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Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 Ursinus College Climate & Sustainability Action Plan Office of Sustainability K. Shannon Spencer, Campus Sustainability Planner Ursinus College is located in southeastern Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. This is its first Climate and Sustainability Action Plan. This plan is organized by administrative units on the campus in order to facilitate the implementation and accessibility of the plan to those who will ultimately be making decisions and taking actions that affect sustainability and our greenhouse gas emissions in various areas of the College. –June 2013 Ursinus College – Office of Sustainability 601 E. Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426 610- 4 0 9 - 3000 i Acknowledgements: This plan is meant to guide the College’s steps as we work toward our long-term goal of climate neutrality. I would like to thank all of my many collaborators from offices and departments across the College who helped craft this document. Without their input and feedback, this document would be far less accurate, robust and useful. I hope that it is, and will continue to be all of those things. I would like to thank to my editors: Facilities Director Andrew Feick, Professor Richard Wallace and Professor Leah Joseph, for the many hours they spent reading, re- reading, providing comments, advising, and being a cheering section. Finally, I would like to thank President Bobby Fong for his support of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Ursinus College: CSAP – 2013 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................................................... II LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT ............................................................................................................ I SECTION 3: ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................1 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.1: PRESIDENT’S OFFICE ....................................................................................... 1 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.2: BUSINESS OFFICE ......................................................................................... 19 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.3: STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES ....................................................................... 29 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.4: HUMAN RESOURCES ..................................................................................... 38 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.5: COMMUNICATIONS & WEB OFFICE ................................................................. 47 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.6: OFFICE OF ADMISSION .................................................................................. 55 ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER 3.7: ADVANCEMENT ........................................................................................... 62 ADMINISTRATION – CHAPTER 3.8: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................... 71 WORKS CITED .................................................................................................................................. 89 APPENDICES..................................................................................................................................... 91 APPENDIX A: AMERICAN COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS’ CLIMATE COMMITMENT TEXT ................................. 91 APPENDIX B: URSINUS COLLEGE CAMPUS MAP ................................................................................................ 93 APPENDIX C: URSINUS COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY HISTORY .................................................................................. 95 APPENDIX D: UC - SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES LIST .......................................................................................... 99 APPENDIX E: URSINUS’ ACADEMIC COURSE LISTINGS FOR SUSTAINABILITY RELATED COURSES ................................ 105 APPENDIX F: URSINUS - SUSTAINABLE OFFICE GUIDELINES ............................................................................... 110 APPENDIX G: URSINUS GREEN EVENTS GUIDELINES ......................................................................................... 113 APPENDIX H: URSINUS GREEN PURCHASING GUIDELINES ................................................................................. 116 APPENDIX I: URSINUS SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS/PROGRAMS THAT ORIGINATED IN ACADEMIC COURSES ................. 118 APPENDIX J: URSINUS SUSTAINABLE LIVING GUIDE .......................................................................................... 120 APPENDIX K: URSINUS FACILITIES EQUIPMENT ................................................................................................ 126 APPENDIX L: URSINUS MAIN BUILDINGS LIST ................................................................................................. 130 APPENDIX M: URSINUS BUILDING LIST, BY TYPE.............................................................................................. 134 APPENDIX N: URSINUS FLEET VEHICLES, OWNED AND LEASED .......................................................................... 138 APPENDIX O: ECO-DRIVING RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................................................... 140 APPENDIX P: URSINUS SCIENCE LABS & EQUIPMENT ....................................................................................... 141 APPENDIX Q: PFAHLER HALL SCIENCE LABS & EQUIPMENT ............................................................................... 143 APPENDIX R: THOMAS HALL SCIENCE LABS & EQUIPMENT ............................................................................... 145 APPENDIX S: SODEXO SUSTAINABILITY STUDENT PROMOTION COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTION ............................. 148 APPENDIX T: SAMPLE AASHE STARS CHECKLIST FOR DINING SERVICES ............................................................ 150 ii Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 APPENDIX U: URSINUS ATHLETIC FACILITIES LIST ............................................................................................. 155 APPENDIX V: URSINUS GREEN AND BEAR IT TEAM GOALS ................................................................................ 157 iii Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 Letter from the President i Ursinus College: Climate & Sustainability Action Plan - 2013 Section 3: Administration Administration - Chapter 3.1: President’s Office Back to Table of Contents Since 2001, Ursinus has supported the Environmental Studies Department and sustainability- related efforts of staff and students. We have programs that extend across the campus, the organic farm, Take Back the Tap, Move-In, Sustainable Move-Out, recycling, composting, and UC BikeShare, as well as multiple courses in many disciplines that focus on sustainability and/or the environment. In the fall of 2010, the administration hired two part-time staff members to support the increasing number and extent of sustainability initiatives on campus as well as to create and implement the College’s Climate Action (and Sustainability) Plan. These staff members are responsible for student-based programs and working with the College community in managing the College’s efforts to become carbon neutral. Appendix C contains a table that shows a timeline of sustainability-related actions and measures that have occurred on the Ursinus campus. These actions represent first steps toward an eco-sustainable campus. They will need additional support to be fully effective, particularly as the college moves toward carbon neutrality. This CSAP is a step toward making that a reality. Ursinus’ Administration and its Facilities Services Department have supported the inclusion of sustainability measures in some of the policies and programs of the College. Ursinus has incorporated aspects of sustainability in its contracting with waste haulers and housekeeping; we have committed to LEED construction standards for new buildings and large renovations; and we purchase many products locally. These practices were developed over time, in part resulting from our commitment to the ACUPCC, and in part because many sustainability practices make fiscal sense. For the most part, policy decisions regarding sustainability will have to make financial sense for the College. UC has many resources to draw on as we work toward achieving our goals of cutting our greenhouse gas emissions. The first, and most important, is the support that we have from the 1 Ursinus College: CSAP – 2013 Administration. This support allows us to work with departments throughout the college, secure in the knowledge that we are all working toward the same goals. Below is a table that includes a partial list of sustainability-related policies already in place at the College. 3.1 Current: President’s Office The table below shows the mitigation or sustainability projects and/or initiatives that have already or currently are taking place within this administrative unit of the College. These initiatives are broken into eight or nine types, depending on whether there are items related to Facilities Services Department included. These items are further delineated by type of action. Table 3.1-1: Sustainability projects & initiatives – President’s Office Type of Mitigation Project/Initiative: President’s Office Project Administrative Academic Support Structure The administration has supported the development and expansion of the

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