Sustainability Master Plan 2025

ACADEMICS

GOAL: Equip more students (undergraduate,聽graduate and professional) with knowledge and聽skills to address global sustainability challenges in聽collaboration with faculty.

 

 

STRATEGIES

Progress updates for year 1 are below.

Actions for each strategy have been identified and will be prioritized on an annual basis by the implementation team.

S1 Curriculum:聽Determine a baseline and target聽increase for the percentage of students who聽graduate having completed coursework, including聽Experiential Learning Requirements (ELRs), that聽includes sustainability-focused learning outcomes聽by 2028, such that at least 50% of graduates meet聽this criterion by 2035.

  • The team is exploring ways to track sustainability-focused ELRs聽and is working on a sustainability course designation.聽At this time,聽the following metric is being used聽to assess progress:
  • 28% of academic year 2024-2025 graduates completed at least one sustainability-focused course.
28%
50%

S2 Engaged & Experiential Learning: Establish a baseline for student participation in sustainability-focused engaged and experiential learning, both on campus and with community partners, by 2030 and increase student participation by 10% by 2035.

  • The team is exploring ways to track聽sustainability-focused聽engaged and experiential learning.

S3 Research & Creative Inquiry:聽Determine a聽baseline and target increase for the percentage of聽academic departments engaged in sustainability research and creative inquiry, including faculty-mentored聽student research and course-embedded聽research, by 2028, such that at least 85% of聽academic departments meet this criterion by 2035.

  • The team is exploring ways to track sustainability research and creative inquiry that is faculty-mentored and course-embedded.聽At this time, the following metric is being used to assess progress:
  • 66% of academic departments have at least one faculty member doing sustainability聽research.
66%
85%

S4 Tracking: Design and implement methods to聽track involvement of students, faculty and staff in聽sustainability-focused curriculum, sustainability-focused聽engaged and experiential learning, and聽sustainability research and creative inquiry聽experiences by 2030 and provide annual reports聽of involvement.

  • As noted in the above strategies, the team is exploring ways to聽enhance聽the tracking聽of聽the academic sustainability efforts聽identified聽in the strategies.