Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 39.01
Liaison YOLANDA MENDOZA CAVAZOS
Submission Date June 19, 2015
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Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
PA-1: Sustainability Coordination

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Miriam Sanchez Garza
MDE
Sustainability dept
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Does the institution have at least one sustainability committee, office, and/or officer that focuses on sustainability broadly and covers the entire institution?:
Yes

A brief description of the activities and substantive accomplishments of the committee(s), office(s), and/or officer(s) during the previous three years:

1. Develop and coordinate the overall environmental management programs, energy conservation, policies and outreach of sustainability to unify efforts throughout the university.
2. Develop and review a sustainability program through coordination, research and activities of the students, administrative staff and faculty members in order to establish the environmental strategies and objectives of the university.
3. Consolidate a sustainability culture among the students, faculty and staff in order to foster sustainable development of the University
4. Identify and prioritize the institutional sustainability efforts
5. Planning and developing programs in short and long therms
6. Collaborate with the university authorities to integrate sustainability in all the campuses, academic units and schools.
7. Represent all sustainability activities inside the University.
8. Reviewing annual reports and other university policies regarding sustainability.
9. Be the University prolocutor about sustainability topics like: energy, environment, society and welfare.


Does the institution have at least one sustainability committee?:
Yes

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

The Sustainability Committee has the function to develop and supervise the work plan to guarantee that the University will be certified as a sustainable institution, maintaining the distinction permanently.

Among these functions includes:
- The development and promotion of sustainability projects of the university
- Innovative actions to reach sustainability goals of the university.
- Suggest policies, educate the university's community.
- Advise to the president the identification and prioritization of institutional sustainability efforts.


Members of each committee, including affiliations and role (e.g. staff, student, or faculty):

The committee will be presided by the CP. Etienne Enrique Pérez del Río, Dean of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) and including:
• MSc. Marco Antonio Delgado Barrios. Chief of Staff
• MSc. Vallejo David Manzur. Secretary of Extension and Connection
• Dr. Marco Aurelio Leal Navarro. Academic Secretary
• Dr. José Luis Fragoso Pariente. Secretary of Research and Graduate Studies
• MSc. Luis Alonso Sánchez Fernández. Secretary for Administration

The Executive Secretary of the Committee is the MSc. Yolanda Mendoza Cavazos.


The website URL where information about the sustainability committee(s) is available:
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Does the institution have at least one sustainability office that includes more than 1 full-time equivalent (FTE) employee?:
Yes

A brief description of each sustainability office:

Coordinate sustainable strategic efforts of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT)


Full-time equivalent (FTE) of people employed in the sustainability office(s):
3

The website URL where information about the sustainability office(s) is available:
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Does the institution have at least one sustainability officer?:
Yes

Name and title of each sustainability officer:
MSc. Yolanda Mendoza Cavazos.- Excecutive Secretary of the Sustainability University Committe at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

A brief description of each sustainability officer position:

The executive secretary obtained, reports and monitors all sustainable efforts at UAT University:

The functions of the Special Projects Coordination are among:
1) Trail projects and strategic sustainability programs.
2) Manage programs that promote sustainable efforts of the University
3) Collects information on projects related to the area
4) Presents strategic projects related to sustainability
5) Performs projects for submission to the executive secretary of the Sustainable Executive

The Public Communication Coordination of Science and Technology has the following functions:
1) Strengthens scientific research and community outreach.
2) Publish information on projects, agreements, scientific projects and technological academics and students from UAT University research, through the Research Direction.


The website URL where information about the sustainability officer(s) is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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