How Institutionalised are you ?

Environment

• You are making progress in a number of environmental areas including energy, water management, biodiversity, transport etc

Strategy

You are guided by a Corporate strategy which has a clear and unequivocal commitment to sustainable development

Policy

• You have a sustainability policy which sets clear sustainability objectives, targets and metrics applied to the whole organisation

Performance Evaluation

• You produce a transparant and coherent sustainability performance report which relates to all your activities and is published and accessible to staff, students and external stakeholders

Teaching and Learning

• You have an Institutional Teaching and Learning and Assessment Strategy in which SD/ESD is a core principle backed up by an implementation strategy

Curriculum

• More than 25% of your students are engaged with SD/ESD learning experiences which have measurable outcomes that are evaluated

HR

• A commitment to SD is featured in all your staff appointments, appraisal and performance review structures, mechanisms

Training and Development

• You have a staff development programme for training and development of staff in how SD relates to their job functions and ways of making a difference in their working lives

Leadership

• You have a PVC with clear role and responsibility for SD who you or your line manager reports to

Budgets

• You have a sizeable ring fenced budget for sustainability investments above and beyond utility bills etc

Finance

• You have a financial strategy which takes sustainability into account in all significant decision

Risk

• You have a risk management process which recognises the reputational, cost, capacity and financial risks from poor environmental and social performance and has mechanisms to ensure these are addressed

Buildings

• You have a policy and implementation strategy ensuring new building and refurbishments are designed against demanding sustainability specification; uses whole life costing to judge environmental measures; conducts full post occupancy evaluation and reports

Student Experience

• Student experience and satisfaction surveys include questions on sustainability and show wide spread engagement and positive response to sustainability activities on campus

Carbon

• your carbon emissions are falling in absolute terms or you have improved your carbon efficiency per FTE by 60% compared to 1990

Campus

• A visit to your campus(es) would make it clear that your Institution is committed to sustainable development through its signage, information provision, layout and support for sustainable behaviours

Behaviour

• There is widespread evidence throughout the campus, in HoR and your staff behaviour in their working practices that they are committed to sustainability

Corporate Communications

• You have a strategy which ensures the values of sustainable development are included in all your corporate communications to staff, students, external world

You

• You feel valued and supported in your role and work and at the end of most days you sit back with a warm glow of satisfaction feeling that the Institution is going in the right direction and your efforts are producing clear results.

How did you score ?

• If you scored more that 5 fantastic stuff

• Most of us are below 3 ?

• Creating sustainability as the norm requires a score of 20 ?

Institutionalising Sustainable Development HE

• Key drivers in HE– Research (RAE) & KT– Teaching and learning (curriculum)– Student recruitment– Income

Key processes and structures

• Research facilities• Research applications• Student admissions• Student Marketing • Academic Policy• Planning and Budgeting• HR/Personnel• Purchasing/procurement

Build trust with allies & champions

Engage in 2-way educational exchange Propose trial

projects

Establish business plan and financing mechanism

Identify service needs and cost

savings

Leverage new confidence, networks &

capacities for larger projects

Understand basic organizational characteristics: Power, money,

decision-making Entrepreneur & business builder

Content expert in green building, transportation etc

Project manager

Leverage allies to back ideas

The Old Role of the Campus Sustainability Practitioner

Promote success

and extract all lessons

Institutionalize new practice: standards,

reporting requirements

Implement project

Build staff capacities to implement new practices

Build trust with allies & champions

Engage in 2-way educational exchange Propose trial

projects

Establish business plan and financing mechanism

Identify service needs and cost

savings

Leverage new confidence, networks &

capacities for larger projects

Understand basic organizational characteristics: Power, money,

decision-making

Systems Developer

Advocate, psychologist & educator

Entrepreneur & business builder

Content expert in green building, transportation etc

Project manager

Leverage allies to back ideasNeed to Address:

InformationTechnology & Design

Politics & PowerOrganizational Limitations

Cognitive Limitations

The New Role of the Campus Sustainability Practitioner

Politician & experienced administrator

StrategistPromote success

and extract all lessons

Institutionalize new practice: standards,

reporting requirements

Implement project

Build staff capacities to implement new practices