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November 2006 Panel |
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Greening the Campus:
Exploring Practices,
Curriculum, and Management in Higher Education
Purchase College (SUNY)
Performing Arts Center 
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, New York
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| Integrating Campus Greening into the Campus Culture |
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| Moderator: |
Bruce Coull View Presentation Biography and Abstract
Dean Emeritus, School of the Environment
Carolina Distinguished Professor
of Marine and Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina |
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Anja Kollmuss View Presentation Biography and Abstract
Outreach Coordinator, Tufts Climate Initiative
Tufts University
Judy Walton View Presentation Biography and Abstract
Executive Director
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability
in Higher Education
Tarah Wright View Presentation Biography and Abstract
Assistant Professor and Director of Environmental Programmes
Dalhousie University |
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Plenary Panel Biographies and Abstracts
Bruce C. Coull
Dr. Coull is the Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the School of the Environment at University of South Carolina.
Born in New York, New York and raised in northern New Jersey, Coull was educated at Moravian College and Lehigh University - both of which are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in North Carolina and an Assistant Professor at Clark University, Massachusetts before joining the University of South Carolina (USC) faculty in 1973. He was a senior Fulbright Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 1981 and a visiting professor in Marine Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in 1994. He is the author of 130 scientific papers and editor of 4 books.
As a Carolina Distinguished Professor and Dean of USC’s School of the Environment, Coull led USC to approach environmental issues through multidisciplinary research, education and community outreach. He headed the South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative (http://www.sc.edu/sustainableu), a multi-university project educating about frugal use of earth’s resources and was the architect of the greening of the University of South Carolina. He also led USC’s environmental efforts in the Ukraine related to the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986. In his emeritus status he directs a USC research project sponsored by the Chicago and New York based Center for Humans and Nature (http://www.humansandnature.org) to effect sensible use of resources in the South Carolina coastal region. Local decision-makers are the target of this project.
Coull is the 2006-2008 President of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors an arm of the National Council for Science and the Environment (http://www.ncseonline.org/CEDD)
ABSTRACT
The University of South Carolina (27,000 students on it flagship campus in Columbia) has been striving to be sustainable in all that it does. In 1999 the President appointed a campus wide Environmental Advisory Committee to effect and provide oversight for the University. In 2000 the Board of Trustees passed an Environmental Policy that states: 1) Faculty, staff and students will understand their impact on the environment; 2) The University will promote sustainability by example and 3) The University will evaluate and monitor progress toward these goals. Examples are provided of a variety of projects related to each of the Board stated goals; including curricular/student innovations; campus greening initiatives from a declaration that all buildings will be built to LEED certification, to recycling in non-traditional ways, to unique energy saving options and, how to report and assess progress to the goals.
Anja Kollmuss
Anja Kollmuss holds a B.A. from Harvard Extension and a M.A. in Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University. She has worked extensively on climate change issues and energy efficiency in residential construction. At the Tufts Climate Initiative (TCI), she manages CO2 reduction projects, supervises student research projects, and is responsible for outreach activities and publications, such as webpage, newsletter, lectures, workshops, etc. When she is not working to protect the climate, she is a musician and also works with a small women's empowerment NGO in India (www.dalitwomenpower.org).
ABSTRACT
The Tufts Climate Initiative (www.tufts.edu/tci) has been working for six years to lower Tufts University's ecological footprint and move the institution to more sustainable operations practices. This presentation will give a short overview of the work we do and address the question of how to prioritize and select projects to maximize the impact we can have as change agents.
Judy Walton
Judy R. Walton is Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). She was a founding member and Executive Director of Education for Sustainability Western Network (EFS West), AASHE’s predecessor organization. Her long-standing interest in sustainability is reflected in her faculty leadership role in campus sustainability efforts at Humboldt State University (1999-2002), her academic work on sustainable cities and livable places, and her green building consultancy work in Washington state. She has delivered presentations to campuses and businesses, assisted with strategic planning, and participated in a nation-wide audiocast on sustainability & higher education (2005). Dr. Walton holds a Ph.D. in geography from Syracuse University, an M.A. in geography from San Diego State University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, San Diego.
ABSTRACT
Colleges and universities range widely across the spectrum of campus sustainability, from those just starting down the path to those recognized as leaders. A challenge for virtually any institution is how to transform campus culture so that sustainability is central to all its activities and campus life. This talk explores a number of tools and strategies for integrating sustainability into campus culture, and offers specific examples. It also examines attempts to measure and assess progress across institutions.
Tarah Wright
Dr. Tarah Wright is the Director of Environmental Programmes in the Faculty of Science at Dalhousie University, and a Senior Research Associate with University Leaders for a Sustainable Future in Washington DC. Tarah focuses her research in the emerging field of higher education for sustainability (HES) and has published papers covering a wide range of issues in sustainability and higher education. Tarah, her husband Daniel, and their 18 month old daughter Lilly make their home in the city of Halifax, in the Acadian Forest Bioregion.
ABSTRACT
Over the past three decades, numerous universities have developed environmental and sustainable development policies. These policies offer broad statements of intent, and often discuss the moral obligation of the university to encourage sustainable development within their institution
and society1.One criticism of such documents, however, is they lack specific directives or action plans through which to achieve the overall goals and objectives of the policy. The development of a policy is a meaningful first step in facilitating institutional change. It can be argued, however, that without an implementation plan, policies will remain as statements of intent, and will not be used to guide the day-to-day activities of the university2.
An implementation plan must offer concrete actions and timelines for achieving the vision outlined in the policy. In order to create an implementation plan that is both desirable and feasible to execute, it is necessary to receive input from all sectors of the university who will be charged with implementing the sustainability policy. This presentation will discuss a Delphi project at Dalhousie University where a panel of students, staff, faculty and administrators generated ideas to incorporate into an implementation plan for the university environmental policy.
This project revealed that a multiple stakeholder process was advantageous as it helped to generate ideas, verify the feasibility of the implementation plan, increases the profile of the environmental policy in the university, and can facilitate a broader ownership of the implementation plan.
1 Wright, T. (2003). Ten Years and Counting: Examining the Implementation of the Halifax Declaration in
Canadian Universities. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (8).
2 Wright, T. S. A. (2002). A Review of Definitions and Frameworks for Sustainability in Higher Education.
International Journal for Sustainability in Higher Education Joint Publication, 3(3). |
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