可持续发展的未来

We believe in responsible stewardship that nurtures the human and environmental well-being of our campuses and our community and organizational partners. 

人类生活, 工作, and play at the intersection of the natural and built worlds and hold immense power to tip the balance toward sustainable or harmful practices through our choices. 在RWU, 我们选择可持续发展的道路, believing that it is a moral imperative to achieve balance between our actions and our impact.  

我们是我们现在占据的自然土地的管理者, 我们的人力资源和物质基础设施, and we have a sacred responsibility to care for the land, our people and places with sound environmental practices and resource management. Our decisions and actions will be designed with sustainable principles that provide a lasting foundation for current and future generations of students, 员工, 校友及社区成员. 

我们被召唤, 因此, to direct our research and scholarship toward solving the world’s most urgent problems, to shape policy and law to achieve greater environmental and social justice, 培养未来的领导者, professionals and tradespeople dedicated to sustainability, 并建立运营基础设施, 设施, 外部伙伴关系使之成为可能. It strengthens our capacity to build a flourishing community centered around the success, 学生的健康和持续发展, 校友及雇员. It empowers us to embed equity and inclusion across our campuses and in all facets of the institution, because we recognize that RWU will only become stronger when we remove barriers, and provide the support and sense of belonging for all of our community members. And it requires a thoughtful and sustainable approach to campus master planning that maintains and designs new inclusive spaces for living, 学习 and 工作ing and is mindful of the impact of our built environment and landscape on our surroundings. 

选择2021-2022年计划

• 重组大学可持续发展委员会
• 提交 AASHE /明星 2022年1月之前进行可持续发展评估
• Hire a campus Sustainability Coordinator for support in building projects, 校园实践和学生教育规划
• 投资建设一个更有活力的全年校园, 拓展课程, 营地, 会议和社区活动
• Convene a spaces committee to develop new protocols and optimize space utilization on campus
• Refresh and integrate our campus master planning efforts with the strategic plan; complete our required 5-year campus master planning documents for board approval and submission to town of Bristol
• 配合RWU的敬业教学, 学习, and research capacities toward the goal of building resilient communities locally and globally

嵌入式股本

We recognize that equity and inclusion require a holistic university effort, so that means we uphold these ideals and think about how they should be incorporated in all policies and systems, including our goals for a sustainable and enduring university.

We will ensure that divisional plans and budgets align with institutional priorities and reflect diversity, 公平和包容目标. Our business practices must include strategic fundraising targets, 包容性校园总体规划, 工作ing with a more diverse pool of vendors who support our goals and meet our standards of sustainability.

衡量我们的进步

RWU将完成并提交 可持续发展跟踪、评估 & 评级系统 (STARS)， 2022年初. This transparent assessment tool will measure our sustainable practices and allow us to benchmark our results across hundreds of universities, to identify areas of improvement and set concrete annual goals.