Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.17
Liaison Lori Collins-Hall
Submission Date Feb. 17, 2015
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Sterling College (VT)
EN-10: Inter-Campus Collaboration

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Matthew Derr
President
Administrative
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:

Vermont Higher Education Food Systems Consortium

Sterling College is a founding member of the Vermont Higher Education Food Systems Consortium. Below is a description.

Founded by a coalition of higher education institutions, the Vermont Higher
Education Food Systems Consortium is a statewide organization established in
2013 dedicated to the creation of sustainable and robust regional and global food
system through Vermont-based education, research, outreach, and direct
connection to farm, forest, and value-added agricultural opportunities.
The Consortium will strengthen Vermont’s place as a world-renowned center for
food systems education, research, and outreach. Working together, members of
the Consortium will increase student enrollment in food-systems-related disciplines
in the state, strengthen the capacity of each partnering institution to meet its
mission as it relates to food systems, and serve Vermont’s expanding and
entrepreneurial food system movement.

Sterling College has also hosted workshops for other Vermont colleges on Divestment from Fossil Fuels and various other workshops.

For more information on how Sterling collaborates with other colleges, please contact President Matthew Derr


The names of local, state/provincial, regional, national, or international campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:

Vermont Higher Education Food Systems Consortium

Sterling College is a founding member of the Vermont Higher Education Food Systems Consortium. Below is a description.

Founded by a coalition of higher education institutions, the Vermont Higher
Education Food Systems Consortium is a statewide organization established in
2013 dedicated to the creation of sustainable and robust regional and global food
system through Vermont-based education, research, outreach, and direct
connection to farm, forest, and value-added agricultural opportunities.
The Consortium will strengthen Vermont’s place as a world-renowned center for
food systems education, research, and outreach. Working together, members of
the Consortium will increase student enrollment in food-systems-related disciplines
in the state, strengthen the capacity of each partnering institution to meet its
mission as it relates to food systems, and serve Vermont’s expanding and
entrepreneurial food system movement.


A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :

Sterling College has hosted workshops for other colleges that include divestment from fossil fuels and renewable energy.

Sterling has also partnered with New York University in a food systems studies collaboration. This is a graduate program of study and research that will enable graduate students from NYU to perform research at Sterling College.


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