Sustainability Master Plan 2025

ACADEMICS

GOAL: Equip more students (¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ, graduate and professional) with knowledge and skills to address global sustainability challenges in collaboration with faculty.

 

 

STRATEGIES

Progress updates for year 1 are below.

Actions for each strategy have been identified and will be prioritized on an annual basis by the implementation team.

S1 Curriculum: Determine a baseline and target increase for the percentage of students who graduate having completed coursework, including Experiential Learning Requirements (ELRs), that includes sustainability-focused learning outcomes by 2028, such that at least 50% of graduates meet this criterion by 2035.

  • The team is exploring ways to track sustainability-focused ELRs and is working on a sustainability course designation. At this time, the following metric is being used to assess progress:
  • 28% of academic year 2024-2025 graduates completed at least one sustainability-focused course.
28%
50%

S2 Engaged & Experiential Learning: Establish a baseline for student participation in sustainability-focused engaged and experiential learning, both on campus and with community partners, by 2030 and increase student participation by 10% by 2035.

  • The team is exploring ways to track sustainability-focused engaged and experiential learning.

S3 Research & Creative Inquiry: Determine a baseline and target increase for the percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research and creative inquiry, including faculty-mentored student research and course-embedded research, by 2028, such that at least 85% of academic departments meet this criterion by 2035.

  • The team is exploring ways to track sustainability research and creative inquiry that is faculty-mentored and course-embedded. At this time, the following metric is being used to assess progress:
  • 66% of academic departments have at least one faculty member doing sustainability research.
66%
85%

S4 Tracking: Design and implement methods to track involvement of students, faculty and staff in sustainability-focused curriculum, sustainability-focused engaged and experiential learning, and sustainability research and creative inquiry experiences by 2030 and provide annual reports of involvement.

  • As noted in the above strategies, the team is exploring ways to enhance the tracking of the academic sustainability efforts identified in the strategies.