Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 64.75
Liaison Brad Spanbauer
Submission Date Feb. 4, 2012
Executive Letter Download

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University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Michael Lizotte
Director Of Facilities Management
Facilities
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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:

Northeast Wisconsin Educational Resource Alliance (NEW ERA):
(http://www.neweraonline.org/sustainability)


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

NEW ERA includes 13 institutions of higher education, including 4-year colleges, 2-year colleges, technical colleges, and a tribal college. The Sustainability Task Force of NEW ERA began in 2009, and has been a venue to share best practices. Specific projects include a common high school sustainability course for college credit, a sustainability awareness contest for college students, developing a website of expertise in the region, and work towards bringing engineering degree programs, including environmental engineering, to the region.

UW Oshkosh is also participates in activities of AASHE, NACUBO, and UMACS.


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

Equity Scorecard (http://www.uwosh.edu/2008/equity.html) is a UW System project to identify ways to address inequities that exist in educational outcomes among students of color. UW-O is one of seven pilot institutions. The goal is to close the achievement gap by bringing retention and graduation rates for students of color in line with those of the student body as a whole.


The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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