University of Colorado Boulder
PA-2: Sustainability Planning

The college of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan outlines numerous steps for integrating Sustainability and Research. https://www.colorado.edu/asfacultystaff/sites/default/files/attached-files/as_strategic_plan_revised_approved_1.pdf
Strategic Imperative 3.4: Prioritize our research enterprise by recognizing the intersection
of research and scholarship with teaching and service
Goal: Develop formal mechanisms for recognizing and rewarding researchers whose research
and scholarship intersect with teaching and service.
Action Items:
3.4.1. Encourage researchers to actively mentor and engage students, community
members, and others across the research lifecycle.
3.4.2. Recognize the intersection of research and scholarship with teaching and service
in tenure and promotion processes at both the unit and College levels.

Campus Master Plan (CMP) was adopted in 2011 is updated every 10 years. The CMP iniative includes energy, facilities, housing, and transportation. Some goals include:
- addition of 300 new tenured faculty in the next 10 years
- increase insitutional research funding and expenditures by 5% each year
- increase graduate student enrollment to 20% of the total enrollment
https://www.colorado.edu/masterplan/

The Environmental Center has a strategic plan, part of which focuses on enhancing leadership and engagement. Such foci include:
- We develop student leadership and practical skills from entry to advanced levels through a spectrum of opportunities on campus and in all communities.
- We provide our student employees and volunteers with transferable leadership and sustainability skills inclusive of social equity elements that encourages critical thinking and pragmatic action to be effective in their careers and communities.
- We improve students’ mindfulness of societal and cultural challenges stemming from economic disparity and climate change by insuring each EC program is responsive to these challenges. This approach includes enhancing the understanding of intercultural competence via training and assessment models, and insuring EC programs reflect the larger cultural context (e.g. marketing, web, and social media content are reflective of social diversity). We train staff, students, and campus stakeholders that social equity and justice are key elements of sustainability so they are more relevant, effective, and competitive in their career paths.

Goals:
Goal: Enhance sustainability-leadership training and professional development opportunities
Goal: Expand co-curricular experiential learning opportunities that engage students through a sustainability focus
Goal: Include diversity and social justice outcomes in the planning and execution of all Environmental Center programs to enhance fiscal, environmental and social sustainability and support campus diversity.

Priority Projects, 2017-2020:
Conduct additional social equity trainings to students via classroom, staff faculty outreach. Support the role that CUE has traditionally filled.
Provide new immersive hands-on trainings specific for under-represented groups
Deepen partnerships with student groups on programs and events
Implement additional programming for training and professional development. Provide change-agent skills trainings.
Developmental support and trainings to identify personal strengths and effectiveness. Impart sense of leadership amongst everyday students and help students connect their talent and value to their work.
Continue partnering with underrepresented groups on campus to produce relevant educational events.

EC Assessment Plan has targets and metrics on these goals. https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/about-us/plans-reports

The University of Colorado 2021 Sustainability Report outlines goals for the University of Colorado System which includes CU Boulder. A sample of goals from this plan:
- reduce GHG emissions by 15% from 2019 emission levels by 2026
- reduce energy campus use (EUI) in campus buildings by up to 10% from 2019 levels by 2026
- increase the amount of renewable energy produced on-site or purchased by 2026; CU Boulder's specific commitment is to increase on-site production from 2.0% to 2.5% and off-site purchasing from 0% to 14.2%
- increase waste diversion rates on the CU Boulder campus to 90% by 2025
- convert 17% of the bus fleet for CU Boulder campus to electric buses by 2026
https://www.cu.edu/doc/2021cusustainabilityreportpdf

The Conceptual Plan for Carbon Neutrality (CPCN) sets long-term goals for GHG emissions reduction, where CU Boulder is currently is Phase 2 of 3.
- Phase 2 goal: reduce GHG emissions by 50% from 2005 emission levels by 2030; this phase leverages utilization and implementation of large scale renewables
- Phase 3 goal: 80% reduction in GHG emissions from 2005 emission levels by 2050; this phase leverages utilization of innovative technologies
https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/energyclimate/cu-and-energy/carbon-neutrality-plan

The Campus Master Plan (CMP) was adopted in 2011 is updated every 10 years. The CMP iniative includes energy, facilities, housing, and transportation. Some goals include:
- double merit and need based fianiancal aid within 5 years
https://www.colorado.edu/masterplan/

American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment Pledge of 2007

The American College and University President's Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), signed by the Chancellor and ratified by the Board of Regents in 2007 gave CU Boulder three GHG reduction targets: 20% by 2020; 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2050. The last of these goals has been updated to carbon neutrality by 2050.

Other multi-dimensional sustainability commitments (please specify below):
UN Sports for Climate Action