Furman University
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

-Over the past two years, Furman has collaborated with Middlebury College in Vermont and Second Nature to provide two workshops for national audiences on climate action planning. After a successful workshop at the 2009 AASHE/Greening of the Campus Conference in Indianapolis, Dr. Halfacre (Director of the Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman), Jack Byrne (Director of the Sustainability Integration Office at Middlebury), and Second Nature offered a second workshop at Furman to 15 participants from across the nation in March 2010. -Dr. Halfacre presented during a webinar in August 2010 through the AASHE STARS program, focused on the lessons learned and Furman’s approach to gaining buy-in across the campus. -Teams from Middlebury College and Furman collaborated to share their differing strategies for integrating sustainability into the curriculum at liberal arts universities. The resulting book chapter, titled “Shaping Sustainability: Emergent and Adaptive Models from Furman and Middlebury,” will appear in the book Taking it to the Next Level: Strategies for Adaptation across the Sustainability Curriculum, to be published in 2011. Furman Authors: Dr. Angela Halfacre (Shi Center for Sustainability/Political Science/Earth and Environmental Sciences), Dr. Michelle Horhota (Psychology), Katherine Kransteuber (Shi Center for Sustainability), Brittany DeKnight (Shi Center for Sustainability), Dr. Brannon Andersen (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Middlebury Authors: Jack Byrne (Sustainability Integration Office), Dr. Steve Trombulak (Biology), Dr. Nan Jenks-Jay (Dean of Environmental Affairs) -In March 2010, Shi Center Director Dr. Angela Halfacre and Dr. Tom Kazee (then Provost and Executive Vice President) highlighted Furman’s sustainability curricular efforts at a Wake Forest University conference titled Taking It to the Next Level: Strategies for Adaptation across the Sustainability Curriculum.

-American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment -Associated Colleges of the South Environmental Initiative -The Duke Endowment Task Force on Community and Environmental Sustainability -Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education -American Council on Renewable Energy -Society for College and University Planning

The Duke Endowment Task Force on Community and Environmental Sustainability was created in 2008 as an innovative way for institutions to collaborate in the move toward campus sustainability. The Duke Endowment, an approximately $2.5 billion endowment based in Charlotte, NC, supports four institutions of higher education in North and South Carolina: Davidson College, Duke University, Furman University, and Johnson C. Smith University. Furman's Shi Center for Sustainability Director Angela Halfacre serves as the chair of the task force. For more information, please see http://www.dukeendowment.org/issues/improving-rural-communities/sustainable-campuses.