How Institutionalised are you ?

1. How Institutionalised are you ?

2. Environment • You are making progress in a number of environmental areas including energy, water management, biodiversity, transport etc

3. Strategy You are guided by a Corporate strategy which has a clear and unequivocal commitment to sustainable development

4. Policy • You have a sustainability policy which sets clear sustainability objectives, targets and metrics applied to the whole organisation

5. Performance Evaluation • You produce a transparant and coherent sustainability performance report which relates to all your activities and is published and accessible to staff, students and external stakeholders

6. Teaching and Learning • You have an Institutional Teaching and Learning and Assessment Strategy in which SD/ESD is a core principle backed up by an implementation strategy

7. Curriculum • More than 25% of your students are engaged with SD/ESD learning experiences which have measurable outcomes that are evaluated

8. HR • A commitment to SD is featured in all your staff appointments, appraisal and performance review structures, mechanisms

9. Training and Development • You have a staff development programme for training and development of staff in how SD relates to their job functions and ways of making a difference in their working lives

10. Leadership • You have a PVC with clear role and responsibility for SD who you or your line manager reports to

11. Budgets • You have a sizeable ring fenced budget for sustainability investments above and beyond utility bills etc

12. Finance • You have a financial strategy which takes sustainability into account in all significant decision

13. Risk • You have a risk management process which recognises the reputational, cost, capacity and financial risks from poor environmental and social performance and has mechanisms to ensure these are addressed

14. Buildings • You have a policy and implementation strategy ensuring new building and refurbishments are designed against demanding sustainability specification; uses whole life costing to judge environmental measures; conducts full post occupancy evaluation and reports

15. Student Experience • Student experience and satisfaction surveys include questions on sustainability and show wide spread engagement and positive response to sustainability activities on campus

16. Carbon • your carbon emissions are falling in absolute terms or you have improved your carbon efficiency per FTE by 60% compared to 1990

17. Campus • A visit to your campus(es) would make it clear that your Institution is committed to sustainable development through its signage, information provision, layout and support for sustainable behaviours

18. Behaviour • There is widespread evidence throughout the campus, in HoR and your staff behaviour in their working practices that they are committed to sustainability

19. Corporate Communications • You have a strategy which ensures the values of sustainable development are included in all your corporate communications to staff, students, external world

20. You • You feel valued and supported in your role and work and at the end of most days you sit back with a warm glow of satisfaction feeling that the Institution is going in the right direction and your efforts are producing clear results.

21. How did you score ? • If you scored more that 5 fantastic stuff • Most of us are below 3 ? • Creating sustainability as the norm requires a score of 20 ?

22. Institutionalising Sustainable Development HE • Key drivers in HE • Research (RAE) & KT • Teaching and learning (curriculum) • Student recruitment • Income

23. Key processes and structures • Research facilities • Research applications • Student admissions • Student Marketing • Academic Policy • Planning and Budgeting • HR/Personnel • Purchasing/procurement

24. The Old Role of the Campus Sustainability Practitioner Content expert in green building, transportation etc Engage in 2-way educational exchange Build trust with allies & champions Propose trial projects Understand basic organizational characteristics: Power, money, decision-making Leverage allies to back ideas Identify service needs and cost savings Entrepreneur & business builder Leverage new confidence, networks & capacities for larger projects Establish business plan and financing mechanism Build staff capacities to implement new practices Institutionalize new practice: standards, reporting requirements Promote success and extract all lessons Implement project Project manager

25. The New Role of the Campus Sustainability Practitioner Advocate, psychologist & educator Politician & experienced administrator Content expert in green building, transportation etc Engage in 2-way educational exchange Build trust with allies & champions Propose trial projects Understand basic organizational characteristics: Power, money, decision-making Leverage allies to back ideas Need to Address: Information Technology & Design Politics & Power Organizational Limitations Cognitive Limitations Identify service needs and cost savings Entrepreneur & business builder Leverage new confidence, networks & capacities for larger projects Establish business plan and financing mechanism Build staff capacities to implement new practices Institutionalize new practice: standards, reporting requirements Promote success and extract all lessons Strategist Implement project Project manager Systems Developer