| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 80.84 |
| Liaison | Alex Davis |
| Submission Date | Feb. 27, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Arizona State University
IC-1: Institutional Boundary
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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N/A |
Corey
Hawkey Assistant Director University Sustainability Practices |
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Institution type: Associate (i.e., short-cycle), Baccalaureate, Doctoral/Research, or Master's:
Doctoral/Research
Institutional control (Public, Private for-profit, or Private non-profit):
Public
A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom we exclude, but rather by whom we include and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.
ASU established an Institutional Boundaries Task Force in 2016 to review and establish the institutional boundaries for sustainability reporting. ASU builds off of The Climate Registry's Protocol and uses the Operational Control methodology.
For ASU’s boundary purposes, operational control will be defined as ASU’s substantial authority to make improvements to the sustainability impacts of the facility. That is, the energy and water efficiency, the waste generation and disposition, and the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers on the landscaping (ASU must have authority over at least 2 of the 3).
Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
| Present? | Included? | |
| Agricultural school | No | No |
| Medical school | No | No |
| Other professional school with labs and clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) | Yes | Yes |
| Satellite campus | Yes | Yes |
| Farm larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares | No | No |
| Agricultural experiment station larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares | No | No |
| Hospital | No | No |
If there are features present that are not included within the boundary, provide:
ASU reports over 92.5% of its GSF in sustainability metrics. Exclusions are based on the protocol outlined by the Institutional Boundaries Task Force (see attached).
ASU has excluded the Thunderbird School of Global Management at this time. It will be reevaluated in Fiscal Year 2017. It is being excluded because it is a recent acquisition that is not fully integrated into ASU reporting systems. This has created data acquisition issues for Fiscal Year 2016 as well as a baseline year.
Optional Fields
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
For more information please review ASU's Institutional Boundaries for Sustainability Reporting Task Force Report.
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