University of Rochester
EN-10: Inter-Campus Collaboration

The University sponsors an annual sustainability seminar series; twelve sessions per year include talks by UR students and faculty and external speakers from both academia and the larger community, which are free and open to the public. For 2011-12 six students presened the outcomes of summer sustainability internships, 6 UR faculty members discussed their research and outside speakers included Lisa Cleckner, Director, Finger Lakes Institute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Jim Howe, Executive Director, and David Klein, Senior Field Representative, The Nature Conservancy, Central-Western New York; and Enid Cardinal, Senior Sustainability Advisor to the President, Rochester Institute of Technology. The first speaker for the 2012-2013 series was Catherine Tumber, author of "Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World". MIT Press, 2012). She is a visiting scholar in Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and a fellow with the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities Institute

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education National Council for Science and the Environment Council of Environmental Deans and Directors Association of Environmental Studies and Science

Following a presentation in Fall, 2011, by Enid Cardinal, Senior Sustainability Advisor to the President at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to the University Council on Sustainability, a new working group, the Inter-Campus Collaboration Working Group was established and began meeting. Their first agenda item is to strengthen collaboration by establishing a way for information sharing/communication between campuses. Short and long term goals have been articulated: first, to establish a mechanism for information sharing across the two campuses; then, to develop to develop jointly spnsored meetings and symposiums.