The sustainable university : green goals and new challenges for higher education leaders / James Martin, James E. Samels & associates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, James, 1948 January 14-

Samels, James E.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Environmental aspects--United States.

Universities and colleges.

College buildings--Energy conservation--United States.

College buildings.

Sustainability.

College buildings--Energy conservation.

Universities and colleges--Environmental aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Martin (English, Mount Ida College) and Samels, an attorney specializing in higher education, offer best practices and action plans for university leaders to achieve major sustainability goals and objectives. Joined by US specialists in sustainability and campus sustainability leaders, they address key trends and challenges; sustainability and the leadership team; new agendas for operational areas such as endowment management, campus architecture, and athletics programming; and sustainability and external agencies, including accreditation and legal counsel. They identify four challenges college and university leaders face in creating sustainable universities and solutions to them; examples of successes and failures; the skills needed to build sustainability-centered alliances across institutions; the results of the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System; ways to institutionalize thinking; the evolving definitions and meanings of sustainability; collaborating with students; the responsibilities of the president; the implementation of action steps; leadership goals in endowment management, architecture and design, campus housing and dining, and athletics programming and infrastructure; and legal issues. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The sustainable university: a need to move forward / James Martin and James E. Samels

Promises made and promises lost: a candid assessment of higher education leadership and the sustainability agenda / Anthony D. Cortese

Trends, skills, and strategies to catalyze sustainability across institutions / Debra Rowe and Aurora Lang Winslade

Measuring campus sustainability performance: implementing the first sustainability tracking, assessment, and rating system (STARS) / Judy Walton and Laura Matson

Institutionalizing sustainability: achieving transformations from the inside / Leith Sharp and Cindy Pollock Shea

Sustainability: shifting definitions and evolving meanings / Davis Bookhart

Sustainable citizenship: the challenge for students and their institutions / Terry Link

Sustainability and the presidency: five starting points / Jo Ann Gora and Robert J. Koester

Not so fast: a dose of reality about sustainability / Thomas Buchanan and Tara Evans

The importance of sustainability in the community college setting / Mary Spilde

Sustainability, leadership, and the role of the chief academic officer / Geoffrey Chase, Peggy Barlett, and Rick Fairbanks

Greening the endowment / Mary Jo Maydew

Sustainability and higher education architecture: best practices for institutional leaders / Scott Carlson

Sustainable campus housing: building a better place / Norbert W. Dunkel and Lynne Deninger / Food for thought: building sustainable food systems and healthy communities / Howard L. Sacks

University athletics and sustainability: start on the field / DeDee DeLongpre Johnston and Dave Newport

The impact of sustainability on institutional quality assurance and accreditation / Sandra Elman

Green legal: creating a culture of vigilance, compliance, and sustainability thinking / James E. Samels and James Martin

Conclusion: new goals and new challenges for institutional leaders / James Martin and James E. Samels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1421404591

9781421404592

OCLC:

748812735

Publisher Number:

99948303199