AASHE Bulletin

U Georgia Offers Staff Sustainability Leadership Program

A cohort of 14 university staff completed the institution's first-ever Sustainability Leadership Program, designed to grow leaders, build community, and create positive change. In the three-part program, participants learned about a range of sustainability issues and applied solutions underway at the institution, participated in leadership and change management training, and developed and implemented projects within their area of influence.

Purdue U Opens Sustainability & Environmental Engineering School

American U Sharjah to Initiate Environmental & Sustainability Professorship

Saint Joseph's U Opens Laudato Si' Art Exhibition

McGill U Releases Biodiversity Atlas

Williams College Earns STARS V2.2 Gold

U Sherbrooke Achieves STARS V2.2 Platinum

U Sharjah Obtains STARS V2.2 Platinum

U Massachusetts Lowell Earns STARS V2.2 Platinum

U Notre Dame Achieves STARS V3 Silver

Tulane U Obtains STARS V3 Silver

Radford U Earns STARS V3 Silver

Georgia State U Achieves STARS V3 Silver

U Maryland, College Park Earns STARS V3 Gold

U California Riverside Earns STARS V3 Gold

Loyola Marymount U Achieves STARS V3 Gold

California State U Chico Earns STARS V3 Gold

U Regina Opens Microgrid Living Lab

U Guelph Divest From Fossil Fuels

The university recently completed its divestment from fossil fuel companies in its endowment portfolio, fulfilling a five-year, fossil-free divestment goal that began in April 2020. It achieved a 74 percent reduction in the weighted average carbon intensity of its investment portfolio since it began tracking this metric in 2018.