MEMORANDUM
To:
IU South Bend Staff, Students, Faculty and Administrators
From:
Mike Keen, Director
Center for a Sustainable Future
Subject:
Date:
IU South Bend Student Sustainability Award
February 28, 2013
IU South Bend is committed to helping to create a sustainable future, both on campus and
in the community. Sustainability is commonly defined as “Meeting the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
In order to contribute to a sustainable future, we can all work together to:
1. Reduce and eventually eliminate our contributions to the systematic
accumulation of materials taken from the earth’s crust, i.e., fossil fuels,
metals and minerals;
2. Reduce and eventually eliminate our contributions to the systematic
accumulation of substances produced by society, i.e., synthetic chemicals
and unnatural substances such as plastics, volatile organic compounds
(VOCs), and other substance foreign to nature;
3. Reduce and eventually eliminate our contributions to the ongoing
depletion and degradation of nature, i.e., water, air, forests, soil.
4. Reduce and eventually eliminate our contributions to conditions that
systematically undermine people’s abilities to meet their own needs.
IU South Bend students have been engaged in such efforts since the 1970s, with early
individual recycling efforts. More recently, students have begun to explore more formal
and systematic opportunities for the creation of a sustainable campus community through
the Sustainability and Wellness Club and the Campus Community Garden.
In order to highlight the leading role IU South Bend students have played, and will
continue to play in our efforts to create a more sustainable future, each year the campus
recognizes one student for their outstanding contributions to sustainability at IU South
Bend. The awardee is selected by the Campus Sustainability Awards Selection
Committee and receives $250 in recognition of their efforts.
Those eligible for the award include full and part time undergraduate and graduate
students who are currently enrolled at IU South Bend.
Individuals may be nominated by any member of the IU South Bend community,
including staff, students, faculty, and administrators. Individuals may not nominate
themselves. Deadline date is Friday, March 29, 2013.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND
STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
NOMINATION FORM
NOMINEE ELGIBILITY

Nominee must be currently enrolled as a full or part time undergraduate or graduate
student at IU South Bend, and in good academic standing.
AWARD CRITERIA


Demonstrated outstanding contribution to making IU South Bend a more sustainable
campus.
In cases where more than one candidate is deemed to be equally deserving, the
candidate’s contributions to sustainability in the community also may be taken into
consideration.
NOMINEE
STUDENT ID NUMBER
EMAIL ADDRESS
PHONE
MAJOR/MINOR
GPA
REASONS FOR NOMINATION
(e.g., Evidence of outstanding contributions to sustainability at IU South Bend, including duration and impact.)
PLEASE INCLUDE ANY SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS WITH THIS FORM (i.e. letters of commendation).
*No more than THREE letters of recommendation will be considered and must be INCLUDED WITH this form.
Please return nomination form via email to:
Mike Keen, Director
Center for a Sustainable Future
mkeen@iusb.edu
520-4429
Submitted by:
(Name)
(Campus address)
(Campus phone)
Deadline is Friday, March 29, 2013