Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 38.93
Liaison Veronica Johnson
Submission Date May 10, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Southwestern University
IC-1: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Mike Miller
Associate Vice President
Facilities Management
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Institution type: Associate (i.e., short-cycle), Baccalaureate, Doctoral/Research, or Master's:
Baccalaureate

Institutional control (Public, Private for-profit, or Private non-profit):
Private non-profit

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
Southwestern University is a 700-acre campus, including academic and administrative buildings, student dormitories, and fraternity houses. A separate university-owned plot of 25 acres, known as Ecolab, is utilized for field research and as the site of the Ecolab course offered to students. An additional 800 acres exists in various tracts of land throughout Texas. This land is used for agricultural purposes in most cases.

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) No No
Satellite campus No No
Farm larger than 5 acres or 2 hectares Yes Yes
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:

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
Most of the non-maintained acreage is kept in agriculture through the grazing of cattle.

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