Goals and Strategies

  • Make Western Michigan University a national higher education sustainability leader
  • Identify and help implement innovative and cost-effective strategies for reducing WMU’s ecocultural wake, which span all of our policies, programs, and activities
  • Facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-college collaboration, research, and inquiry around sustainability
  • Encourage and support weaving sustainability and climate change education into existing curriculum
  • Assist in the development and implementation of new undergraduate and graduate sustainability courses, certificates, and degree programs
  • Support active learning and real-world problem solving through student sustainability research, internships, and co-curricular activities
  • Graduate knowledgeable, open-minded, well-prepared, and engaged planetary stewards
  • Serve as a resource and advocate for sustainability on campus and in the community, region, and state
  • Collaborate with all Offices and Colleges across campus to secure resources for these efforts
  • Report regularly and transparently on both our achievements and shortcomings in these endeavors