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“If we are to achieve a sustainable future, institutions of higher education must provide the awareness, knowledge, skills and values that equip individuals to pursue life goals in a manner that sustains human and non-human well-being for all current and future generations.”
~ Anthony Cortese, Second Nature -
For more information about Sustainability at Ithaca, please contact:
Marian Brown 607-274-3787 mbrown@ithaca.edu
Community Outreach
At Ithaca College, we take very seriously the following mission statement:
All members of the College community are encouraged to achieve excellence in their chosen field and to share the responsibilities of citizenship and service in the global community.
“Sustainability” is not a thing – it is a continuous improvement process and decision-making framework through which one’s actions become more sustainable over time. Achieving greater campus sustainability demands a culture of “life-long learning” in which we constantly re-examine our activities through new lenses, asking ourselves the question: “How can we do [xyz] smarter?”
In our drive to achieve institutional and academic excellence in the area of campus sustainability, we seek to glean knowledge from multiple sources and, through reflection, develop greater understanding from the experience, successes and failures of ourselves and others, and apply our wisdom to continually improve both what we do and how we do it.
In turn, if we are to achieve global sustainability, it is incumbent upon us to freely and widely share the lessons we have learned with all the members of our campus community, with our neighbors in the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County region, with our peers and colleagues within higher education, and to anyone else “out there” willing to listen and learn with us.
Speaker’s Bureau :
A number of Ithaca College faculty, staff, and administrators have presented on their teaching, research work, and/or operational changes and would be happy to offer their services as speakers. If you wish to learn more, please contact:
Marian Brown
607-274-3787
mbrown@ithaca.edu
