“学习, 生活, Lead” is a phrase that was coined by the 玛雅吧首页登入可持续发展研究所 to promote awareness and adoption of sustainability within the University and beyond.
甚至超过了一个短语, the Sustainability Institute used those three words to define three comprehensive goals for the group’s work. When asked to contribute to the 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 Strategic Goal of Sustainability, 可持续发展委员会采纳了该框架来规划自己的战略.
宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 Strategic Plan Reporting for 2017-2018 (Goal 6: Strengthen our commitment to sustainability)
目标6进度更新
学习策略:提高可持续发展意识
宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 began the 2017-2018 year with some already-established practices to support sustainability awareness. 2017-2018年发生了几项显著的改善, however: the campus Sustainability Committee developed a much more vital partnership with the University Sustainability Institute which allowed for increased communication through the committee to the campus. The committee better represented the campus at sustainability events hosted by the Sustainability Institute and became recognized as one of the few campuses to value sustainability enough to write it into the Strategic Plan and to have a charter for its lead group.
LIVE战略:将可持续性融入实践
2017-2018 saw a continuation of operational and applied practices that re-inforce sustainability in a variety of ways. 资讯科技服务, 学术支持中心, 护理课程, and the Office of the Physical Plant are all examples of units that report consistent practicing of sustainability throughout planning and operations. Many additional units on campus have embraced integration of sustainability into regular workflows.
领先战略:合作与创新
协作与创新与可持续发展相辅相成. 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 has partnered with Bartlett Tree Experts to maintain established research tree plots. The Sustainability Committee worked more closely in 2017-2018 with the University’s Sustainability Institute. The campus sought and found external financial sources for improvement projects which increased sustainability factors in different spaces. 和, 2017-2018年,校园职业衣橱有所增长, which pairs contributed business attire from area professionals with students who will be looking for employment and internship opportunities. Campuses across the University are excited about the Career 关闭t and may look to implement similar programs inspired by our own.
目标6结局
2017-2018年,月度知识“花絮”的使用更为广泛. The committee composed and published webpages on the 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 website to increase its digital presence and to provide online resources.
目标6:成功
2016-2017年取得的一些成功在2017-2018年得到了改进, as awareness campaigns increased campus citizens’ understanding of what sustainability actually is, 以及如何将其构建到事件编程中, 学术的期望, 以及操作实践.
Over a dozen faculty report teaching courses with at least one sustainability component. The Occupational Therapy Assistant program is one academic program on campus which uses its own strategic plan and strives to accomplish a sustainability goal. 从福祉的角度来看,PTA的本质是可持续性. MUSIC 009 incorporates a project where students in a group make a musical instrument using recycled materials. MIS 204要求在开发ROI预测时进行业务可持续性分析. 工科学生调查富兰克林县的碳足迹. HDFS students spend significant time discussing issues related to poverty and also examine diverse populations from the perspectives of classmates and clients. These are examples of the incorporation of sustainability at course and programmatic levels for the campus.
目标6:为大学目标做出贡献
While much of the sustainability efforts at 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 focus on the arenas of fiscal and social responsibility, 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 intrinsically trends toward an environmentally-sustainable mindset. 因为可持续性文化是校园身份的基础, activities and pursuits reinforcing and promoting sustainability at 蒙特中音 permeate academics, 学生和玛雅吧首页登入, 公共活动, 并管理全年的商业活动. Other places where Goal Six intersects with University Thematic Priorities are as follows.
改变教育
- 课程中的可持续发展内容
加强卫生
- 鼓励积极的生活方式
管理我们星球的资源
- 意识、实践、协作/创新计划
推进艺术与人文
- 年度回收艺术展
推动数码创新
- 采用科技以负责任地使用能源
目标6障碍/关注点和建议/实施的解决方案
Campus’ difficulties in advancing through the different levels of Green Paws certification: in 2017-2018, the committee reached out to the University Sustainability Institute to propose newly defined levels (more relevant and achievable to the work done by individuals at the campus). The hope of the committee was that a more meaningful program would encourage better participation.
Waste issues as an ongoing problem: the committee adopted an annual theme to give sustainability messaging cohesiveness. 这一主题是在年中通过的, so the committee decided to continue using it through 2018-2019 and then select a new theme for the following academic year.
在2017-2018学年, our committee revisited the structure of the Sustainability Goal (Goal Six) in the 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 Strategic Plan. 我们建议更新可持续发展目标,以强调和报告额外的, 在以前的形式之外实现可持续性成功的不同方面, allowing the campus to better understand and embrace the idea of sustainability as a foundation to everything we work toward.
2017年秋天, the 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 Sustainability Committee recognized that it might need to review its charge and formalize the group to work more effectively. 2018年春季开学, the committee became one of very few official campus groups in the University charged with promoting and reporting on sustainability, 也是少数几个受批准宪章指导的国家之一.