UofL’s sustainability progress reported to Staff Senate
The Staff Senate met Monday on the HSC campus, where updates were provided from the ombudsman’s office and the Sustainability Council.
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Justin Mog, assistant to the provost for sustainability initiatives, said UofL has made progress toward its sustainability goals and recently earned a STARS Gold rating. With a 66.24% score, UofL is the most sustainable school in Kentucky, ahead of No. 2 Berea College, with 65.95%. The next highest score was JCTC with 58.80%. In the ACC, UofL is fourth behind just Virginia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia.
Mog said we are now working to achieve the next level – platinum. To do so, he outlined the following strategies, among many others:
- Increase courses offered that are sustainability-focused or related.
- Increase the number of students who graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability-learning outcome.
- Administer a sustainability literacy assessment to the student body.
- Increase percentage of research-producing faculty and staff that are engaged in sustainability research.
- Administer a longitudinal assessment of sustainability culture.
- Get more staff to participate in annual sustainability professional development training.
- Engage the entire student body in community service.
- Re-join the Worker Rights Consortium or the Fair Labor Association.
Mog also noted that UofL has decreased its carbon footprint by 13%.
“We are decreasing emissions even as we are growing and that is great news. But we have a lot of work left to do,” he said.
Mog’s full report is available online. A reminder that Sustainability Week is Oct. 17-25 with a number of events scheduled. More information is available here.
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Source: UofL’s sustainability progress reported to Staff Senate (UofL News, Oct. 15, 2019)
