Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 35.30
Liaison Nadine Johnson
Submission Date Feb. 10, 2014
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Estrella Mountain Community College
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Nadine Johnson
Sustainability Co-Chair
Academic Affairs
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Does the institution have a sustainability committee?:
Yes

The charter or mission statement of the committee or a brief description of the committee's purview and activities :

EMCC Sustainability Mission

The mission of the EMCC Sustainability Team is to promote environmental, economic, and social responsibility by providing advocacy, education, activities, and recommendations to students, faculty, staff and the surrounding communities.

EMCC Sustainability Vision

We envision a college community whose behaviors and attitudes are aligned with sustaining a quality of life that does not diminish the potential for the quality of life for future generations. With this guiding principle of environmental stewardship in mind, the goals of the Sustainability Team are to:

EMCC Sustainability Goals

To educate by defining and modeling sustainability for the campus community.
To advocate for sustainability in Teaching & Learning across the curriculum.
To foster a cultural shift in EMCC practices to promote sustainability initiatives
To communicate EMCC Sustainability programs/initiatives to the internal and external communities.
To recommend business practices that reduce, reuse and recycle resources.
To document EMCC’s sustainability efforts for assessment and benchmarking.


Members of the committee, including affiliations:

Team Co-Chairs
Nadine Scowden, Curriculum Technician and
Rachel Smith, Biology Faculty

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Does the institution have a sustainability office?:
No

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Does the institution have a sustainability coordinator?:
No

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