SCUP Topical Resources Pages

Sustainability in Higher Education

The Society for College and University Planning became more deeply involved nearly half a decade ago, when our board of directors realized that there may well be no better area than campus sustainability in which to apply two of the society's core values: "Integrated planning in support of excellence in the academic enterprise" and "Innovative, collaborative, and multidisciplinary approaches to planning issues." Since then we've worked to get to know the leaders in sustainability for higher education, and to provide learning experiences and resources for SCUP members, our wider constituency, and others.


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SCUP Resources

SCUP Sustainability Knowledge Community: A Lyris-based email list where SCUP shares items of interest and members have the opportunity to discuss them and also share items. Anyone may join.

HESA: SCUP sent 70 federal legislators letters in support of the Higher Education Sustainability Act, which would provide $50M of funding for campus-ba

SCUP White Paper (PDF) : We Rise to Play a Greater Part: Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Converge in Search of Leadership from the Top—share it freely. More than 10,000 copies have been downloaded since October 2005.

Sustainability Report (PDF), "A (recycled, of course) Six-Pack of Sustainability Lessons from the Past Year in Higher Education"

Planning for Higher Education Special Issue: Sustainability: Taking the Long View

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Other Resources and Events

2008 Collegiate Environmental
Sustainability Conference

Spelman College
Atlanta, Georgia
October 23–24, 2008

The goal of this conference is to ensure that you will acquire essential information to immediately implement sustainability practices at your colleges and universities. To learn more visit: www.epa.gov/region4/greencolleges/index.html

Building Design and Construction magazine published a substantial white paper on professional attitudes and understanding about green building. SCUP members were surveyed once again as this is a follow-up from a similar study conducted in 2004. Here's the higher education portion of that report (PDF).

Did you miss the webinar HEASC presented in June, "Education For a Sustainable Future"? Visit www.aashe.org/heasc/profdev.php to download the presentation.

Here's a link that will bring up a predefined GooglePrint (beta) search which locates books about sustainability in higher education.

The Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide is highly recommended by former SCUP president Trudis Heinecke. She says, "It may be the best 'practical' site that I have found. It has great process graphics and walks through the process of setting goals, strategies, and performance measures in each step of the planning, design, construction, and operation phases. And there are worksheets for each phase of the process."

News

Here's a link that will bring up a predefined Google search of media news about sustainability in higher education. Very useful!

Forthcoming SCUP Events

See SCUP's event calendar for complete listing.

Campus Sustainability Day 6.0 coming October 22, 2008.

The most comprehensive calendar of sustainability-related events in higher education is maintained by the University Leaders for A Sustainable Future (ULSF).

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