SUNY New Paltz Renames Six Buildings With Slavery Linkage + More

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April 2, 2019

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In the March 26 issue of the Bulletin, the URL for the Student Survey on Attitudes Toward & Expectations for Sustainability was incorrect. The URL is now correct.

News of the Week

SUNY New Paltz Renames Six Campus Buildings

Following a 19-month research and investigative process, the university’s College Council unanimously passed a resolution at the beginning of March 2019 to assign new names to the Hasbrouck Complex buildings, named for the original Huguenot patentees of the Village of New Paltz who also owned enslaved Africans. The selected new names carry local meaning, a theme that drew strong support from campus-wide survey responses from more than 3,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members, including Huguenot descendants.

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Bowie State U STEM Research Center Earns LEED Platinum

The university’s Center for Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Nursing is a 149,000-square-foot, four-floor building that features dynamic glazed windows that tint on-demand to lower energy usage and a computerized and automated ventilation system for laboratories. Sloped landscaping prevents rainwater from running off onto paved surfaces, and native deciduous shade trees in the building’s plaza serve as a natural buffer from the sun’s rays.

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Harvard U Business School Joins Farm Forward

Recently joining Farm Forward’s Leadership Circle, Harvard Business School has committed to buying 100 percent of its eggs—including both liquid and shell—from certified higher welfare farms aligned with Farm Forward’s sourcing requirements. An impact assessment found that switching to higher welfare products did not increase costs to Harvard Business School. The change will impact more than 15,000 hens over the next 10 years.

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Academics

Arizona State U Initiates Well-Being Research Center

Georgia Tech Launches Master of Sustainable Energy & Environmental Mgmt

U Minnesota Morris Introduces Minor in Sustainability Leadership

Engagement

Five Universities Partner to Address Food, Health, Climate Change Challenges

Operations

East Tennessee State U Installs 62.6 KW Solar Array on Library

U North Carolina Charlotte Dining Halls Become GRA Certified

Yale U Implements Smart Irrigation Systems

U Bath Introduces Recycling for Bags & Oral Care Products

Planning & Administration

Miami Dade College Adjuncts Vote to Form Union

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Opportunities

AASHE Workshop: Sustainability Professionals Retreat

The Sustainability Professionals Retreat is designed to support and bolster attendees’ vision, energy, capabilities and support system as a sustainability change agent on campus. Happening in Boulder, Colorado, from June 19 – 22, on the beautiful CU Boulder campus, this workshop will will explore important trends in higher education and how to position sustainability as a solution driver. The deadline to apply is May 1.

Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop at Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University invites faculty members from any discipline to apply to attend this curriculum workshop, which aims to help faculty include a module on sustainability in an existing course or to develop a new course focused entirely on sustainability. Participants will draw inspiration from multiple visions of sustainability, including the U.N. SDGs, academic associations in their field, and their school’s mission. There will also be a breakout session for faculty members from Jesuit institutions that will draw links to Ignatian pedagogy and Catholic social teaching on sustainability and justice. Santa Clara University is one of 13 regional AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum.

Call for Proposals: Students for Zero Waste Conference

The Post-Landfill Action Network is seeking speakers with an understanding of zero waste, environmental justice, and intersectionality to lead workshops and presentations at the Students for Zero Waste Conference, happening at the University of Pennsylvania from Oct. 11-13. The deadline to submit a workshop proposal is July 31.

Second Nature Policy Updates

Second Nature is working with partners to bring together advocacy opportunities that will accelerate science informed solutions, break down blockages for campus climate goals and clear the pathway for climate action success. This sign-up form provides the opportunity to receive periodic updates from Second Nature regarding policy issues.

ASCE Student Paper Competition

This paper competition hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers invites students to submit papers that address how engineers have contributed to the SDGs. Papers that focus on multidisciplinary (engineering & non-engineering) approaches to addressing the SDGs are especially welcomed. Papers must be submitted by April 15.

New Resources

Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships

This field guide is intended to advance the growing field and practice of university-community partnerships. It seeks to provide the first survey of the field through a scan of 100 urban universities and colleges. It also seeks to offer a framework and methods by which individual universities and colleges can track the progress of the field, compare learning across institutions, and distill best practices for their own work in university-community partnerships. In this way, it seeks to complement a range of capacity-building resources that already exist by offering a stepwise opportunity for practitioners to locate themselves within the field of their peers, discern a best next step for their institutions and communities, and connect with the resources they need to be successful.

APPA Facilities Manager Magazine: Sustainability Excellence and Collaboration

The March/April issue of APPA’s Facilities Manager magazine focuses on Sustainability Excellence and Collaboration. It includes articles about renewable energy aggregation in higher education, sustainability as an institutional priority, optimizing building sustainability, and APPA’s student internship program.