Sustainability Award Categories
We are excited to share that we will be including the following awards at the 3rd Annual Sustainability Summit on Wednesday, April 16:
- Student Sustainability Award
- Staff Sustainability Award
- Faculty Sustainability Award
- Alumni Sustainability Award
We need nominations that highlight initiatives that exemplify the nominees dedication to sustainability, including the categories listed for each below. There are separate google forms for each category. You can also nominate more than one person for each category.
- Impact: How will this work create lasting, positive change for sustainability at SDSU, and what is the potential for this work to inspire and influence others toward sustainable practices? Share any measurable impacts.
- Leadership: How did this student champion a unique vision for sustainability and garner support for its implementation?
- Initiative: Actions that demonstrably exceeded routine duties and advance sustainability within SDSU. How does this student truly care about sustainability?
- Dedication: Commitment to sustained efforts over time, showcasing ongoing dedication to sustainability at SDSU through outreach and awareness activities.
- Holistic Knowledge: Demonstrates an intersectional approach to sustainability that considers ethics, environment, and economics.
If you know a student that meets these criteria that you would like to nominate, please complete this google form by Friday, March 15.
- Commitment: Creates a climate of high expectations and has a demonstrated sustained commitment to sustainability principles and practices
- Action-oriented Leadership: Bridges the ideal with the practical by seeking out and shepherding creative solutions that address sustainability, operational, and financial needs. Provides leadership in finding and implementing creative solutions to solve sustainability issues with limited resources
- Collaboration: Seeks out and creates partnerships with faculty, staff, students and/or community members to understand the respective impacts and move sustainability agenda forward.
- Curiosity: Has developed a breadth and depth of knowledge regarding sustainability and operational needs of university. Will seek out experts when not knowledgeable on subject matter.
- Mentor: Strikes the balance of professionalism with empathy as a mentor and educator for staff and students.
If you know a staff member that meets these criteria that you would like to nominate, please complete this google form by Friday, March 15.
- Commitment: Demonstrates a sustained and broad commitment to sustainability principles and practices through research and creative activity, teaching, and service.
- Campus Engagement and Collaboration: Advances campus sustainability principles and practices for innovative new or existing curricular, programmatic, and/or scholarly initiatives through engagement and collaboration with faculty, students, and staff from across the university.
- Community Engagement and Collaboration: Promotes sustainability principles and practices through development of new or existing engagement, outreach, and collaborations with the broader (binational) community.
- Leadership and Mentoring: Leads by example and provides support and resources to students, faculty, and staff to empower them to become the next cohort of sustainability champions.
If you know a faculty member that meets these criteria that you would like to nominate, please complete this google form by Friday, March 15.
- Impact: How will this work create lasting, positive change for sustainability at SDSU, and what is the potential for this work to inspire and influence others toward sustainable practices? Share any measurable impacts.
- Leadership: How did this student champion a unique vision for sustainability and garner support for its implementation?
Initiative: Actions that demonstrably exceeded routine duties and advanced sustainability within SDSU. How does this student truly care about sustainability? - Dedication: Commitment to sustained efforts over time, showcasing ongoing dedication to sustainability at SDSU through outreach and awareness activities.
- Holistic Knowledge: Demonstrates an intersectional approach to sustainability that considers ethics, environment, and economics.
- Sustained Commitment: Has continued to empower the SDSU community by giving educational presentations, serving on panels, providing career support to students, utilizing their professional platforms to amplify SDSU initiatives, and embodying SDSU pride.
If you know an alumnus that meets these criteria that you would like to nominate, please complete this google form by Friday, March 15.
