Regan Greer

This document outlines the College of the Atlantic's comprehensive commitment to environmental stewardship through various sustainable campus policies. Key initiatives include eliminating non-essential single-use plastics by 2025, achieving 90% waste diversion and 20% waste reduction by 2025, divesting from fossil fuels, and transitioning to a fossil fuel-free campus by 2030. The policies also encompass promoting fair trade, sustainable meat purchasing, endorsing the Earth Charter, and requiring LEED Gold or Living Building Challenge Full Living Certification for new constructions, all aimed at integrating human ecology principles and fostering an environmentally responsible community.

The 2030 Strategic Plan for College of the Atlantic serves as an institutional roadmap to guide the institution's direction over the next six years, rooted in its human ecology framework. It focuses on six strategic priorities: Governance and Leadership, Academic Innovation, Value and Visibility, Student Wellbeing and Post-Graduation Readiness, Financial Health of COA and its Employees, and Campus Systems and Infrastructure. The plan aims to advance COA's legacy, enhance student experience and impact, improve student wellbeing and post-graduation readiness, update infrastructure, fortify financial health, refine governance, and embody adaptive leadership.

This multi-year strategic vision for the College of the Atlantic aims to establish comprehensive infrastructure, policies, and standardization systems to achieve a zero-waste campus. Key focus areas include enhancing surplus property and hard-to-recycle materials management through improved physical and digital infrastructure, staffing, and community engagement. It also prioritizes standardizing compost, dishware, and bin systems by expanding reusable options, improving food recovery, and implementing new procurement policies and event infrastructure. The plan seeks to eliminate non-essential single-use items and achieve an Atlas Zero Waste Score of above 90%, emphasizing waste aversion, reuse, and repair.

This Energy Framework outlines the College of the Atlantic's strategic direction to become a fossil fuel-free campus by 2030. The plan aims to achieve this by significantly reducing overall energy consumption and transitioning to local, renewable energy sources. Key pillars include reducing fossil fuel use, decreasing total energy consumption, generating on-campus electricity, addressing greenhouse gas emissions through offsets, and fostering energy education and experimentation among students, faculty, and staff. The framework also emphasizes continuous monitoring, reporting, and periodic revision of its targets to ensure progress towards its sustainability goals.

This Interim Fifth-Year Report from College of the Atlantic, submitted in August 2023, details the institution's strategic progress and future direction. It summarizes achievements under the previous 2015-2023 strategic plan (MAP) and outlines the ongoing development of the next comprehensive strategic plan for 2024-2030. Key strategic pillars include maintaining enrollment targets, enhancing financial stability through successful fundraising and tuition management, improving student persistence and graduation rates via programs like COA2 and Davis Grant initiatives, and developing a systematic approach to assessing student learning outcomes. The plan reaffirms the college's core mission in human ecology, emphasizing faculty development, physical resource improvements, and technological upgrades, alongside the implementation of a DEI Strategic Plan for inclusivity.