Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.97
Liaison Catherine Lockhart
Submission Date June 17, 2013
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Lawrence University
PAE-1: Sustainability Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Kathleen Isaacson
Associate Professor / Chair Committee on Sustainability 2012-2013
Library
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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 :

Green Roots: The Sustainable Lawrence Initiative was launched officially at the Matriculation Convocation on September, 25 2008. The goal of the initiative is to focus the attention of the university at large on issues pertaining to sustainability. To that end a committee was formed and charged with task of coordinating university operations and programming related to sustainability.

In the Spring of 2010, Green Roots, upon the recommendation of the Faculty Committee on University Governance (FCUG), was approved by the faculty of Lawrence University as a presidential committee. The official title is the President’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability.


Members of the committee, including affiliations:

Kathleen Isaacson, Chair (Library)

Judith Humphries (Biology)

Martyn Smith (Religious Studies)

Greg Griffin (Campus Center director)

Daniel Meyer (Facility Services director)

Elizabeth Crean (Residence Life staff)

Hilary Haskell (student representative)

Hannah Plummer (student representative)

Austin Federa (student representative)


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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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