Evergreen State College, The
PA-2: Sustainability Planning

From the 2020-2023 Evergreen State College Strategic Plan:

Goal 1, Objective 2.3: "Develop new academic programs integrating multiple disciplines to develop the skills and capacities needed to solve real-world problems such as climate, public health, and racial injustice."

From the 2020-2023 Evergreen State College Strategic Plan:

Goal 1, Objective 5: Cultivate and sustain a campus culture that fosters a strong sense of personal belonging, and embraces and affirms all through open-hearted engagement, humility, and individual empowerment

Tactics:
1. Increase students’ sense of connectedness to each other and to the
Evergreen community
2. Using climate survey results, identify the aspects of campus climate that
undermine a sense of belonging and create barriers to an inclusive education; improve institutional
structures to promote transformational growth for all our students, particularly those underserved by
higher education
3. Design, develop, and execute interventions to strengthen equity, inclusion, and belonging for students,
faculty, and staff experience

Evergreen adheres to state-mandated greenhouse gas emission-reduction goals, which includes measured targets for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in future decades.

https://www.evergreen.edu/policies/ghg
https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70A.45.050

From the 2020-2023 Evergreen State College Strategic Plan:

"Objective 5: Realize our commitment to equity, inclusion, and justice
Cultivate and sustain a campus culture that fosters a strong sense of personal
belonging, and embraces and affirms all through open-hearted engagement,
humility, and individual empowerment.

"Tactics:
1. Increase students’ sense of connectedness to each other and to the
Evergreen community
2. Using climate survey results, identify the aspects of campus climate that
undermine a sense of belonging and create barriers to an inclusive education; improve institutional
structures to promote transformational growth for all our students, particularly those underserved by
higher education
3. Design, develop, and execute interventions to strengthen equity, inclusion, and belonging for students,
faculty, and staff experience"

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"Objective 3: Strengthen Evergreen’s financial position
Tactics:
1. Reallocate existing resources to support new institutional initiatives
2. Identify, develop, and engage in partnerships in support of objectives outlined above
3. Diversify and increase revenue by increasing enrollment (while maintaining comparative affordability
of an Evergreen degree), leasing space, and fundraising
4. Reduce costs and scale operations"

As an innovative public liberal arts college, Evergreen emphasizes collaborative, interdisciplinary learning across significant differences. Evergreen’s academic community engages students in defining and thinking critically about their learning. Evergreen supports and benefits from local and global commitment to social justice, diversity, environmental stewardship, and service in the public interest.

Evergreen's Accreditation Metrics Dashboard, Core Theme 3, Objective 2 - Environmental and social justice curriculum, "Sustainability—broadly defined to include topics such as ecology, consumption, sustainable design, sustainable business, social justice, environmental justice, environmental ethics, climate change, environmental health, conservation, and understanding the interaction of society and the environment—is present in nearly 70 percent of Evergreen’s programs."

Core Theme 3, Environmental Stewardship and Social Justice, Objective 1 - Environmentally sustainable institutional operations (Evergreen's Accreditation Metrics Dashboard): "Carbon neutrality has been embraced as a long-term strategic goal of the college, and thus, efforts are underway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The college has also committed to achieving zero waste, which requires reduced consumption overall as well as the use of more recyclable, compostable and renewable resources in order to divert waste from landfills."