, International Alliance of Research Universities; External Advisor for Strategic Planning, University of Massachusetts Boston Center for Governance and Sustainability

Does the institution have an ongoing mentoring relationship with another institution through which it assists the institution with its sustainability reporting and/or the development of its sustainability program?:
Yes

A brief description of the mentoring relationship and activities:
Melissa Goodall, Associate Director of the Yale Office of Sustainability, is a member of the Addis Ababa University Sustainability Plan Committee.

Has the institution had staff, faculty, or students serving as peer reviewers of another institution’s sustainability data (e.g. GHG emissions or course inventory) and/or STARS submission during the previous three years?:
Yes

A brief description of the peer review activities:
A staff member of the Office of Sustainability reviewed and wrote a letter of support for a STARS Innovation Credit submitted by Green Mountain College in 2016.

Has the institution participated in other collaborative efforts around sustainability during the previous year, e.g. joint planning or resource sharing with other institutions? :
Yes

A brief description of other collaborative efforts around sustainability during the previous year:
Yale is a member of the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium. Members of this group contribute monetary and other resources to a joint planning, networking, and engagement effort for the exchange of campus sustainability solutions common to all of our campuses. In addition, Yale participated in the International Alliance of Research Universities Sustainability Fellowships program during the summer of 2015, during which two Yale students worked at Cambridge and Peking Universities, and a student from Oxford worked at Yale.

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